NEWS OF THE BOYS IN THE SERVICE
Pfc. Franklin Lee of Camp Bowie, Brownwood, Texas, arrived in LeMars Monday to spend a 15-day furlough with his wife and daughter and other relatives here. Franklin is in the ordinance department, but is awaiting a transfer into the army air corps.
Source: LeMars Semi-Weekly Sentinel, July 7, 1944
SOLDIER’S NEWS
Pvt. Franklin J. Lee, son of Mr. and Mrs. E.A. Lee, of this city, arrived home from Camp Bowie, Tex., with an honorable discharge from the Army. He has been in the service for two years. A knee injury received when he was playing high school football, forced him out of the army.
Source: LeMars Globe-Post, December 21, 1944
***Further Research:
Franklin James Lee was born Jan. 22, 1922 to E. A. G. and Freda Secht Lee. He died Dec. 13, 2002 and is buried in Riverside National Cemetery, Riverside, CA.
Source: ancestry.com
