This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Brewer, Brown, Bush, Farmer, Lingle, MacDonald, Metzger Classification: Death Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Hi.2ADI/1783 Message Board Post: Lafayette Leader Friday, March 26, 1948 Lafayette, Indiana 7 AREA WAR DEAD COMING HOME Bodies of seven Marines from the Lafayette area, killed in action in the Pacific, arrived in Oakland, Calif., Monday morning aboard the Army transport Walter W. Schwnek. They are: Pfc. Joseph P. Metzger, Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph F. Metzger, by-pass 52 Pvt. Gerald L. Brewer, son of Mr. and Mrs. Newell A. Brewer, Route 2 Pvt. Robert Lingle, whose next of kin is Mrs.Ruth Lingle, 1124 North Tenth street Pfc. James E. Brown, next of kin Mrs. Mildred F. Brown, 759 Catterlin street, Frankfort Cpl. James Bush, son of Mr. and Mrs. Wesley Bush, Williamsport Route 3 Pfc. Russell Farmer, son of Clyde Farmer, Chalmers George B. MacDonald, next of kin Mrs. Sarah A. MacDonald, Monon Route 1