Frank Lester and Ora M. Ellrich Barker family - Wright Co.
Sgt. Emory Barker served in World War II with the U.S. Marine Corps. He was Chief of Field Communications and participated in the defense of Midway Island, New Guinea, Cape Gloucester and New Britain.
Clare Lester Barker was born May 25, 1919. He died Dec. 26, 1959 and is buried in Evergreen Cemetery, Clarion, IA.
Sgt. Clare Barker served in the European theater of war with the U.S. Army’s 711th Railway Operating Battalion.
Sources: “Ordinary Heroes”, by Judge Newt Draheim; ancestry.com
