[Waterloo Daily Courier, Monday, April 20, 1942, Waterloo, Iowa]
Funeral services for Marion Hill, 21-year-old member of the United States Marine Corps who died March 27 from pneumonia contracted during a "near-drowning" somewhere in the Pacific ocean, will be held at 2 p. m. Wednesday at Union Gospel Church, Thirteenth and Jefferson Streets, by Rev. Ivan C. Bachtell, pastor.
Burial will be in Elmwood Cemetery, with Becker-Chapman post of the American Legion in charge of services at the grave.
The body, which is to arrive in Waterloo at 10:25 a. m. Tuesday, will be taken to the Parrott & Wood Funeral Home. It will be taken to the church at 1 p. m. Wednesday and will lie in state there until time for the services.
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[Waterloo Daily Courier, Tuesday, April 21, 1942, Waterloo, Iowa]
The first body brought to Waterloo from a war service death overseas in the present war reached here at 10:25 a. m. Tuesday.
There was a tense, dramatic moment as the large gray case containing the casket of Marion Hill, 21, who died somewhere in the Pacific area, was unloaded at the Chicago Great Western railroad depot.
Nearby, sobbing, were groups of relatives and friends. Among them were his father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. Hans C. Hill, 1223 Bluff Street. Accompanied by Escort, Private First Class Robert H. Peterson, a marine from the San Francisco naval base, accompanied the body as escort, bringing with him official papers to open and read to the bereaved parents.
At Parrott & Wood funeral home the marine escort draped an American flag over the casket as tribute to his fallen fellow-soldier.
Hill died of pneumonia March 27 at an unrevealed station in the Pacific.
Nearly Drowned Earlier. -- He was known to have "nearly drowned" earlier in the year whether in an accident or a sinking of a vessel. A letter mentioned the incident, and said "two buddies" figured in his rescue. Relatives here have not been informed whether there was any immediate connection between the near-drowning and the pneumonia.
The casket was opened here only for viewing of the body by several persons designated by the parents to verify the identification of the body as that of their son.
Private First Class Peterson will remain for funeral and burial services Wednesday afternoon. His instructions provide he is to give the large flag that covers the casket to Hill's mother after the services. Peterson, of Camp Douglas, Wis., must return immediately to the San Francisco base where he is stationed. Military escorts, he said, must be one rank higher than that held by the soldier whose body is being accompanied, except for exceptions frequently made to allow a close friend to accompany the body as escort.
Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday at Union Gospel Church, Thirteenth and Jefferson Street, conducted by Rev. Ivan Bachtell, pastor.
Burial will be in Elmwood Cemetery, where members of Becker- Chapman post, American Legion, will have charge of military rites.
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Marion's birth/death information was provided courtesy of Find A Grave member Atolljourney. Thank you
Funeral services for Marion Hill, 21-year-old member of the United States Marine Corps who died March 27 from pneumonia contracted during a "near-drowning" somewhere in the Pacific ocean, will be held at 2 p. m. Wednesday at Union Gospel Church, Thirteenth and Jefferson Streets, by Rev. Ivan C. Bachtell, pastor.
Burial will be in Elmwood Cemetery, with Becker-Chapman post of the American Legion in charge of services at the grave.
The body, which is to arrive in Waterloo at 10:25 a. m. Tuesday, will be taken to the Parrott & Wood Funeral Home. It will be taken to the church at 1 p. m. Wednesday and will lie in state there until time for the services.
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[Waterloo Daily Courier, Tuesday, April 21, 1942, Waterloo, Iowa]
The first body brought to Waterloo from a war service death overseas in the present war reached here at 10:25 a. m. Tuesday.
There was a tense, dramatic moment as the large gray case containing the casket of Marion Hill, 21, who died somewhere in the Pacific area, was unloaded at the Chicago Great Western railroad depot.
Nearby, sobbing, were groups of relatives and friends. Among them were his father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. Hans C. Hill, 1223 Bluff Street. Accompanied by Escort, Private First Class Robert H. Peterson, a marine from the San Francisco naval base, accompanied the body as escort, bringing with him official papers to open and read to the bereaved parents.
At Parrott & Wood funeral home the marine escort draped an American flag over the casket as tribute to his fallen fellow-soldier.
Hill died of pneumonia March 27 at an unrevealed station in the Pacific.
Nearly Drowned Earlier. -- He was known to have "nearly drowned" earlier in the year whether in an accident or a sinking of a vessel. A letter mentioned the incident, and said "two buddies" figured in his rescue. Relatives here have not been informed whether there was any immediate connection between the near-drowning and the pneumonia.
The casket was opened here only for viewing of the body by several persons designated by the parents to verify the identification of the body as that of their son.
Private First Class Peterson will remain for funeral and burial services Wednesday afternoon. His instructions provide he is to give the large flag that covers the casket to Hill's mother after the services. Peterson, of Camp Douglas, Wis., must return immediately to the San Francisco base where he is stationed. Military escorts, he said, must be one rank higher than that held by the soldier whose body is being accompanied, except for exceptions frequently made to allow a close friend to accompany the body as escort.
Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday at Union Gospel Church, Thirteenth and Jefferson Street, conducted by Rev. Ivan Bachtell, pastor.
Burial will be in Elmwood Cemetery, where members of Becker- Chapman post, American Legion, will have charge of military rites.
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Marion's birth/death information was provided courtesy of Find A Grave member Atolljourney. Thank you
[Waterloo Daily Courier, Monday, April 20, 1942, Waterloo, Iowa]
Funeral services for Marion Hill, 21-year-old member of the United States Marine Corps who died March 27 from pneumonia contracted during a "near-drowning" somewhere in the Pacific ocean, will be held at 2 p. m. Wednesday at Union Gospel Church, Thirteenth and Jefferson Streets, by Rev. Ivan C. Bachtell, pastor.
Burial will be in Elmwood Cemetery, with Becker-Chapman post of the American Legion in charge of services at the grave.
The body, which is to arrive in Waterloo at 10:25 a. m. Tuesday, will be taken to the Parrott & Wood Funeral Home. It will be taken to the church at 1 p. m. Wednesday and will lie in state there until time for the services.
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[Waterloo Daily Courier, Tuesday, April 21, 1942, Waterloo, Iowa]
The first body brought to Waterloo from a war service death overseas in the present war reached here at 10:25 a. m. Tuesday.
There was a tense, dramatic moment as the large gray case containing the casket of Marion Hill, 21, who died somewhere in the Pacific area, was unloaded at the Chicago Great Western railroad depot.
Nearby, sobbing, were groups of relatives and friends. Among them were his father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. Hans C. Hill, 1223 Bluff Street. Accompanied by Escort, Private First Class Robert H. Peterson, a marine from the San Francisco naval base, accompanied the body as escort, bringing with him official papers to open and read to the bereaved parents.
At Parrott & Wood funeral home the marine escort draped an American flag over the casket as tribute to his fallen fellow-soldier.
Hill died of pneumonia March 27 at an unrevealed station in the Pacific.
Nearly Drowned Earlier. -- He was known to have "nearly drowned" earlier in the year whether in an accident or a sinking of a vessel. A letter mentioned the incident, and said "two buddies" figured in his rescue. Relatives here have not been informed whether there was any immediate connection between the near-drowning and the pneumonia.
The casket was opened here only for viewing of the body by several persons designated by the parents to verify the identification of the body as that of their son.
Private First Class Peterson will remain for funeral and burial services Wednesday afternoon. His instructions provide he is to give the large flag that covers the casket to Hill's mother after the services. Peterson, of Camp Douglas, Wis., must return immediately to the San Francisco base where he is stationed. Military escorts, he said, must be one rank higher than that held by the soldier whose body is being accompanied, except for exceptions frequently made to allow a close friend to accompany the body as escort.
Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday at Union Gospel Church, Thirteenth and Jefferson Street, conducted by Rev. Ivan Bachtell, pastor.
Burial will be in Elmwood Cemetery, where members of Becker- Chapman post, American Legion, will have charge of military rites.
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Marion's birth/death information was provided courtesy of Find A Grave member Atolljourney. Thank you
Funeral services for Marion Hill, 21-year-old member of the United States Marine Corps who died March 27 from pneumonia contracted during a "near-drowning" somewhere in the Pacific ocean, will be held at 2 p. m. Wednesday at Union Gospel Church, Thirteenth and Jefferson Streets, by Rev. Ivan C. Bachtell, pastor.
Burial will be in Elmwood Cemetery, with Becker-Chapman post of the American Legion in charge of services at the grave.
The body, which is to arrive in Waterloo at 10:25 a. m. Tuesday, will be taken to the Parrott & Wood Funeral Home. It will be taken to the church at 1 p. m. Wednesday and will lie in state there until time for the services.
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[Waterloo Daily Courier, Tuesday, April 21, 1942, Waterloo, Iowa]
The first body brought to Waterloo from a war service death overseas in the present war reached here at 10:25 a. m. Tuesday.
There was a tense, dramatic moment as the large gray case containing the casket of Marion Hill, 21, who died somewhere in the Pacific area, was unloaded at the Chicago Great Western railroad depot.
Nearby, sobbing, were groups of relatives and friends. Among them were his father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. Hans C. Hill, 1223 Bluff Street. Accompanied by Escort, Private First Class Robert H. Peterson, a marine from the San Francisco naval base, accompanied the body as escort, bringing with him official papers to open and read to the bereaved parents.
At Parrott & Wood funeral home the marine escort draped an American flag over the casket as tribute to his fallen fellow-soldier.
Hill died of pneumonia March 27 at an unrevealed station in the Pacific.
Nearly Drowned Earlier. -- He was known to have "nearly drowned" earlier in the year whether in an accident or a sinking of a vessel. A letter mentioned the incident, and said "two buddies" figured in his rescue. Relatives here have not been informed whether there was any immediate connection between the near-drowning and the pneumonia.
The casket was opened here only for viewing of the body by several persons designated by the parents to verify the identification of the body as that of their son.
Private First Class Peterson will remain for funeral and burial services Wednesday afternoon. His instructions provide he is to give the large flag that covers the casket to Hill's mother after the services. Peterson, of Camp Douglas, Wis., must return immediately to the San Francisco base where he is stationed. Military escorts, he said, must be one rank higher than that held by the soldier whose body is being accompanied, except for exceptions frequently made to allow a close friend to accompany the body as escort.
Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday at Union Gospel Church, Thirteenth and Jefferson Street, conducted by Rev. Ivan Bachtell, pastor.
Burial will be in Elmwood Cemetery, where members of Becker- Chapman post, American Legion, will have charge of military rites.
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Marion's birth/death information was provided courtesy of Find A Grave member Atolljourney. Thank you
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