Funeral services for T/5 Melvin Moorhous, whose body was returned to this country from the Philippines on a United States transport two weeks ago, are to be held in Culbertson next Monday, August 30, at 2:00 p.m. This was decided upon Wednesday after his parents, Mr. and Mrs. C.F. Moorhous, received official notice from U.S. Army headquarters in Kansas City, Missouri that the body would arrive at the Breland Funeral Home in McCook on Saturday of this week.
A military escort will accompany the body here and remain until after burial has been made in the Culbertson cemetery.
The services are to be conducted under joint auspices of Moorhous-Steffen-Propp post, Veterans of Foreign Wars, and Adam Miller post of the American Legion. They will be held in the downtown village park, weather conditions permitting, or in the high school auditorium in the event of bad weather. Rev. A.L. Kohtz, pastor of St. John's Lutheran church, will preach the funeral sermon. A sound amplifying system will be used to carry the program to the large throng that is expected to assemble for the services. It is to be a full military funeral, with VFW and American Legion members in uniform.
A proclamation issued by the chairman of the Culbertson Village Board of Trustees calls upon all local business houses and other places of activity to be closed from 1:30 p.m. Monday until the end of the interment services at the cemetery.
Cpl. Moorhous was killed in battle on Debu Island in the Philippines on June 10, 1945 after he had served overseas for about two years in the army medical corps. Following the original burial in the Philippines, his body had been removed two or three times before it was brought home.
Source: The Culbertson Progress, August 26, 1948
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The body of the late T/5 Melvin A. Moorhous, returned recently to this country from the Philippine Islands where he was killed in battle on June 10, 1945, was brought to Culbertson on Monday of this week -- back home to loved ones and friends -- to a final resting place in the Culbertson cemetery, overlooking the peaceful valley where he had lived happily from infancy to young manhood.
Flags were at half-mast and all local activities at a standstill for the reburial services at 2 o'clock Monday afternoon in Culbertson's downtown village park. In the most beautiful setting, several hundred people of this village and the surrounding territory paid reverent honor with bowed heads to the memory of this gallant young soldier.
The reburial services were conducted under joint auspices of Moorhous-Steffen-Propp post, Veterans of Foreign Wars, and Adam Miller post of the American Legion. The local VFW post was named in honor of Cpl. Moorhous.
The flag-draped casket was borne to the bandstand in the park by Arvene Lenhart, Edward Sitzman, Gerald Myers, Elmer Miller, Otto Zapp, and Ervin Frecks. All of these men are overseas veterans and were either school classmates or confirmation classmates of Cpl. Moorhous. Several beautiful floral wreaths formed a background for the casket. The parents, brothers, sisters, and other relatives of the deceased were seated in front of the bandstand and at one side stood a large group of uniformed veterans and ladies of the VFW Auxiliary and American Legion Auxiliary.
The funeral sermon was delivered by Rev. A.L. Kohtz, pastor of St. John's Lutheran Church, of which Cpl. Moorhous had been a member. He was baptized in that church on December 27, 1922 and confirmed on May 9, 1937.
A trio composed of Mrs. Harry P. Fahrenbruch, Mrs. Warren Clark, and Mrs. Darold Schlegel sang "In the Garden," "Onward Christian Soldiers," and "The Star Spangled Banner" during the services and their clear, young voices were carried to everyone in the large audience by a sound amplifying system. Mrs. A.B. Steffen was piano accompanist for the singers.
At the close of the park services, a long procession of 50 or more autos wended its way slowly to the cemetery, where the final rites were conducted in an impressive manner by the VFW and American Legion Posts at a grave located near the soldiers' monument. The service was ended with three volleys by a firing squad and the sounding of taps.
The body of Cpl. Moorhous was accompanied to Culbertson by Sgt. Robert Thomas of Kansas City, Missouri who remained here to give comfort to the bereaved family until after the reburial. The Breland Funeral Chapel of McCook was most helpful to the family and to the local VFW and American Legion posts with its conscientious work in handling arrangements for the service.
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Melvin A. Moorhous, son of Charles Faye and Minnie Moorhous, was born near Culbertson on July 15, 1922 and lived in this community until called into the service of his country on October 29, 1942. He was graduated from Culbertson High School with the class of 1940.
The last two years of his army service was spent overseas as a member of the Medical Corps of the 132nd Infantry regiment of the famed Americal division. He was awarded the Silver Star and Bronze Star for gallantry and meritorious service at Bougainville as well as the Medical Valor Badge, Good Conduct Medal, Asiatic-Pacific Ribbon with two battle stars and the Philippines Liberation Bar with one battle star. The Victory Medal and Heroism Medal are yet to be awarded him.
Cpl. Moorhous was fatally wounded on Debu island in the Philippines while answering a call for a medical man to go out into the field and bring in wounded soldiers. While on this errand of mercy, he was shot in the back of the head by a Japanese sniper. He died a few hours later after being flown to a hospital in an airplane for an operation. He had attained the age of 22 years, 10 months, and 25 days.
Mourning his loss are his parents, two sisters, Mrs. LaVerne Oleson of Trenton, Nebraska and Mrs. Bethene Swartz of Thompson, Utah and four brothers, Delmar, Donald, and Keith, who live at home, and Wayne of McCook, Nebraska.
Source: The Culbertson Progress,
A military escort will accompany the body here and remain until after burial has been made in the Culbertson cemetery.
The services are to be conducted under joint auspices of Moorhous-Steffen-Propp post, Veterans of Foreign Wars, and Adam Miller post of the American Legion. They will be held in the downtown village park, weather conditions permitting, or in the high school auditorium in the event of bad weather. Rev. A.L. Kohtz, pastor of St. John's Lutheran church, will preach the funeral sermon. A sound amplifying system will be used to carry the program to the large throng that is expected to assemble for the services. It is to be a full military funeral, with VFW and American Legion members in uniform.
A proclamation issued by the chairman of the Culbertson Village Board of Trustees calls upon all local business houses and other places of activity to be closed from 1:30 p.m. Monday until the end of the interment services at the cemetery.
Cpl. Moorhous was killed in battle on Debu Island in the Philippines on June 10, 1945 after he had served overseas for about two years in the army medical corps. Following the original burial in the Philippines, his body had been removed two or three times before it was brought home.
Source: The Culbertson Progress, August 26, 1948
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The body of the late T/5 Melvin A. Moorhous, returned recently to this country from the Philippine Islands where he was killed in battle on June 10, 1945, was brought to Culbertson on Monday of this week -- back home to loved ones and friends -- to a final resting place in the Culbertson cemetery, overlooking the peaceful valley where he had lived happily from infancy to young manhood.
Flags were at half-mast and all local activities at a standstill for the reburial services at 2 o'clock Monday afternoon in Culbertson's downtown village park. In the most beautiful setting, several hundred people of this village and the surrounding territory paid reverent honor with bowed heads to the memory of this gallant young soldier.
The reburial services were conducted under joint auspices of Moorhous-Steffen-Propp post, Veterans of Foreign Wars, and Adam Miller post of the American Legion. The local VFW post was named in honor of Cpl. Moorhous.
The flag-draped casket was borne to the bandstand in the park by Arvene Lenhart, Edward Sitzman, Gerald Myers, Elmer Miller, Otto Zapp, and Ervin Frecks. All of these men are overseas veterans and were either school classmates or confirmation classmates of Cpl. Moorhous. Several beautiful floral wreaths formed a background for the casket. The parents, brothers, sisters, and other relatives of the deceased were seated in front of the bandstand and at one side stood a large group of uniformed veterans and ladies of the VFW Auxiliary and American Legion Auxiliary.
The funeral sermon was delivered by Rev. A.L. Kohtz, pastor of St. John's Lutheran Church, of which Cpl. Moorhous had been a member. He was baptized in that church on December 27, 1922 and confirmed on May 9, 1937.
A trio composed of Mrs. Harry P. Fahrenbruch, Mrs. Warren Clark, and Mrs. Darold Schlegel sang "In the Garden," "Onward Christian Soldiers," and "The Star Spangled Banner" during the services and their clear, young voices were carried to everyone in the large audience by a sound amplifying system. Mrs. A.B. Steffen was piano accompanist for the singers.
At the close of the park services, a long procession of 50 or more autos wended its way slowly to the cemetery, where the final rites were conducted in an impressive manner by the VFW and American Legion Posts at a grave located near the soldiers' monument. The service was ended with three volleys by a firing squad and the sounding of taps.
The body of Cpl. Moorhous was accompanied to Culbertson by Sgt. Robert Thomas of Kansas City, Missouri who remained here to give comfort to the bereaved family until after the reburial. The Breland Funeral Chapel of McCook was most helpful to the family and to the local VFW and American Legion posts with its conscientious work in handling arrangements for the service.
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Melvin A. Moorhous, son of Charles Faye and Minnie Moorhous, was born near Culbertson on July 15, 1922 and lived in this community until called into the service of his country on October 29, 1942. He was graduated from Culbertson High School with the class of 1940.
The last two years of his army service was spent overseas as a member of the Medical Corps of the 132nd Infantry regiment of the famed Americal division. He was awarded the Silver Star and Bronze Star for gallantry and meritorious service at Bougainville as well as the Medical Valor Badge, Good Conduct Medal, Asiatic-Pacific Ribbon with two battle stars and the Philippines Liberation Bar with one battle star. The Victory Medal and Heroism Medal are yet to be awarded him.
Cpl. Moorhous was fatally wounded on Debu island in the Philippines while answering a call for a medical man to go out into the field and bring in wounded soldiers. While on this errand of mercy, he was shot in the back of the head by a Japanese sniper. He died a few hours later after being flown to a hospital in an airplane for an operation. He had attained the age of 22 years, 10 months, and 25 days.
Mourning his loss are his parents, two sisters, Mrs. LaVerne Oleson of Trenton, Nebraska and Mrs. Bethene Swartz of Thompson, Utah and four brothers, Delmar, Donald, and Keith, who live at home, and Wayne of McCook, Nebraska.
Source: The Culbertson Progress,
Funeral services for T/5 Melvin Moorhous, whose body was returned to this country from the Philippines on a United States transport two weeks ago, are to be held in Culbertson next Monday, August 30, at 2:00 p.m. This was decided upon Wednesday after his parents, Mr. and Mrs. C.F. Moorhous, received official notice from U.S. Army headquarters in Kansas City, Missouri that the body would arrive at the Breland Funeral Home in McCook on Saturday of this week.
A military escort will accompany the body here and remain until after burial has been made in the Culbertson cemetery.
The services are to be conducted under joint auspices of Moorhous-Steffen-Propp post, Veterans of Foreign Wars, and Adam Miller post of the American Legion. They will be held in the downtown village park, weather conditions permitting, or in the high school auditorium in the event of bad weather. Rev. A.L. Kohtz, pastor of St. John's Lutheran church, will preach the funeral sermon. A sound amplifying system will be used to carry the program to the large throng that is expected to assemble for the services. It is to be a full military funeral, with VFW and American Legion members in uniform.
A proclamation issued by the chairman of the Culbertson Village Board of Trustees calls upon all local business houses and other places of activity to be closed from 1:30 p.m. Monday until the end of the interment services at the cemetery.
Cpl. Moorhous was killed in battle on Debu Island in the Philippines on June 10, 1945 after he had served overseas for about two years in the army medical corps. Following the original burial in the Philippines, his body had been removed two or three times before it was brought home.
Source: The Culbertson Progress, August 26, 1948
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The body of the late T/5 Melvin A. Moorhous, returned recently to this country from the Philippine Islands where he was killed in battle on June 10, 1945, was brought to Culbertson on Monday of this week -- back home to loved ones and friends -- to a final resting place in the Culbertson cemetery, overlooking the peaceful valley where he had lived happily from infancy to young manhood.
Flags were at half-mast and all local activities at a standstill for the reburial services at 2 o'clock Monday afternoon in Culbertson's downtown village park. In the most beautiful setting, several hundred people of this village and the surrounding territory paid reverent honor with bowed heads to the memory of this gallant young soldier.
The reburial services were conducted under joint auspices of Moorhous-Steffen-Propp post, Veterans of Foreign Wars, and Adam Miller post of the American Legion. The local VFW post was named in honor of Cpl. Moorhous.
The flag-draped casket was borne to the bandstand in the park by Arvene Lenhart, Edward Sitzman, Gerald Myers, Elmer Miller, Otto Zapp, and Ervin Frecks. All of these men are overseas veterans and were either school classmates or confirmation classmates of Cpl. Moorhous. Several beautiful floral wreaths formed a background for the casket. The parents, brothers, sisters, and other relatives of the deceased were seated in front of the bandstand and at one side stood a large group of uniformed veterans and ladies of the VFW Auxiliary and American Legion Auxiliary.
The funeral sermon was delivered by Rev. A.L. Kohtz, pastor of St. John's Lutheran Church, of which Cpl. Moorhous had been a member. He was baptized in that church on December 27, 1922 and confirmed on May 9, 1937.
A trio composed of Mrs. Harry P. Fahrenbruch, Mrs. Warren Clark, and Mrs. Darold Schlegel sang "In the Garden," "Onward Christian Soldiers," and "The Star Spangled Banner" during the services and their clear, young voices were carried to everyone in the large audience by a sound amplifying system. Mrs. A.B. Steffen was piano accompanist for the singers.
At the close of the park services, a long procession of 50 or more autos wended its way slowly to the cemetery, where the final rites were conducted in an impressive manner by the VFW and American Legion Posts at a grave located near the soldiers' monument. The service was ended with three volleys by a firing squad and the sounding of taps.
The body of Cpl. Moorhous was accompanied to Culbertson by Sgt. Robert Thomas of Kansas City, Missouri who remained here to give comfort to the bereaved family until after the reburial. The Breland Funeral Chapel of McCook was most helpful to the family and to the local VFW and American Legion posts with its conscientious work in handling arrangements for the service.
*****
Melvin A. Moorhous, son of Charles Faye and Minnie Moorhous, was born near Culbertson on July 15, 1922 and lived in this community until called into the service of his country on October 29, 1942. He was graduated from Culbertson High School with the class of 1940.
The last two years of his army service was spent overseas as a member of the Medical Corps of the 132nd Infantry regiment of the famed Americal division. He was awarded the Silver Star and Bronze Star for gallantry and meritorious service at Bougainville as well as the Medical Valor Badge, Good Conduct Medal, Asiatic-Pacific Ribbon with two battle stars and the Philippines Liberation Bar with one battle star. The Victory Medal and Heroism Medal are yet to be awarded him.
Cpl. Moorhous was fatally wounded on Debu island in the Philippines while answering a call for a medical man to go out into the field and bring in wounded soldiers. While on this errand of mercy, he was shot in the back of the head by a Japanese sniper. He died a few hours later after being flown to a hospital in an airplane for an operation. He had attained the age of 22 years, 10 months, and 25 days.
Mourning his loss are his parents, two sisters, Mrs. LaVerne Oleson of Trenton, Nebraska and Mrs. Bethene Swartz of Thompson, Utah and four brothers, Delmar, Donald, and Keith, who live at home, and Wayne of McCook, Nebraska.
Source: The Culbertson Progress,
A military escort will accompany the body here and remain until after burial has been made in the Culbertson cemetery.
The services are to be conducted under joint auspices of Moorhous-Steffen-Propp post, Veterans of Foreign Wars, and Adam Miller post of the American Legion. They will be held in the downtown village park, weather conditions permitting, or in the high school auditorium in the event of bad weather. Rev. A.L. Kohtz, pastor of St. John's Lutheran church, will preach the funeral sermon. A sound amplifying system will be used to carry the program to the large throng that is expected to assemble for the services. It is to be a full military funeral, with VFW and American Legion members in uniform.
A proclamation issued by the chairman of the Culbertson Village Board of Trustees calls upon all local business houses and other places of activity to be closed from 1:30 p.m. Monday until the end of the interment services at the cemetery.
Cpl. Moorhous was killed in battle on Debu Island in the Philippines on June 10, 1945 after he had served overseas for about two years in the army medical corps. Following the original burial in the Philippines, his body had been removed two or three times before it was brought home.
Source: The Culbertson Progress, August 26, 1948
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The body of the late T/5 Melvin A. Moorhous, returned recently to this country from the Philippine Islands where he was killed in battle on June 10, 1945, was brought to Culbertson on Monday of this week -- back home to loved ones and friends -- to a final resting place in the Culbertson cemetery, overlooking the peaceful valley where he had lived happily from infancy to young manhood.
Flags were at half-mast and all local activities at a standstill for the reburial services at 2 o'clock Monday afternoon in Culbertson's downtown village park. In the most beautiful setting, several hundred people of this village and the surrounding territory paid reverent honor with bowed heads to the memory of this gallant young soldier.
The reburial services were conducted under joint auspices of Moorhous-Steffen-Propp post, Veterans of Foreign Wars, and Adam Miller post of the American Legion. The local VFW post was named in honor of Cpl. Moorhous.
The flag-draped casket was borne to the bandstand in the park by Arvene Lenhart, Edward Sitzman, Gerald Myers, Elmer Miller, Otto Zapp, and Ervin Frecks. All of these men are overseas veterans and were either school classmates or confirmation classmates of Cpl. Moorhous. Several beautiful floral wreaths formed a background for the casket. The parents, brothers, sisters, and other relatives of the deceased were seated in front of the bandstand and at one side stood a large group of uniformed veterans and ladies of the VFW Auxiliary and American Legion Auxiliary.
The funeral sermon was delivered by Rev. A.L. Kohtz, pastor of St. John's Lutheran Church, of which Cpl. Moorhous had been a member. He was baptized in that church on December 27, 1922 and confirmed on May 9, 1937.
A trio composed of Mrs. Harry P. Fahrenbruch, Mrs. Warren Clark, and Mrs. Darold Schlegel sang "In the Garden," "Onward Christian Soldiers," and "The Star Spangled Banner" during the services and their clear, young voices were carried to everyone in the large audience by a sound amplifying system. Mrs. A.B. Steffen was piano accompanist for the singers.
At the close of the park services, a long procession of 50 or more autos wended its way slowly to the cemetery, where the final rites were conducted in an impressive manner by the VFW and American Legion Posts at a grave located near the soldiers' monument. The service was ended with three volleys by a firing squad and the sounding of taps.
The body of Cpl. Moorhous was accompanied to Culbertson by Sgt. Robert Thomas of Kansas City, Missouri who remained here to give comfort to the bereaved family until after the reburial. The Breland Funeral Chapel of McCook was most helpful to the family and to the local VFW and American Legion posts with its conscientious work in handling arrangements for the service.
*****
Melvin A. Moorhous, son of Charles Faye and Minnie Moorhous, was born near Culbertson on July 15, 1922 and lived in this community until called into the service of his country on October 29, 1942. He was graduated from Culbertson High School with the class of 1940.
The last two years of his army service was spent overseas as a member of the Medical Corps of the 132nd Infantry regiment of the famed Americal division. He was awarded the Silver Star and Bronze Star for gallantry and meritorious service at Bougainville as well as the Medical Valor Badge, Good Conduct Medal, Asiatic-Pacific Ribbon with two battle stars and the Philippines Liberation Bar with one battle star. The Victory Medal and Heroism Medal are yet to be awarded him.
Cpl. Moorhous was fatally wounded on Debu island in the Philippines while answering a call for a medical man to go out into the field and bring in wounded soldiers. While on this errand of mercy, he was shot in the back of the head by a Japanese sniper. He died a few hours later after being flown to a hospital in an airplane for an operation. He had attained the age of 22 years, 10 months, and 25 days.
Mourning his loss are his parents, two sisters, Mrs. LaVerne Oleson of Trenton, Nebraska and Mrs. Bethene Swartz of Thompson, Utah and four brothers, Delmar, Donald, and Keith, who live at home, and Wayne of McCook, Nebraska.
Source: The Culbertson Progress,
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