Pfc. Sanford K. Brown, son of Mr. and Mrs. G. E. Brown, Lakeport road, and Sgt. Richard Fisher, whose parents and wife live in Sioux City, recently met in the Philippines after not having seen each other for three years. They are cousins and had worked in competing business establishments prior to entering service. Pfc. Brown is a cook and baker with antiaircraft artillery searching battalion and Sgt. Fisher is a mechanic assigned to servicing navy Corsairs which the marine fliers use. Both men have been overseas for approximately a year and a half.
Source: The Sioux City Journal, April 28, 1945