U. S. Army Service No. (ASN): #35844141
Enlistment Date: 06/26/1944
F Company, 134th Infantry Regiment, 35th Infantry Division
Howard F. Jurden is listed as Killed In Action in the 1946 Army and Army Air Forces Personnel Casualty List for Washington County, Ohio.
U.S., World War II Draft Cards Young Men, 1940-1947, lists his residence as R.F.D. #2, Marietta, Washington County, Ohio. Contact person listed is Howard M. Jurden of same address. Student.
U.S., Headstone Applications for Military Veterans, 1925-1970, lists form signed for by Howard Jurden of R.F.D. #2, Marietta, Ohio on 05/07/1949.
Washington County, Ohio, U.S., Newspaper Obituaries, 1884-2013, on ancestry.com lists the following obituary:
SOLDIER'S FUNERAL
The body of Pvt. Howard Francis Jurden, 19, Churchtown, casualty of World War II, arrived in Marietta, Tuesday, and funeral services will be held Thursday at 9 a.m. at the St. John the Baptist church, Churchtown, of which the young man was a member. Burial will be in the cemetery adjoining the church, and Marietta Post No. 1, American Legion, and Washington County Post No. 5108, Veterans of Foreign Wars, will accord military honors. (4/21/1949)
Pvt. Jurden was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Howard M. Jurden of Churchtown, and was born Dec. 25, 1925. He graduated in 1944 from Marietta high school and was shortly afterwards inducted into the Army. He received his basic training at Ft. McClellan, Ala., and then was sent to Ft. George Meade, Md., from where he was sent overseas. He landed in France Dec. 16, 1944, and lost his life two weeks later Jan. 1, 1945, in the Battle of the Bulge. Pvt. Jurden was awarded the Purple Heart posthumously.
Survivors are: his parents and five sisters, Mrs. Clifford Fleming of Columbus; Mrs. Jack Malone of Williamstown, W. Va.; Miss Mary Ellen Jurden of Marietta, and Patricia Ann and Priscilla Jurden of the family home. Frank Schwendeman of Waterford Rt 1, is the grandfather.
***I would like to thank Jack Duffey Find A Grave ID 47214204 for creating this memorial and also adding his gravesite photo to it***
***I would like to thank Diann Find A Grave ID 49251620 for updating the middle name and birth/death location information on this memorial***
U. S. Army Service No. (ASN): #35844141
Enlistment Date: 06/26/1944
F Company, 134th Infantry Regiment, 35th Infantry Division
Howard F. Jurden is listed as Killed In Action in the 1946 Army and Army Air Forces Personnel Casualty List for Washington County, Ohio.
U.S., World War II Draft Cards Young Men, 1940-1947, lists his residence as R.F.D. #2, Marietta, Washington County, Ohio. Contact person listed is Howard M. Jurden of same address. Student.
U.S., Headstone Applications for Military Veterans, 1925-1970, lists form signed for by Howard Jurden of R.F.D. #2, Marietta, Ohio on 05/07/1949.
Washington County, Ohio, U.S., Newspaper Obituaries, 1884-2013, on ancestry.com lists the following obituary:
SOLDIER'S FUNERAL
The body of Pvt. Howard Francis Jurden, 19, Churchtown, casualty of World War II, arrived in Marietta, Tuesday, and funeral services will be held Thursday at 9 a.m. at the St. John the Baptist church, Churchtown, of which the young man was a member. Burial will be in the cemetery adjoining the church, and Marietta Post No. 1, American Legion, and Washington County Post No. 5108, Veterans of Foreign Wars, will accord military honors. (4/21/1949)
Pvt. Jurden was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Howard M. Jurden of Churchtown, and was born Dec. 25, 1925. He graduated in 1944 from Marietta high school and was shortly afterwards inducted into the Army. He received his basic training at Ft. McClellan, Ala., and then was sent to Ft. George Meade, Md., from where he was sent overseas. He landed in France Dec. 16, 1944, and lost his life two weeks later Jan. 1, 1945, in the Battle of the Bulge. Pvt. Jurden was awarded the Purple Heart posthumously.
Survivors are: his parents and five sisters, Mrs. Clifford Fleming of Columbus; Mrs. Jack Malone of Williamstown, W. Va.; Miss Mary Ellen Jurden of Marietta, and Patricia Ann and Priscilla Jurden of the family home. Frank Schwendeman of Waterford Rt 1, is the grandfather.
***I would like to thank Jack Duffey Find A Grave ID 47214204 for creating this memorial and also adding his gravesite photo to it***
***I would like to thank Diann Find A Grave ID 49251620 for updating the middle name and birth/death location information on this memorial***
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