This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Boxwell, Engebretsen, Mahank, Witkowski, Crumb Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Ei.2ADI/2257.1 Message Board Post: Raymond A. Boxwell SGT United States Marine Corps Service Number 320342 South Bend – St. Joseph County – Indiana DOD - September 16, 1944 Missing or Buried at Sea His name is honored on the “Tablets of the Missing” at Manila American Cemetery - Philippines Purple Heart South Bend Tribune October 1, 1944 Boxwell Dies in Action Marine Sergeant Raymond A. Boxwell, aged 24, was killed in action in the Pacific area, his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Edward S. Boxwell, 1158 East Calvert Street have been notified by a War Department telegram. Overseas for 28 months, he served with the marines as a radio operator and repairman, taking part on Guadalcanal, the Solomons, New Guinea and Guam. A graduate of the 1939 class of Riley High School, he worked for his father at Boxwell’s Merchandise Company before enlisting in the Marine Corps October 16, 1941. Also surviving are a brother, Corporal Lloyd E Boxwell, with the air corps in England; a sister, Gladys, at home; a grandmother, Mrs. Gertrude Crumb, at home; and a grandfather, J.J. Boxwell of the Robertson Hotel. The attachment contains a picture and the obit for Raymond Boxwell. His father, Edward, died in 1984 in Stuart, FL. At that time his mother, Ila Boxwell and his sister Gladys Engebretsen also lived in Stuart. His brother, Lloyd, died in 1989. At that time the sister Gladys was living in NC. He had 2 daughters, Peggy Mahank of Mishawaka and Josephine Witkowski also in Mishawaka.