WAR SERVICE NEWS
Vero Calkins, who has been in the service 8 ½ months, was recently honorably discharged from the service and will leave LeMars about Aug. 15, for Detroit, Mich., where he has a defense job. The family will make their home there.
Source: LeMars Globe-Post, August 2, 1943
Vero David Calkins was born Oct. 28, 1905 to Archie Richard and Iota Mabel Davis Calkins. He died Apr. 16, 1978 and is buried in Calvary Cemetery, LeMars, IA.
Vero served with the U.S. Army in World War II.
Source: ancestry.com
