News From Salem
Salem friends were saddened last week when news came that Pvt. Amos Ambrose was killed in action. Amos worked for his uncle, Chas. Riley of this vicinity before entering the service; sympathy is extended to his parents and his wife and baby daughter, just a few days old, who are at the Dr. Cash clinic of Lenox.
Source: Adams County Free Press, Corning, Iowa, Thursday, November 02, 1944, Page 13
Body Returned For Burial
The body of Pfc. Amos Herman Ambrose, son of Mr. and Mrs. William Ambrose of Lenox, was returned home last week from Belgium where Amos was killed in action October 8, 1944. The military escort was T. Sgt. Leo L. Hicks.
Ambrose finished he basic training in August, 1944, at Camp Hood, Texas, returning to Camp Meade, Md., and from there went overseas in September.
Funeral services were conducted at the Arnold funeral home at Lenox, Dec. 16, with Parkinson Post No. 250, American Legion, in charge. Rev. Clarence Richardson, chaplain of the Legion post, officiated. The Legion firing squad fired a salute as the body was buried in Lenox cemetery.
Pvt. Ambrose was the son of Mr. and Mrs. William Ambrose of Lenox, His parents survive. Also surviving are his widow, Mrs. Doris Siroube, of Cedar Falls, Iowa; a daughter, Carolyn Joyce who was born 10 days after her father was killed; a sister, Mrs. Lucille Davis of Corning; and three brothers, Reldon, Karl and Jasper, all of Lenox, and all veterans of the military service.
Source: Adams County Free Press, Corning, Iowa, Thursday, December 25, 1947, Page 1 (photo included)
