S/SGT US ARMY WORLD WAR II 4th Infantry Division 12th Infantry Regiment Company D
KILLED IN LUXEMBOURG
RETURNING BODY OF SGT. LOWELL SMITH The casketed remains of S-Sgt. Lowell Smith, 27, will arrive in Wayne City at 2:13 p.m. Friday at the Southern depot and will be taken to Combs Chapel to remain until the funeral hour. Military services will be held Sunday at 2:00 p.m. from the Olive Branch Church, with the Rev. Hulbert Perry and the Rev. Lloyd Trotter officiating. Internment will be in the cemetery nearby. S-Sgt. Smith, son of Mrs. Daisy Smith south of Wayne City, was killed January 21, 1945 at Luxembourg. Surviving are his mother; three brothers, Vern and Roman Smith of Chicago and Mike Smith of Youngtown, Ohio, and two sisters, Mrs. Grace Peer of Bell Prairie and Mrs. Ruby Turner of Dahlgren.
Contributor: Laurie Selpien (47715624)
Suggested edit: the history of the 12th infantry has the unit in this vicinity in the days leading up to the 21 of Jan 45. Lowell was in Company D of the 12th infantry starting in Jan 1 1945
Contributor: Lowell Trotter (51173649)
S/SGT US ARMY WORLD WAR II 4th Infantry Division 12th Infantry Regiment Company D
KILLED IN LUXEMBOURG
RETURNING BODY OF SGT. LOWELL SMITH The casketed remains of S-Sgt. Lowell Smith, 27, will arrive in Wayne City at 2:13 p.m. Friday at the Southern depot and will be taken to Combs Chapel to remain until the funeral hour. Military services will be held Sunday at 2:00 p.m. from the Olive Branch Church, with the Rev. Hulbert Perry and the Rev. Lloyd Trotter officiating. Internment will be in the cemetery nearby. S-Sgt. Smith, son of Mrs. Daisy Smith south of Wayne City, was killed January 21, 1945 at Luxembourg. Surviving are his mother; three brothers, Vern and Roman Smith of Chicago and Mike Smith of Youngtown, Ohio, and two sisters, Mrs. Grace Peer of Bell Prairie and Mrs. Ruby Turner of Dahlgren.
Contributor: Laurie Selpien (47715624)
Suggested edit: the history of the 12th infantry has the unit in this vicinity in the days leading up to the 21 of Jan 45. Lowell was in Company D of the 12th infantry starting in Jan 1 1945
Contributor: Lowell Trotter (51173649)
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