Military Funeral Service Held for Lieut. Mottram
Military funeral services for Lieutenant Thomas Alva Mottram, United States Army Air Forces, who died Sunday at the hospital at Camp Harahan following a heart attack suffered last Monday, will be held today at 2 p.m. from the funeral home of P.J. McMahon and Sons, 4800 Canal Street. Religious services will be conducted in the Sacred Heart of Jesus Church and interment will be in Metairie Cemetery.
Lieutenant Mottram was the son of Mr. and Mrs. William T. M. Mottram of New Orleans. During the World War he served a year in France with the engineering corps. He enlisted in the air forces last July and was trained in Colorado until he was stationed here about three months ago.
He was graduated from Jesuit High School and attended Tulane University. He was a member of the Commonwealth Edison Post No. 118 at the American Legion in Chicago, Ill.
Lieutenant Mottram is survived by his widow, the former Miss Ruth Burbank of New Orleans and Chicago; a sister, Mrs. Peter Torre Jr., and three brothers, Harold C. Mottram, Francis de L. Mottram and Oscar Mottram of Jeanerette.
Times-Picayune, Dec 15, 1942, page 2
∼1st Lt. U.S. Army, {0-290041}, World War II-Lt. Mottram died from a non-hostile incident during WWII.
Awards: American Campaign Medal, WWII Victory Medal.
Military funeral services for Lieutenant Thomas Alva Mottram, United States Army Air Forces, who died Sunday at the hospital at Camp Harahan following a heart attack suffered last Monday, will be held today at 2 p.m. from the funeral home of P.J. McMahon and Sons, 4800 Canal Street. Religious services will be conducted in the Sacred Heart of Jesus Church and interment will be in Metairie Cemetery.
Lieutenant Mottram was the son of Mr. and Mrs. William T. M. Mottram of New Orleans. During the World War he served a year in France with the engineering corps. He enlisted in the air forces last July and was trained in Colorado until he was stationed here about three months ago.
He was graduated from Jesuit High School and attended Tulane University. He was a member of the Commonwealth Edison Post No. 118 at the American Legion in Chicago, Ill.
Lieutenant Mottram is survived by his widow, the former Miss Ruth Burbank of New Orleans and Chicago; a sister, Mrs. Peter Torre Jr., and three brothers, Harold C. Mottram, Francis de L. Mottram and Oscar Mottram of Jeanerette.
Times-Picayune, Dec 15, 1942, page 2
∼1st Lt. U.S. Army, {0-290041}, World War II-Lt. Mottram died from a non-hostile incident during WWII.
Awards: American Campaign Medal, WWII Victory Medal.
Military Funeral Service Held for Lieut. Mottram
Military funeral services for Lieutenant Thomas Alva Mottram, United States Army Air Forces, who died Sunday at the hospital at Camp Harahan following a heart attack suffered last Monday, will be held today at 2 p.m. from the funeral home of P.J. McMahon and Sons, 4800 Canal Street. Religious services will be conducted in the Sacred Heart of Jesus Church and interment will be in Metairie Cemetery.
Lieutenant Mottram was the son of Mr. and Mrs. William T. M. Mottram of New Orleans. During the World War he served a year in France with the engineering corps. He enlisted in the air forces last July and was trained in Colorado until he was stationed here about three months ago.
He was graduated from Jesuit High School and attended Tulane University. He was a member of the Commonwealth Edison Post No. 118 at the American Legion in Chicago, Ill.
Lieutenant Mottram is survived by his widow, the former Miss Ruth Burbank of New Orleans and Chicago; a sister, Mrs. Peter Torre Jr., and three brothers, Harold C. Mottram, Francis de L. Mottram and Oscar Mottram of Jeanerette.
Times-Picayune, Dec 15, 1942, page 2
∼1st Lt. U.S. Army, {0-290041}, World War II-Lt. Mottram died from a non-hostile incident during WWII.
Awards: American Campaign Medal, WWII Victory Medal.
Military funeral services for Lieutenant Thomas Alva Mottram, United States Army Air Forces, who died Sunday at the hospital at Camp Harahan following a heart attack suffered last Monday, will be held today at 2 p.m. from the funeral home of P.J. McMahon and Sons, 4800 Canal Street. Religious services will be conducted in the Sacred Heart of Jesus Church and interment will be in Metairie Cemetery.
Lieutenant Mottram was the son of Mr. and Mrs. William T. M. Mottram of New Orleans. During the World War he served a year in France with the engineering corps. He enlisted in the air forces last July and was trained in Colorado until he was stationed here about three months ago.
He was graduated from Jesuit High School and attended Tulane University. He was a member of the Commonwealth Edison Post No. 118 at the American Legion in Chicago, Ill.
Lieutenant Mottram is survived by his widow, the former Miss Ruth Burbank of New Orleans and Chicago; a sister, Mrs. Peter Torre Jr., and three brothers, Harold C. Mottram, Francis de L. Mottram and Oscar Mottram of Jeanerette.
Times-Picayune, Dec 15, 1942, page 2
∼1st Lt. U.S. Army, {0-290041}, World War II-Lt. Mottram died from a non-hostile incident during WWII.
Awards: American Campaign Medal, WWII Victory Medal.
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