Services Honor Corporal Killed in Italian Area
Memorial services were held Sunday morning at Whitfield Methodist church for Corporal Gordon W. Cochran, 26, son of Mr. and Mrs. Roy Cochran, 2012 W. Palmer Avenue, who was reported, killed in action February 10 somewhere in Italy.
Rev. Harry M. Burns, pastor, officiated at the services. “Corporal Cochran,” said the pastor in speaking of the youth’s sacrifice, “gave his all to save womanhood, manhood and children from slavery and barbarism.”
A member of the Sioux City unit, 133d infantry, of the National Guard, the young corporal served a total of seven years in uniform and had been in action four months until he was killed. He was born March 16, 1918, at Wagner, S.D. and came to Sioux City with his parents when two years of age. He was educated in public schools here. A brother, Hubert Cochran, is in the navy stationed at San Francisco.
Source: The Sioux City Journal, March 27, 1944
Hubert Allen Cochran was born Dec. 28, 1925 to Roy and Alice McFarland Cochran. He died Sept. 4, 2000 and is buried in Graceland Park Cemetery, Sioux City, IA.
Hubert served in World War II with the U.S. Navy.
Source: ancestry.com
