Marines and brothers Francis Clayton Mostek and Raymond Mostek both died in World War II.
Francis was a gunnery private first class on the U.S.S. Arizona when he was killed in the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Dec. 7, 1941.
Francis was born in North Loup, Nebraska, on Oct. 17, 1919. The family moved to Wyoming in 1935 and then to Dover, Idaho, in 1937. That same year his father, Charles, was killed by a falling tree while working in the woods. Francis enlisted in the Marines on March 1, 1940.
Raymond, a private, died in the battle of the Tarawa Atoll in the Gilbert Islands, Nov. 20, 1943.
Their mother, Sophia had two other sons who survived the war -- Clement in the Army Air Corps and Lawrence in the Army. But her grief was compounded again in 1947 when Lawrence was killed in a logging truck accident.
A 5th son, Howard Dean, served in the Marines during the Korean War.
Sources: Northern Idaho News; Sandpoint (Idaho) News-Bulletin; Sandpoint Daily Bee; Bonner County (Idaho) Daily Bee; Census; Marine muster rolls. Marine photograph. This profile was researched and written on behalf of the U.S.S. Arizona Mall Memorial at the University of Arizona.
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Francis was a gunnery private first class on the U.S.S. Arizona when he was killed in the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Dec. 7, 1941.
Francis was born in North Loup, Nebraska, on Oct. 17, 1919. The family moved to Wyoming in 1935 and then to Dover, Idaho, in 1937. That same year his father, Charles, was killed by a falling tree while working in the woods. Francis enlisted in the Marines on March 1, 1940.
Raymond, a private, died in the battle of the Tarawa Atoll in the Gilbert Islands, Nov. 20, 1943.
Their mother, Sophia had two other sons who survived the war -- Clement in the Army Air Corps and Lawrence in the Army. But her grief was compounded again in 1947 when Lawrence was killed in a logging truck accident.
A 5th son, Howard Dean, served in the Marines during the Korean War.
Sources: Northern Idaho News; Sandpoint (Idaho) News-Bulletin; Sandpoint Daily Bee; Bonner County (Idaho) Daily Bee; Census; Marine muster rolls. Marine photograph. This profile was researched and written on behalf of the U.S.S. Arizona Mall Memorial at the University of Arizona.
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Entered the service from Washington.
Marines and brothers Francis Clayton Mostek and Raymond Mostek both died in World War II.
Francis was a gunnery private first class on the U.S.S. Arizona when he was killed in the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Dec. 7, 1941.
Francis was born in North Loup, Nebraska, on Oct. 17, 1919. The family moved to Wyoming in 1935 and then to Dover, Idaho, in 1937. That same year his father, Charles, was killed by a falling tree while working in the woods. Francis enlisted in the Marines on March 1, 1940.
Raymond, a private, died in the battle of the Tarawa Atoll in the Gilbert Islands, Nov. 20, 1943.
Their mother, Sophia had two other sons who survived the war -- Clement in the Army Air Corps and Lawrence in the Army. But her grief was compounded again in 1947 when Lawrence was killed in a logging truck accident.
A 5th son, Howard Dean, served in the Marines during the Korean War.
Sources: Northern Idaho News; Sandpoint (Idaho) News-Bulletin; Sandpoint Daily Bee; Bonner County (Idaho) Daily Bee; Census; Marine muster rolls. Marine photograph. This profile was researched and written on behalf of the U.S.S. Arizona Mall Memorial at the University of Arizona.
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Entered the service from Washington.
Francis was a gunnery private first class on the U.S.S. Arizona when he was killed in the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Dec. 7, 1941.
Francis was born in North Loup, Nebraska, on Oct. 17, 1919. The family moved to Wyoming in 1935 and then to Dover, Idaho, in 1937. That same year his father, Charles, was killed by a falling tree while working in the woods. Francis enlisted in the Marines on March 1, 1940.
Raymond, a private, died in the battle of the Tarawa Atoll in the Gilbert Islands, Nov. 20, 1943.
Their mother, Sophia had two other sons who survived the war -- Clement in the Army Air Corps and Lawrence in the Army. But her grief was compounded again in 1947 when Lawrence was killed in a logging truck accident.
A 5th son, Howard Dean, served in the Marines during the Korean War.
Sources: Northern Idaho News; Sandpoint (Idaho) News-Bulletin; Sandpoint Daily Bee; Bonner County (Idaho) Daily Bee; Census; Marine muster rolls. Marine photograph. This profile was researched and written on behalf of the U.S.S. Arizona Mall Memorial at the University of Arizona.
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Entered the service from Washington.
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