Final services will be held on Friday, May 28, for Maurice C. Daniels, son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Daniels of Neillsville, who died in France. This soldier, a staff sergeant, was wounded in the Normandy campaign on November 14, 1944, and died 11 days later. He was interred in France, and the remains were returned to this country for final interment, being scheduled to reach Neillsville at 4:57 a.m., Thursday May 27. He is one of 5,800 of Wisconsin's dead in World War Two, who will be brought back to the United States for interment.
The services for Staff Sergeant Daniels will be held at 2 p.m. Friday, at the Georgas Funeral Home. Participating will be the local Service company of the National Guard, the Veterans of Foreign Wars and the American Legion. Officiating will be the Rev. L.J. Chapman. Interment will be in the Neillsville City Cemetery.
Maurice Corben Daniels was born in the Town of Grant July 22, 1918. He went to local schools and spent his early manhood on the home farm. Later he worked in the CCC camp at Perkinstown, was engaged in the trucking business at Carpenter, Iowa, and finally joined the Army. After intensive training in this country, he went to England in April 1944, and throughout the following summer participated in the front line fighting in France, wearing the combat infantryman's badge.
The parents of Maurice Daniels formerly resided and Granton and now live at 140 W. 15th Street, Neillsville. Also surviving are the following brothers and sisters, Elizabeth, Mrs. Robert Canfield of R.3, Granton, Christine, Mrs. Fred Elmhorst, R. 1, Granton, Dorothy, Mrs. Henry Elmhorst, R. 4, Neillsville, S/Sgt. Frederick Daniels, who served in the Philippines in the recent war, returned to Neillsville and is now in Army service at Chanute Field, Ill.; Marie, Mrs. Robert Ratsch, Neillsville.
Marshfield News Herald; May 29 1948
The services for Staff Sergeant Daniels will be held at 2 p.m. Friday, at the Georgas Funeral Home. Participating will be the local Service company of the National Guard, the Veterans of Foreign Wars and the American Legion. Officiating will be the Rev. L.J. Chapman. Interment will be in the Neillsville City Cemetery.
Maurice Corben Daniels was born in the Town of Grant July 22, 1918. He went to local schools and spent his early manhood on the home farm. Later he worked in the CCC camp at Perkinstown, was engaged in the trucking business at Carpenter, Iowa, and finally joined the Army. After intensive training in this country, he went to England in April 1944, and throughout the following summer participated in the front line fighting in France, wearing the combat infantryman's badge.
The parents of Maurice Daniels formerly resided and Granton and now live at 140 W. 15th Street, Neillsville. Also surviving are the following brothers and sisters, Elizabeth, Mrs. Robert Canfield of R.3, Granton, Christine, Mrs. Fred Elmhorst, R. 1, Granton, Dorothy, Mrs. Henry Elmhorst, R. 4, Neillsville, S/Sgt. Frederick Daniels, who served in the Philippines in the recent war, returned to Neillsville and is now in Army service at Chanute Field, Ill.; Marie, Mrs. Robert Ratsch, Neillsville.
Marshfield News Herald; May 29 1948
Final services will be held on Friday, May 28, for Maurice C. Daniels, son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Daniels of Neillsville, who died in France. This soldier, a staff sergeant, was wounded in the Normandy campaign on November 14, 1944, and died 11 days later. He was interred in France, and the remains were returned to this country for final interment, being scheduled to reach Neillsville at 4:57 a.m., Thursday May 27. He is one of 5,800 of Wisconsin's dead in World War Two, who will be brought back to the United States for interment.
The services for Staff Sergeant Daniels will be held at 2 p.m. Friday, at the Georgas Funeral Home. Participating will be the local Service company of the National Guard, the Veterans of Foreign Wars and the American Legion. Officiating will be the Rev. L.J. Chapman. Interment will be in the Neillsville City Cemetery.
Maurice Corben Daniels was born in the Town of Grant July 22, 1918. He went to local schools and spent his early manhood on the home farm. Later he worked in the CCC camp at Perkinstown, was engaged in the trucking business at Carpenter, Iowa, and finally joined the Army. After intensive training in this country, he went to England in April 1944, and throughout the following summer participated in the front line fighting in France, wearing the combat infantryman's badge.
The parents of Maurice Daniels formerly resided and Granton and now live at 140 W. 15th Street, Neillsville. Also surviving are the following brothers and sisters, Elizabeth, Mrs. Robert Canfield of R.3, Granton, Christine, Mrs. Fred Elmhorst, R. 1, Granton, Dorothy, Mrs. Henry Elmhorst, R. 4, Neillsville, S/Sgt. Frederick Daniels, who served in the Philippines in the recent war, returned to Neillsville and is now in Army service at Chanute Field, Ill.; Marie, Mrs. Robert Ratsch, Neillsville.
Marshfield News Herald; May 29 1948
The services for Staff Sergeant Daniels will be held at 2 p.m. Friday, at the Georgas Funeral Home. Participating will be the local Service company of the National Guard, the Veterans of Foreign Wars and the American Legion. Officiating will be the Rev. L.J. Chapman. Interment will be in the Neillsville City Cemetery.
Maurice Corben Daniels was born in the Town of Grant July 22, 1918. He went to local schools and spent his early manhood on the home farm. Later he worked in the CCC camp at Perkinstown, was engaged in the trucking business at Carpenter, Iowa, and finally joined the Army. After intensive training in this country, he went to England in April 1944, and throughout the following summer participated in the front line fighting in France, wearing the combat infantryman's badge.
The parents of Maurice Daniels formerly resided and Granton and now live at 140 W. 15th Street, Neillsville. Also surviving are the following brothers and sisters, Elizabeth, Mrs. Robert Canfield of R.3, Granton, Christine, Mrs. Fred Elmhorst, R. 1, Granton, Dorothy, Mrs. Henry Elmhorst, R. 4, Neillsville, S/Sgt. Frederick Daniels, who served in the Philippines in the recent war, returned to Neillsville and is now in Army service at Chanute Field, Ill.; Marie, Mrs. Robert Ratsch, Neillsville.
Marshfield News Herald; May 29 1948
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