Getting ready for Memorial Day......... DUNLEVY SOLDIER DIES IN HOSPITAL AT WASHINGTON Corporal Gargon, Overseas Six Months, Succumbs to Illness Corporal Frank GARGON, aged 20, of Dunlevy, died in the Walter Reed hospital, at Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, August 22, 1944, at 10:43 p.m., after a serious illness of seven weeks. He was inducted into the armed service on March 6, 1943, and had his basic training at Kearney, Neb. He left for overseas duty sometime in January last, and had been serving there for six months, somewhere in England. He was attached to the medical Air Evacuation Transportation Squadron of the Ninth Air Force. He participated in the invasion on D-Day, evacuating wounded soldiers from France to England. He was returned to the U.S. for hospitalization when he became ill. He was well liked by his fellow civilian friends as well as by his soldier friends and officers. His remains have been returned to Dunlevy from Washington, D.C. Funeral services have already been announced for Monday. He was born March 24, 1924, and leaves his mother, Josephine GARGON; five brothers, Thomas of Belle Vernon; Carmen of Dunlevy; Anthony, of Charleroi; Russell and Jack of Connecticut; and three sisters, Cherrie, of Dunlevy, and Rose and Jennie of South Norwalk, Conn. (Picture of Corporal Frank Gargon accompanies obituary.) >From The Charleroi Mail Saturday, August 26, 1944 Page 1 >From Page 8 of the same issue: Funeral Notice GARGON�Corporal Frank GARGON, age 20 years, of Dunlevy, died in Walter Reed Hospital, August 22, 1944 at 10:30 p.m., after an illness of five weeks. Friends will be received at the home of his sister, Mrs. Cherie HOLMAN of Dunlevy. Services will be held Monday, August 28, 1944, at 10 a.m. in the Mother of Sorrows church. Father Nicholas BIONDI, of the Mother of Sorrows church, will be in charge of services. Chas. L. and Edwin MELENYZER are funeral directors. Eva ===== Eva Dayle Zippay Tallahassee, Florida evadayle@yahoo.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/