Posthumous Awards to Lenox Couples
LENOX, (AP) – Two Lenox couples have received the posthumous award of the purple heart from the war department in behalf of their two sons.
Mr. and Mrs. Warren Eckles accepted the award for Pfc. Donald Eckles, killed in action in Normandy on D-day. He was a paratrooper.
Mr. and Mrs. Pearl Reynolds have received the medal for Pfc. Harold C. Reynolds, killed in action on Bougainville Nov. 9, 1943.
Source: The Council Bluffs Nonpareil, Council Bluffs, Wednesday, October 04, 1944, Page 7
Harold C. Reynolds was bon June 25, 1923 to Sidney Pearl and Annis May Frost Reynolds. He died Nov. 9, 1943 and is buried in West Fairview Cemetery, Lenox, IA.
Pvt. Reynolds served with the U.S. Marine Corps in World War II.
Source: ancestry.com
