Joint Services for Dickinson, Lufkin Sunday
A double memorial service for Sgt. Robert F. Lufkin, son of Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Lufkin, 2322 Lafayette street, and Pvt. Elmer E. Dickinson, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ray Dickinson, Casebeer Heights, will be conducted at 7:30 p. m. Sunday in Walnut Street Baptist church with Rev. Robert T. Ketcham officiating, it was announced Friday.
Sergeant Lufkin was killed in action July 29 while serving with a tank destroyer unit in France.
Private Dickinson, taken captive by the Germans in December, 1942, died in a German prison camp June 18, 1944, of appendicitis with peritonitis complications.
Lufkin and Dickinson are the first members of Walnut Street Baptist church to lose their lives while serving in the armed forces.
The service will be open to the public.
Source: Waterloo Daily Courier, Waterloo, Iowa, Friday, September 15, 1944, Page 8
Sgt. Lufkin's Body Returns Tuesday
The body of Sgt. Robert F. Lufkin, who was killed in action July 29, 1944, while serving with a tank destroyer unit in France during World War II, is to arrive here Tuesday Afternoon on the Illinois Central railroad and will be taken to O'Keefe & Towne funeral home.
Twenty-four years old at the time of his death, Sergeant Lufkin, who is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles C. Lufkin, 2322 Lafayette street, was buried in a cemetery in LaCambe, France.
Committal services, with military rites, will be conducted Wednesday at 10:30 a. m. by Dr. Robert T. Ketchum, pastor of Walnut Street Baptist church, at the grave in Fairview cemetery.
Sergeant Lufkin entered service Apr. 25, 1942, and was stationed at Camp Bowie, Tex., Camp Polk, La., Ft. Bragg, N. C., Camp Hood, Tex. and Camp Gruber, Okla. before going overseas in February of 1944.
He was with the allied invasion forces in their landings in France, after serving four months in England.
Robert Frederick Lufkin was born Jan. 24, 1920 at Cudsworth, Saskatchewan., Canada, the son of Charles and Edna Kittrell Lufkin. He came to Waterloo with his parents about 1936. He married Opal Clements of Waterloo Jan. 30, 1941.
Surviving in addition to his parents and widow, Mrs. R. L. Mayes, 507 1/2 Sycamore street, who has since remarried, and a brother Richard at home; two sisters, Opal and Mrs. Ruby Opfer, both of Los Angeles, Cal. and his maternal grandmother, Mrs. Lizzie Kittrell, 910 Mulberry street.
Source: Waterloo Daily Courier, Waterloo, Iowa, Sunday, May 23, 1948, Page 12
DEATHS
SGT. ROBERT F. LUFKIN.
Graveside committal services will be Wednesday at 10:30 a. m. at Fairview cemetery for Sgt. Robert F. Lufkin, who was killed in action July 29, 1944, while serving with a tank destroyer unit in France during World war II. Dr. Robert T. Ketcham, pastor of Walnut Street Baptist church, will officiate at the ceremony.
Source: Waterloo Daily Courier, Waterloo, Iowa, Tuesday, May 25, 1948, Page 18
