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Carlson Frum Post hosted their annual Memorial Day program to remember those veterans who took time from their daily lives to defend our country and fight for freedom. The veterans rememberd on Memorial Day have departed earth but have not departed our hearts and memories.
The morning began as the color guard and other available veterans held a 21-gun salute in the Danbury cemeteries. The crowd then proceded to Dana Hall where Chaplin Bill Durst began the program with a prayer. Musical selections were performed by the MVAO High School Band and by Bob Barry during the program. Leon Ortner read the roll call of the dead members of Carlson Frum Post. The keynote speaker was Pastor Len Garrisen, pastor at Danbury United Methodist Church. The morning closed with the benediction by Chaplin Durst.
Photos of the Memorial Day events are by Cindy Armstrong and Jean Barry. Thanks, ladies!
Name: Chief Warrant Officer Elmer L. Ahlwardt
Born: October 20, 1919 in Danbury, IA
Died: January 26, 2002 in Neptune Beach, FL
Dates: Career Man 22 1/2 years
Branch: U.S. Navy
Name: William “Bill” Bollig
War: WWI
Dates: 1918
Name: Thomas Edd Kennaley
War: World War I
Name: Fred Treiber
War: World War I
Name: Albert Rosauer
War: WWI
Name: Harry Otto
War: WWI
Name: John Pry
War: WWI
Name: Lewis A. Ahlwardt, Sr.
War: WWI, WWII
Born: April 18, 1887 SE of Danbury
Died: March 21, 1966 in Martinez, CA - buried in Golden Gate National Cemetery
Medals: Purple Heart in WWII
Name: Gunners Mate 1st Class Elzie F. Ahlwardt
Born: February 16, 1925 in Danbury, IA
Died: Died in service of his country August 29, 1945 at Manilla, the Phillipines
War: WWII
Theater of Operation: South Pacific
Branch: U.S. Navy
Name: Pfc. Alfred J. Schimmer
War: WWII
Dates: November 5, 1941, Killed in action April 18, 1945, near Berlin.
Theater of Operation: Africa and Italy
Branch: Served in the 3rd Armored "Spearhead" Div., of the 1st Army (Gen. Patton's Army), the first div. to cross into Germany, take a German town, and penetrate the Siegfried line.
Name: Sgt. Thomas Kinsella
War: WWII
Dates: 1941-1945
Theater of Operation: Northern France, Ardennes, Rhineland, Central Europe
Branch: Army
Medals: American Defense Service Ribbon Victory Medal, American Theater Ribbon, European African Middle Eastern Theater Ribbon w/ 4 Bronze Battle Stars, 2 Overseas service bars, Service Stripe, Good Conduct, Bronze Star
Name: Sgt. Joseph H. Beachem
War: WWII
Dates: 1943
Theater of Operation: European Middle East
Branch: Air Transport Command
Name: John Fleishmann Jr.
Name: F1/C William G. Riecks
Died: January 22, 1978
War: WWII
Dates: January 28, 1944 - May 11, 1946
Branch: Navy
Name: Merle “Shad” Wright
War: WWII, Korean Conflict
Name: CWO Charles B. Schimmer
Died: December 31, 1999
War: WWII
Dates: May 1939
Theater of Operation: Medical Corpsman serving in the Pacific area thru-out WWII, at times attached to the Marines. Also served in all of the conflicts until his retirement in the 1960s.
Branch: Navy. Retired as Chief Warrant Officer after 20 years of service in the Navy.
Name: Loren Brenner
Died: 2002
War: WWII
Dates: 1941-1945
Theater of Operation: Pacific
Branch: Army
Medals: Purple Heart
Name: James F. Weber
War: WWII
Dates: July 1945- December 1946
Branch: 508th Parachute Infantry Regiment
Medals: Victory WWII Medal, Army of Occupation Medal (Germany)
Name: Leo Dirksen
War: World War II
Branch: Army
Name: Cpl. Marvin Bollig
War: WWII
Dates: 1943
Branch: 8th Air Force 464th Ser. Sq.
Name: Paul Gahan
War: WWII
Dates: 1942-1945
Theater of Operation: Pacific Theatre
Branch: Navy/ Marines
Medals: Asian Pacific Theatre Campaign Medal, American Theatre Campaign Medal, Victory WWII Medal, Bronze Star, Navy-Marine Corp medal
Name: Leo Wessling
War: WWII
Name: James Cord
War: WWII
Name: Paul Wessling
War: WWII
Name: Pat Kennaley
War: WWII
Name: Loyle F. Treiber
War: WWII
Theater of Operation: Europe
Medals: Purple Heart, Bronze Star
Name: Ed Krueger
War: World War II
Dates: December 1941-September 1945
Theater of Operation: England, Germany, Alps, Battle of the Bulge
Branch: Army - 23rd Armored Engineers
Medals: Good Conduct, Purple Heart
Name: Richard Uehle
War: WWII
Name: Pfc. Merlin Shever
Died: 1944
War: WWII
Theater of Operation: South Pacific Member of a tank battalion
Medals: Purple Heart
Name: John Cord
War: WWII
Name: Charles Uhl
War: WWII
Born: November 18, 1919
Died: April 28, 2009
Branch: Army
Medals: 2 bronze stars, Victory Medal, Philippines Liberation Medal, Good Conduct Medal, Carbine Sharpshooter Medal, Overseas Bars
Theater of Operation: Asia Pacific area. After being on the water 31 days, he arrived at Lingayne Gulf on the island of Luzon. Later he was sent to Papau, New Guinea, and the Philippines and then to Japan for the signing of the Armistice.
Name: Lawrence Seuntjens
War: WWII
Name: Cpl. Clair L. Maguire
War: Korean - served as cook
Dates: August 22,1951-May 21, 1953, Armed Reserves until August of 1959. Retired from Reserves as M/Sgt.
Branch: Army
Medals: Combat Infantry badge, United Nations Service Medal, Korean Service Medal with 3 Bronze Service Stars
Name: Harry M. Bjorholm
War: WWII
Dates: February 14, 1943-November 7, 1945
Theater of Operation: Rhineland, Central Europe, England, France
Branch: Army Air Force
Medals: 2 Bronze Stars, Good Conduct Medal, American Theatre Campaign Ribbon, E.A.M.E. Theater Ribbon, 3 Overseas Bars, Rhineland
Name: 1st Lt. Donald L. Ahlwardt
War: WWII - B-17 Pilot U.S. Army Air Corp.
Born: May 4, 1923 in Danbury
Died: March 3, 1943 in B-17 crash over the Elbe River in Germany - Missing in Action
Medals: Purple Heart, Air Medal
Name: Harold J. Tierney
War: Korean
Dates: October 24, 1950-August 3, 1954
Theater of Operation: Korea, Third Marine Division FMF
Branch: Navy - Hospital Corpsman HM3
Medals: Korean Service, UN Service medal, National Defense Service, Good Conduct
Name: Cpl. Raymond Jerome Venteicher
War: Korean occupation
Theater of Operation: South Korea
Name: T. Glenn Schimmer
War: Korean Conflict
Name: CPL (T) Thomas G. Jensen
War: Korean
Dates: June 19, 1951 - May 27, 1953
Name: Corporal L.W. "Bill" Hartleben
Born: November 2, 1931
Died: November 1, 1982
War: Korean Conflict 1951-1953
Theater of Operation: Served 13 months in Korea with signal corp near the line.
Branch: U.S. Army, Field Wireman with I Corps Artillery Headquarters.
Medals: Korean Service Medal, 2 Bronze Service Stars, United Nations Service Medal. Legion Commander McNamara Post in Ida Grove 1970-1971.
Name: Joseph Schimmer
Born: January 6, 1931
Died: 2008
War: Korean Conflict 1952-1953
Branch: Army
Name: Larry Pithan
War: Viet Nam
Dates: 1971-1972
Theater of Operation: Republic of Viet Nam
Branch: 71st Assault Helicopter Co., 23rd Infantry Division
Medals: 2 Distinguished Flying Crosses, 2 bronze start, 30 air medals, Vietnamese Service Medal, Vietnamese Campaign Medal.
Name: Dewayne Moser
War: Viet Nam
Civil War Veterans
Absolum Beeson
Thomas M. Collins
James Donery
John J. Driscoll
Ralph French
John Gleason
James A. Hoyt
William Hayes
Wallace A. Kennedy
Daniel C. King
John McNiff
James Mead
Patrick Reilley
John Virtue
John W. Wilson
World War I Veterans
C.R.S. Anderson
Harold J. Brady
Horace B. Canty
Lyle L. Canty
Emil T. Carlson
Oscar Carlson
Richard J. Colbert
Patrick Collins, Sr.
Patrick J. Conway
Charles G. Cord
Charles J. Crilly
D. Manley Durst
Harmon Ellis
Thomas L. Fitzpatrick, Sr.
Paul Frentress
Otto H. Good
Harold Iddings
John F. Kane
Waldo Keitges
Leo P. Keleher
Thomas E. Kennaley
Harmon A. Kennedy
George C. Kennedy
Frank Kinney
Harold Kinney
Leo A. Matt
Frank McAleer
Sadie McAleer
Wilfred McBride
James A. McGuire
D. Edward McQuillen
Joseph A. Meier
Frank Meier
Edward Mohrhauser
Charles E. Neustrom
Alfred C. Noel
Joseph O’Doherty
John J. Ortner
Delbert Penney
John H. Petit
George Petrositch
John Pry
Lewis C. Richards
Albert J. Riedmiller
Albert Rosauer
Lyle D. Smith
Harold Tangeman
Mark A. Teefey
Orville E. Thompson
Fred Treiber
Louis Treiber
Daniel J. Welte
Frank E. Wenger
John T. Wieling
Harry Wohlers
World War II Veterans
Donald Ahlwardt
Elzie Ahlwardt
George Barry
Joseph Barry
Robert Barry
William Barry
Harry Bjorholm
Percy Brashear
Loren Brenner
Vincent Brenner
Pete Broders
Glenn Bumsted
Roy Bumsted
Michael Burke
William Burke
Darrel Buschkamp
John Colbert
Eugene Collins
John Cord
John Craig
Ray Diimig
Robert Diment
Leo Dirksen
Mary Alice Donery
Clarence Drenkhahn
Fred Drenkhahn
Bert Durst
Richard Ernest
Wilmar Ernest
Melvin Elskamp
Raymond Erlemeier
Donald Fitzpatrick
Norma Fitzpatrick
Robert Fitzpatrick
Thomas Fitzpatrick, Jr.
William Fitzpatrick
John Fleischmann
Bill Forbes
Marvin Frum
Paul Gahan
Milford Gray
Donald Hamers
Robert Hartigan
Arthur Hayes
James Hegarty
Alice Kane
John E. Kane
Patrick Kennaley
Frank Kennedy
Thomas Kinsella
Ed Krueger
Paul Kueny
M.B. Leavengood
Charles Mathews
Albert Mohrhauser
Charles Mohrhauser
Bernard Mullin
Leverne Neglass
Nemo Neglass
Wayne Ortner
Lewis Peterson
George Pithan
Archie Pry
William Riecks
Maris Riedmiller
George Riley
Darrold Rogge
Cloyce Rose
Leland Rose
Martin Rush
Carl Sands
Carl Schable
Tony Schefcik
Richard Schrunk
Ray Scott
Alfred Skahill
Jim Sokolowski
Leon Sohm
Lester Theobald
Harold Treiber
Loyle Treiber
LeMoine Trucke
John Twitchell
Clem Uehle
Herman Uhlenhake
Raymond Venteicher
James Weber
Leo Wessling
Paul Wessling
George Workman
Merle Wright
Korean War Veterans
Robert Boyle
Kenneth Collins
Donald Flanigan
Douglas Glassel
Thomas Jensen
Robert Kueny
Clair Maguire
Keith Pithan
Glen Schimmer
Larry Schleimer
Tom Schrank
Wayne Steinbach
Hal Tierney
Edwin Trucke
Dale Tuttle
Richard Uehle
Donald Weber
James Welte
Patrick Welte
Alvis Wessling
Leonard Wessling
Vietnam Era Veterans
Gary Anderson
Gary Brouillette
Eddie Krueger
Darnell Lacey
Francis Leahy
William Mohrhauser
Verdett Plautz
Wayne Sitzmann
Michael Wessling
Veterans From This Community Buried in Other Places
Civil War
Thomas Gray
Jimmie Lee
World War I
Lewis A. Ahlwardt
Bill Bollig
Fred Braden (I and II)
Mark Brady
Frank Craig
Weldon Drawn
Martin Drenkhahn
Broder J. Jacobsen
William Klickow
Harry Otto
Louis Weber
World War II
Elmer Ahlwardt
George Bell
Lawrence D. Colbert
Gerald E. Collins
James Cord
Francis Crilly
Delbert Diimig
Lawrence Drenkhahn
Byron Fisher
Joseph Fitzpatrick
Hoyt Granter
Marvin Hansen
Ellis P. Kelley
Eugene Kelley
Robert Kennaley
Alfred Kiertzner
Jerome Kleine
Bernard Koetz
Norman LeFebvre
Loran Macy
Louise Harrigan McElwain
Phil Pine
Walter Riecks, Jr.
Cecil Rogge
Melvin Rogge
Alfred Schimmer
Alma Schrank
Merlin Shever
Merlin Skahill
Ray Scott
Lawrence Steele
John Tatman
Leonard Virtue
August Weber
Francis Welte
Irving Wintz
Korean War
Jack Barry
Lawrence Collins
Ronnie Collins
Dale Elskamp
Bill Hartleben
Robert Keleher
Gordon McCleery
Cleo J. McGuire
Joseph McGuire
John T. Ortner
Archie Ramm
Cecil Riley
Lawrence Webb
Vietnam Era
Leo Burton
Jim McCleery
Larry Pithan
Richard Seibold