DIES IN ACTION
Pfc. Alvin Gerald Kemplin has been reported killed in action while serving with the army on the Philippines, according to word received by his father, W. W. Kemplin, Route 4. His mother and his wife, Mrs. Elsie I. Kemplin, reside at 720 Twenty-fourth avenue. An Abraham Lincoln high school graduate, he was employed as a brakeman on the Union Pacific railroad prior to his induction in July, 1944. Pfc. Kemplin went overseas last December.
Source: The Council Bluffs Nonpareil, Council Bluffs, Iowa, Thursday, May 17, 1945, Page 7
KILLED IN ACTION
Pfc. Alvin G. Kemplin, 25, was reported killed in action on Okinawa, according to word received by his wife, Mrs. Elsie Irene Kemplin, 720 Twenty-fourth avenue. A graduate of Abraham Lincoln high school, he was employed as a brakeman by the Union Pacific railroad prior to his induction in June, 1944. He arrived overseas in December. A member of the Eagles lodge, he is survived by his widow, Elsie and his mother of 720 Twenty-fourth street; his father W. W. Kemplin, Route 4; two brothers, Stewart at home and Warren Eugene and one sister, Mrs. Virgil Lees of San Bernardino, Col. (sic).
Source: The Council Bluffs Nonpareil, Council Bluffs, Monday, May 21, 1945, Page 5
RETURN OF WAR DEAD FOR BURIAL
Bodies From Pacific Area Arrive In U. S.
Two soldiers from Council Bluffs are included in the 2,012 war dead who have been returned to the United States from the Pacific area aboard the army transport Sgt. Jack J. Pendleton, the department of the army announced Tuesday.
They are Pvt. William S. Cohrs and Pfc. Alvin G. Kemplin, both of the army.
[NOTE: Portions of this article regarding Pvt. W. Stanley Dick Cohrs has been omitted but may be found on his individual webpage within this site.]
U. P. Brakeman.
Pfc. Alvin G. Kemplin, 25, son of William W. Kemplin, route 4, was killed in action April 23, 1945, while serving with the army on Okinawa. Alvin was a graduate of Abraham Lincoln high school. He worked as a brakeman on the Union Pacific railroad prior to his induction in the army in July, 1944. He was a member of the Eagles fraternity.
Survivors are his father, two brothers, Stewart and Warren Kemplin of Council Bluffs, and one sister, Mrs. Virgil Lees of San Bernardino, Calf.
The body will come to Woodring’s funeral home.
Source: The Council Bluffs Nonpareil, Council Bluffs, Iowa, Tuesday, January 18, 1949, Page 3
KEMPLIN SURVIVOR -- The name of Mrs. Minnie Kemplin, 720 Twenty-fourth avenue, mother of Pfc. Alvin Kemplin, returned war dead, was inadvertently omitted from the list of survivors in Tuesday’s Nonpareil story.
Source: The Council Bluffs Nonpareil, Council Bluffs, Iowa, Wednesday, January 19, 1949, p. 17.
Funerals
The body of Pfc. Alvin G. Kemplin, 25, killed in action on Okinawa April 23, 1945, will arrive here Tuesday and be taken to Woodring funeral home. He is the son of William W. Kemplin of Garner township and Mrs. Minnie Kemplin of Council Bluffs, and a former Union Pacific employe (sic). He was also a member of Eagles Aerie No. 104.
Military rites are being planned for Wednesday at 2 p.m. at Woodring’s chapel, the Rev. F. G. Howard of Bethany Presbyterian church officiating. Veterans of Foreign Wars, post No. 737, will be in charge [at] Cedar Lawn cemetery.
Source: The Council Bluffs Nonpareil, Council Bluffs, Iowa, Sunday, February 13, 1949, Page 6
