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Sergeant First Class Norman Sept. 19, 1969, through Sept. 2, 1971. five days. served in were Normandy, northern Robinson of Knoxville served with the , Ardennes and Rhineland. Army Infantry in from Oct. 10, David I. Spriggs, Sonarman 2nd US Navy E3 Jarin S. Weldon of Decorations received include the Good 1952, through July 11,1954. Class, US Navy, 1956-60, U.S.S. Dyess Knoxville is a Boatswains Mate on an DDR 880, a 365' 2,200 ton . Amphibious Assault Ship based in Little Conduct Medal, European-African Donald D. Robinson, U.S. Army Creek, Va. He takes Navy Seals, Army Middle Eastern Theater Service Medical Corps, Enewetock Island, 1943- S/Sgt. Wilmer A. Stallinga of Pella Rangers, and Marines to shore on an Medal, four Overseas Service Bars and 64. served with the Air Force from 1951-55. LCU. (Landing Craft Unit). Weldon has a lapel button. His ASR score (9/2/45) served since February 2009. was 82. Michael Robinson, Korea, U.S. Air Robert (Rusty) Stewart, Army 'Force. Technical Sergeant, served for 42 months C3 James (Homer) Weldon, Navy, Samuel Thomas Wilson entered into during WWII, (deceased). served aboard the USS Escanbia. Dates active service in the Army on Feb. 9, Willis Robinson, 1941-45, Sgt. 34th of service are May 21, 1943, through 1945. He was a construction machine "Infantry Division, African-European The late Sergeant Donald Stursma of Dec. 1,1945. operator T-5. His decorations and cita­ Theater Pella served with the Army from 1952- tions included the Liberation 54. Spec. 5 Melvin C. Weldon, Army, died Ribbon, Asiatic Theater Ribbon, Victory Wendell Robinson, 1950-54, U.S. in Vietnam. Served from March 18, Medal, Good Conduct Medal and ' Navy, Corporal John Van Lee of Pella served 1968, until he was killed on Dec. 8,1969. Meritorius Unit Award. He was honor­ with the Army from March 10, 1952, ably discharged on Feb. 9, 1946. He Chief Warrant Officer 4 Don W. through Feb. 17,1954. Sheila A. Weldon, Air Force, March passed away in April 1994. Roorda of Pella served 37 with the Iowa 1971 thorugh July 1979. • Army National Guard. Roger P. Tancrede, U. S. Army - Cpl. Raymond "Joe" Wing, Pershing, Wallace L. West of Harvey entered the PFC, Served Korean War Marines. Did two tours in Vietnam, PFC Robert Runnells of Knoxville U.S. Army in June 1942 and was dis­ served from August 1966 through August was a member of Co. "A", 316th charged Oct. 2, 1945. He was overseas 1970. •Engineers Battalion in the 91st Division, Staff Sergeant Glenn VandeKamp of for four years, serving in Europe, Africa, Knoxville served on the Glenn Merle • Fifth, U.S. Army. He served from Nov. 5, Italy and the Mideast Theater. West was Tyler Wright, 2004-09, Iraq, twice 1942, through Nov. 5, 1945. 435th Troop Carrier of the US Army Air awarded the Purple Heart. Force. Service dates were January 1943 wounded, U.S. Army. through October 1945. CM Sergeant Herbert Junior PFC Dale Vernon Whitlatch served E-4 Donald Zoutte Sr. served with the Rumbaugh served 27 years and eight with the US Army from Dec. 29, 1942, S/Sgt. John H Vandevoort of Pella US Air Force and US Army Reserve ' months with the US Air Force. through Feb. 14, 1946. He was in the from 1971-78. served with the Army Air Corps, 1942- United States, serving in Texas, 46. CM Sergeant Marvin G. Rumbaugh Louisiana, Kentucky and Virginia. Veterans from Griffin Nursing Center served 23 years and six months with the in Knoxville include Raymond DenAdel, US Air Force. Gerrit Van Hal of Pella served with the Army Infantry from Nov. 13, 1952, Lewis Whitlatch, Sept. 18, 1923, to Edwin Raymond Mick, Anthony Peresic, March 6, 1999, was a PFC Military Dale Randol and Bernard VanZante. Corporal Melvin D. Rumbaugh served through Oct. 20,1954. with the US Army for two years. Policeman. He entered the service on Sgt. Henry J. Van Hall of Pella served Nov. 5, 1942, and was honorably Patty Robuck of Des Moines is a Loan in the Army from Dec. 4, 1950 through discharged on Nov. 13, 1945. Among Nov. 20, 1952. •' Servicing Specialist II working in Loss the campaigns and battlefields he Mitigation. The late PFC LeRoy J. Van Vark of E5 Christopher L. Rollings of Pella Pella served in the Army from 1944-46. served with the Navy from 1991-98. He • was a Plank Owner on the U.S.S. George SP4 Roger L. Van Vark served in the * * * Washington. Army from 1966-68.

Chief Petty Officer Curtis F. Rollings Gerald VanZante of Monroe entered of Pella has served in the Navy since the U.S. Navy on Feb. 20, 1944, at 1994. He is based in Norfolk, Va., aboard Barber's Point Naval Air Station in the U.S.S. James E. Williams. Ottumwa. He was stationed at Pearl Harbor for a period of his service. VanZante was discharged May 24, 1946. Corporal Melvin L. Rouwenhorst of Pella served as an Army 1169th Combat Cpl Dean Van Zee of Knoxville served Engineer from June 1951 through May 1953. in the Army Air Force from 1945-47. Airman First Class Le Roy A. Van Zee T/3 H. William Sause of Pella, origi­ of Pella served with the Air Force from nally from Baltimore, Md., served with Jan. 4, 1951 through December 1954. the Army Medical Corps from April 1942 through November 1945. John Van Zee of Pella was a Corporal in the US Army. He served Second Lt. Richard Schrad served in from March 10,1952, through Feb. 17, Military Intelligence in the Army from 1954. 1965-67. He spent a year in Vietnam. Sgt. Marion G. Van Zee of Pella Staff Sergeant Larry Anthony Sims of served in the Army, including time in ft3 Knoxville has served with the US Army Korea, from Feb. 13,1952, through Nov. and Army Reserve since 1994. 13,1953. John W. Scott, Chief Petty Officer, SSgt. Logan Vander Leest of Pella U.S. Navy/Naval Reserve, 34 years of served in the Army from 1951-53. service. Sgt. Ryan Verhoef, 3rd ARC Bobbie James Smith was an EM Third (Armored Regiment Cavalry), has served with the U.S. Navy. He was enlisted from our country since January 2006. He 'March 27, 1944, until June 29, 1946. served a tour of duty in Iraq from The Knoxville Journal-Express and Pella Chronicle Smith served on the USS Clebume APA November 2006 through January 2008. •#73 and his hometown is Bussey. sought submissions for the Vets Honor Roll and stories Giles H. Wadle of Knoxville served in Taylor Smith of Knoxville is an E-2 shared by veterans and their families. We published what the Navy in Korea from 1950-54 on the 'Hospital Corps with the Navy. He has destroy USS Wedderburn, DD684, and •served since October 2008 and is cur­ was received, and no Marion County veteran was inten­ with the Seabees on . rently stationed in San Diego, Calif. tionally omitted. Leonard L. Wadle of Melcher-Dallas ' Sgt. Tom Smith, Army, served from enlisted in the US Coast Guard at Des Thank you to everyone who supported this project and ^November 1968 through July 1970. Moines on Jan. 28, 1949, and was dis­ charged in Seattle, Wash., on May 3, a big thank you to our veterans. Spec/5 Harvey E. Sprafka of 1954. His rank was YN-2 and he served Knoxville served with the Army from a total of five years, three months and "Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men."-Gen. George S. Patton

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