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PFC William R. Younger
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Rank / Rate PFC War of Service Korean Date of birth Aug 9, 1929 Place of birth / home town LIMA Family Members High School Enlistment Date Branch Army Service Number RA15412853 Unit / Ship / duty Station Eighth Cavalry Regiment B CO 1 First Cavalry division Date of Casuality Jan 26, 1951 Cause of Death or Status KIA Place of Incident Hill 256 in the vicinity of Yengi Place of Burial or Memorial Memorial Park Cemetery of Lima Awards  Links to More Information [ Find A Grave Memorial# 65653632 ] Do you have information about this veteran we don’t have? Click Here --→ https://allencountyveterans.org/contact |
| ENLISTED IN LIMA, OHIO – Hero's Body Returning On Tuesday The body of Pfc. William R. Younger, 21, who was killed Jan. 26 in Korea, will arrive in Lima at 7:45 a.m. Tuesday aboard a Pennsylvania railroad train from San Francisco. The son of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Lawrence, Route 6, Pfc. Younger was killed while attacking Hill 256 in the vicinity of Yengi. He was a member of The Eighth regiment, First Cavalry division. During the early part of the Korean war, he was returned to Japan for hospitalization after receiving minor wounds but reentered the Korean fighting in December, 1950. A former employee of the Hume elevator, Pfc. Younger attended Shawnee high school. He was a native of Lima. Besides his parents, his step-grandfather, Carl Lawrence, Route 1; Two step-brothers, Richard Lawrence, at home, and Pvt. Donald Lawrence, Sampson Air Force base, Geneva, N.Y., and two step-sisters, June and Pauline Lawrence, both at home, also survive. The body will be removed from the station to the Lawrence home on Route 6, there to remain until services at 2 p.m. Thursday in the First Church of God. The Rev. Dewayne Bell will officiate. Burial will be in Memorial Park cemetery. Arrangements are in charge of Chiles and Son funeral home. |
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