Funerals for Pfc Marley R. Arthurholtz and PFC Hulett A. Thompson (World War II); and CPL Earl W. Duncan (Korea)
Funerals will be held next week for previously missing individuals recently accounted for by DPAA.
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This October, DPAA announced that it had accounted for Pfc Marley R. Arthurholtz, USMC. Pfc Arthurholtz was lost at Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941.
Pfc Arthurholtz will be buried next week – on Saturday, 30 November – in Granger, Indiana. Regrettably, DPAA does not seem to have posted the specific location or time for his funeral services or interment.
If any TAH readers have the precise location and time for Pfc Arthurholtz’s funeral services and/or interment, please post it in comments below. And if any readers are in the area and have the time, here’s an opportunity to give someone lost during World War II a proper final send-off.
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This May, DPAA announced that it had accounted for PFC Hulett A. Thompson, US Army. PFC Thompson was lost in Burma on 30 June 1944.
PFC Thompson will be buried next week – on Saturday, 30 November – in Carrollton, Georgia. Regrettably, DPAA does not seem to have posted the specific location or time for his funeral services or interment.
If any TAH readers have the precise location and time for PFC Thompson’s funeral services and/or interment, please post it in comments below. And if any readers are in the area and have the time, here’s an opportunity to give someone lost during World War II a proper final send-off.
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Earlier this month, DPAA announced that it had accounted for CPL Earl W. Duncan, US Army. CPL Duncan was lost in North Korea on 2 December 1950.
CPL Duncan will be buried next week – on Saturday, 30 November – in Gastonia, North Carolina. Regrettably, DPAA does not seem to have posted the specific location or time for his funeral services or interment.
If any TAH readers have the precise location and time for CPL Duncan’s funeral services and/or interment, please post it in comments below. And if any readers are in the area and have the time, here’s an opportunity to give someone lost during the Korean War a proper final send-off.
Category: Blue Skies, We Remember
We will raise a glass to pay Honors to these returned Warriors. Rest easy at Home Men.
I will be intransit from Tampa next Saturday. A notice will be sent to Compatriots in Carrollton. There should be a good crowd to pay respects to PFC Hulett Thompson.
Thanks for the update Hondo.
An announcement published five days ago in the South Bend Tribune newspaper says that PFC Arthurholtz will be buried (next to his parents) at 11:00 am, on Saturday December 7th, at the Saint Joseph Memorial Park Cemetery in Granger.
Rest now in our home soil, fellow Hoosier.
Thanks for the update, Claw. DPAA’s website still shows 30 Nov as the funeral date, as do some other sources published in early Nov. Apparently the funeral was delayed one week and DPAA didn’t get the word.
Here’s the link to an article from the South Bend Tribune confirming the info Claw referenced above:
https://www.southbendtribune.com/news/local/brother-waited-nearly-years-to-be-able-to-lay-south/article_c532d982-2f7f-59b6-b824-bfc085c58fe8.html
Rest in peace.
Welcome home, men.
Rest well.
All the details, and a very nice obituary, are available here for CPL Earl W. Duncan:
https://www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/gastonia-nc/earl-duncan-8924891
His funeral and burial are 30 November 2019 in Gastonia, NC.
Checked all four funeral homes in Carrollton GA and none has additional information posted at this time. However, PFC Thompson has a memorial marker beside his parents graves in the Clem Cemetery at the Clem United Methodist Church in Carrollton.
There is much more information about PFC Thompson posted here: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/40564623/hulett-allen-thompson
It is highly likely that PFC Thompson will be buried in the Clem Cemetery, but we do not have independent verification of that detail.
RIP, PFC Thompson wherever your final resting place may be.
PFC Thompson will be buried next to his parents, on 11/30/19 at Noon. Martin Hightower Funeral Home is handling all arrangements.