Son of Benjamin E Durst and Laura Langehennig. Killed in action during World War II while serving the United States Army.
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PFC. Wilburn Durst Reported Killed in Action in Belgium, January 18,1945
Pfc. Wilburn Durst, 26, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ben Durst and husband of the former Miss Esther Kott, daughter of Mrs. Louis Kott, has been listed by the War Department as killed in action,somewhere in Belgium on January 18, 1945. Mrs. Durst was advised of her husband's death by the War Department last Thursday.
Pfc. Durst entered the army from San Antonio on March 14, 1944. He had been employed in the Alamo City for several years by the San Antonio Transit Company, driving one of their busses in the city.
After several months of training at Camp Blanding, Florida, he was at home in Fredericksburg for a short furlough the latter part of July. In August he left for overseas and was with the fighting forces on the front lines since last fall. He had previously been in France, then Germany, and at the time he has been reported as Killed in action he was somewhere in Belgium.
Deceased is survived by his wife, whom he married on Jan. 1, 1940, his parents, and a sister, Miss Myrtle Durst, of Fredericksburg. He is a gradate of Fredericksburg High School, class of 1934. He would have observed his 27th. birthday on Feb. 26, this month.
Pfc. Wilburn Durst is the 17th Gillespie County man to have paid the supreme sacrifice while in the service of his Country during the present World War II.
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~txgilles/DurstWilburnobit.html
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PFC. Wilburn Durst Reported Killed in Action in Belgium, January 18,1945
Pfc. Wilburn Durst, 26, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ben Durst and husband of the former Miss Esther Kott, daughter of Mrs. Louis Kott, has been listed by the War Department as killed in action,somewhere in Belgium on January 18, 1945. Mrs. Durst was advised of her husband's death by the War Department last Thursday.
Pfc. Durst entered the army from San Antonio on March 14, 1944. He had been employed in the Alamo City for several years by the San Antonio Transit Company, driving one of their busses in the city.
After several months of training at Camp Blanding, Florida, he was at home in Fredericksburg for a short furlough the latter part of July. In August he left for overseas and was with the fighting forces on the front lines since last fall. He had previously been in France, then Germany, and at the time he has been reported as Killed in action he was somewhere in Belgium.
Deceased is survived by his wife, whom he married on Jan. 1, 1940, his parents, and a sister, Miss Myrtle Durst, of Fredericksburg. He is a gradate of Fredericksburg High School, class of 1934. He would have observed his 27th. birthday on Feb. 26, this month.
Pfc. Wilburn Durst is the 17th Gillespie County man to have paid the supreme sacrifice while in the service of his Country during the present World War II.
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~txgilles/DurstWilburnobit.html
Son of Benjamin E Durst and Laura Langehennig. Killed in action during World War II while serving the United States Army.
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PFC. Wilburn Durst Reported Killed in Action in Belgium, January 18,1945
Pfc. Wilburn Durst, 26, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ben Durst and husband of the former Miss Esther Kott, daughter of Mrs. Louis Kott, has been listed by the War Department as killed in action,somewhere in Belgium on January 18, 1945. Mrs. Durst was advised of her husband's death by the War Department last Thursday.
Pfc. Durst entered the army from San Antonio on March 14, 1944. He had been employed in the Alamo City for several years by the San Antonio Transit Company, driving one of their busses in the city.
After several months of training at Camp Blanding, Florida, he was at home in Fredericksburg for a short furlough the latter part of July. In August he left for overseas and was with the fighting forces on the front lines since last fall. He had previously been in France, then Germany, and at the time he has been reported as Killed in action he was somewhere in Belgium.
Deceased is survived by his wife, whom he married on Jan. 1, 1940, his parents, and a sister, Miss Myrtle Durst, of Fredericksburg. He is a gradate of Fredericksburg High School, class of 1934. He would have observed his 27th. birthday on Feb. 26, this month.
Pfc. Wilburn Durst is the 17th Gillespie County man to have paid the supreme sacrifice while in the service of his Country during the present World War II.
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~txgilles/DurstWilburnobit.html
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PFC. Wilburn Durst Reported Killed in Action in Belgium, January 18,1945
Pfc. Wilburn Durst, 26, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ben Durst and husband of the former Miss Esther Kott, daughter of Mrs. Louis Kott, has been listed by the War Department as killed in action,somewhere in Belgium on January 18, 1945. Mrs. Durst was advised of her husband's death by the War Department last Thursday.
Pfc. Durst entered the army from San Antonio on March 14, 1944. He had been employed in the Alamo City for several years by the San Antonio Transit Company, driving one of their busses in the city.
After several months of training at Camp Blanding, Florida, he was at home in Fredericksburg for a short furlough the latter part of July. In August he left for overseas and was with the fighting forces on the front lines since last fall. He had previously been in France, then Germany, and at the time he has been reported as Killed in action he was somewhere in Belgium.
Deceased is survived by his wife, whom he married on Jan. 1, 1940, his parents, and a sister, Miss Myrtle Durst, of Fredericksburg. He is a gradate of Fredericksburg High School, class of 1934. He would have observed his 27th. birthday on Feb. 26, this month.
Pfc. Wilburn Durst is the 17th Gillespie County man to have paid the supreme sacrifice while in the service of his Country during the present World War II.
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~txgilles/DurstWilburnobit.html
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