Dr. Charles Patrick Hawkins was born July 20, 1919 to Charles Patrick and Helene Marie Robinson Hawkins. He died June 25, 1981 and is buried in Saint Johns Cemetery, Clarion, IA.
Sgt. Hawkins served in World War II with the U.S. Army as a wire chief in New Guinea and the Philippines.
Sources: “Ordinary Heroes”, by Judge Newt Draheim; ancestry.com