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<span class=prefix>Spec</span> William Earl Foster Jr.

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Spec William Earl Foster Jr. Veteran

Birth
Elyria, Lorain County, Ohio, USA
Death
12 Sep 1968 (aged 25)
Bà Rịa-Vũng Tàu, Vietnam
Burial
Elyria, Lorain County, Ohio, USA GPS-Latitude: 41.3326579, Longitude: -82.1298506
Memorial ID
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SP4 - E4 - Army - Selective Service
1st AVN BDE

Length of service 1 years
His tour began on Dec 11, 1967
Casualty was on Sep 12, 1968
In PHUOC TUY, SOUTH VIETNAM
NON-HOSTILE, FIXED WING - CREW
AIR LOSS, CRASH ON LAND
Body was recovered

Date: Sep 28 1968
Source: Cleveland Press; Cleveland Necrology File, Reel #109.
Notes: Sp. 4 William E. Foster Jr. A family mass for Army Sp. 4 William E. Foster, 25, killed in action in Vietnam Sept. 12, will be Monday at St. Jude Catholic Church, Elyria. Graveside services to which friends are invited, will be at Brookdale Cemetery, Oberlin Road, Elyria, at 12:15 p.m. Monday. Surviving are his parents, Mr. and Mrs. William E. Foster Sr.; brothers, Michael and Allen; a sister Judith and his maternal and paternal grandparents. His father is president of the General Industries Co. of Elyria. The family home, where friends will be received from 2-5 p.m. tomorrow, is at 184 Overbrook Road, Elyria. Mr. Foster was a great-grandson of the late Claud Foster, a Cleveland industrialist and philanthropist and a great-nephew of the former U. S. Sen. Thomas A. Burke.

Vietnam Veteran's Memorial Wall
Panel 44W - Line 37
SP4 - E4 - Army - Selective Service
1st AVN BDE

Length of service 1 years
His tour began on Dec 11, 1967
Casualty was on Sep 12, 1968
In PHUOC TUY, SOUTH VIETNAM
NON-HOSTILE, FIXED WING - CREW
AIR LOSS, CRASH ON LAND
Body was recovered

Date: Sep 28 1968
Source: Cleveland Press; Cleveland Necrology File, Reel #109.
Notes: Sp. 4 William E. Foster Jr. A family mass for Army Sp. 4 William E. Foster, 25, killed in action in Vietnam Sept. 12, will be Monday at St. Jude Catholic Church, Elyria. Graveside services to which friends are invited, will be at Brookdale Cemetery, Oberlin Road, Elyria, at 12:15 p.m. Monday. Surviving are his parents, Mr. and Mrs. William E. Foster Sr.; brothers, Michael and Allen; a sister Judith and his maternal and paternal grandparents. His father is president of the General Industries Co. of Elyria. The family home, where friends will be received from 2-5 p.m. tomorrow, is at 184 Overbrook Road, Elyria. Mr. Foster was a great-grandson of the late Claud Foster, a Cleveland industrialist and philanthropist and a great-nephew of the former U. S. Sen. Thomas A. Burke.

Vietnam Veteran's Memorial Wall
Panel 44W - Line 37


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