Father-Son Banquet Planned
by Calvary Guild for March 18
Calvary Lutheran guild met at the home of Mrs. Leona Hazlett, 1020 Tyler avenue northwest, Thursday afternoon with 13 members present to discuss plans for a father and son banquet to be held in the church parlors March 18 at 6:30 p. m.
. . . Mrs. Ethel McDougle told of her trip last week to visit her son, Sgt. Harvey McDougle, at Camp Dix. She spent two days there and sightseeing in New York City. She met several young men from Mason City in camp, all of whom gave her messages to deliver to their parents. She described the food at the camp as excellent. The boys seemed to be very healthy and all were anxious to get going. On her way home she stopped in Chicago a day to visit friends. . .
Source: The Globe Gazette, Mason City, Cerro Gordo County, Iowa, Monday, February 27, 1942, Page 6
SENDS PAPERS FROM IRELAND
Belfast Telegraph, "Stars and Stripes" Are Received Here
Copies of the Belfast Telegraph and the A. E. F. newspaper, "Stars and Stripes," plus other gifts such as an Irish green handkerchief "to my mother" were sent from Ireland to Mrs. Herman McDougle, 821 Carolina place southeast, by her son, Harvey, a sergeant in the A. E. F.
The Belfast, Ireland, newspaper had advertising matter on page one, as most European papers do. Although there was naturally much war news on the front page, there was also a liberal sprinking of local news, including one story of a church choral service.
Marriage and death notices are carried in the same column on page one. Want ads are also on the front page.
Source: The Globe Gazette, Mason City, Cerro Gordo County, Iowa, Saturday, June 20, 1942, Page 14
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2 AEFighters Promoted
Two more Mason Cityans with the A. E. F. in Ireland have received promotions, according to word received here this week. They are Forest D. Abel, promoted from the rank of sergeant to staff sergeant, and Harvey McDougle, promoted to the rank of sergeant.
Sergeant ABEL, whose wife and son reside at 212 Twenty-first street southeast, was a corporal when he left Mason City with the national guard in 1941. He is the son of Mrs. Lee Lindsay, 15 1/2 Commercial avenue southeast.
Sergeant McDougle, 20, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Herman McDougle, 821 Carolina place southeast, was in the second A. E. F. contingent. He also left Mason City in 1941 with the national guard.
Source: The Globe Gazette, Mason City, Cerro Gordo County, Iowa, Saturday, June 20, 1942, Page 14 (photo included)
WRITES FROM ITALY
A letter received here from Tech. Sgt. Harvey McDougle, son of Mr. and Mrs. Herman McDougle, 821 Carolina place S. E., states that he is at present living with an Italian family, presumably in a rest area in Italy. He wrote that after some very hard fighting on Feb. 20 he had lost 9 of his buddies, but was well himself. He spoke of receiving the Globe-Gazette. Sgt. McDougle has been overseas 2 years, having left the States with the 2nd contingent of the A. E. F. He left Mason City with the national guard in 1941.
Source: The Globe Gazette, Mason City, Cerro Gordo County, Iowa, Monday, March 27, 1944, Page 14
WHEREABOUTS
Tech. Sgt. Harvey E. McDougle, stationed in the Cassino area in Italy writes that the going in the mountains there has been very difficult. He stated that all supplies were brought by mules and that it took 18 hours to make a round trip with ammunition and rations. He said that they had lost many mules by gun fire and by falls. In one place they were pinned down by gun fire for 7 hours, he wrote.
Source: The Globe Gazette, Mason City, Cerro Gordo County, Iowa, Wednesday, May 24, 1944, Page 16
MEMORIAL SERVICES SUNDAY
for SGT. HARVEY McDOUGLE
To Be Honored at
Grace Evangelical Church in Afternoon
Memorial services will be conducted Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock at the Grace Evangelical church for Tech. Sgt. Harvey McDougle, who was killed in action in Italy on July 3. The Rev. G. H. RAMFORD, pastor of the church, has charge of arrangements. An invitation is extended to the patriotic organizations to be present with their colors.
Sgt. McDougle was born on June 29, 1921, at Minnewaukan, N. Dak. He had lived in Mason city from the time he was 3 years old. He entered service with the national guard from Mason City in 1941 and went overseas with the 2nd contingent of the AEF in February, 1942. He had seen active service in north Africa and Italy.
The purple heart awarded posthumously to Sgt. McDougle was received by his parents this week.
Besides his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Herman McDougle, 821 Carolina place S. E., he is survived by 2 brothers in the service, Gordon, sergeant, now stationed in Oklahoma and expected to be here for the service, Dwaine, seaman 2/c, somewhere in the Pacific; 3 sisters, Mrs. June King, Charles City; Mrs. Elizabeth Blunt, Mason City; and Joy McDougle at home. His paternal grandmother, Mrs. Carrie McDougle, Sedan, Minn., is expected to be here for the service.
"LIFE IS MADE TO WORK GOD'S WAY" - BAMFORD
Memorial Services for T. Sgt. H. McDougle Conducted at Church
"When men and nations try to go against the basic laws of life - the laws of God - then life becomes tangled and snarled," said the Rev. G. H. Bamford, pastor of the Grace Evangelical church, where memorial services were conducted Sunday afternoon for Tech Sgt. Harvey McDougle, who was killed in action in Italy on July 3.
"Life is made to work God's way - the Christian way - and we are seeing abundant evidence that it will work no other way," said Mr. Bamford.
". . . Our heads and our hearts are bowed in sorrow at the sacrifices which have been and are being made as a result of these situations, but with faith in God we trust and pray that men and nations may come to realize that there is a way out, but it must be God's way; the only way that life will work," concluded the pastor.
During the service the gold star was placed over the blue on the service flag of the church by C. E. Baker, superintendent of the Sunday school. A personal tribute written by F. B. Hathaway, under whose direction Sgt. McDougle had taken his work in the manual arts department of the high school, was read.
Two solos, "Fade, Fade Each Earthly Joy" and "The City Four-Square" were sung by Miss Madelyn Baker, with Mrs. Audrey Haverson accompanying. The service closed with the sounding of taps by Maj. J. R. Cheyne of the Salvation Army.
Several patriotic organizations were present with their colors.
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Mr. and Mrs. Lester King and family, Mrs. William King and Miss Marie Giere went to Mason City Sunday to attend the memorial service for Mrs. Lester King’s brother, Sgt. Harvey McDougle, who was killed in action, July 3 in Italy.
Source: The Globe Gazette, Mason City, Cerro Gordo County, Iowa, Thursday, August 24, 1944, Page 12
With Our Armed Forces
Soldiered Together
Sgt. Arthur Cox, Chicago, who soldiered overseas with T/Sgt. Harvey E. McDougle in the Red Bull division, spent the past week in Mason City visiting at the home of Harvey's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Herman McDougle, 821 Carolina place S. E. Sgt. McDougle was killed by a German Tellar mine at Cecina, Italy, on July 3, 1944.
Sgt. Cox spent 21 months in the same outfit as McDougle and was with him at the time he was killed. He had joined the company when re-enforcements were sent to Kassarine pass in north Africa when the enemy broke through the allied lines.
Cox brought the first direct information of their son that the McDougles have obtained. Serving as a demolition man, he had been unable to write details about himself.
Cox himself was wounded at St. Marguerite, Italy, by a personal mine. He spent several months in hospitals for plastic surgery. He was returned to the States in January, 1945. He will return to O'Reilly general hospital at Springfield, Mo., at the end of his 30-day furlough. He holds the purple heart and bronze star.
Two other sons of the McDougles and a son-in-law who were in the service are now home discharged. Gordon served in the army and Duane in the navy. The son-in-law, Dick Blunt, also served in the navy.
Source: The Globe Gazette, Mason City, Cerro Gordo County, Iowa, April 03, 1946, Page 18
