Cedar County

 

Sgt. Everett Francis Kline

 

 

Everett Francis Kline was born Mar. 19, 1916 to William M. and Frona M. Cruse Kline. He died July 28, 1944 and is buried in Rose Hill Cemetery, Mechanicsville, IA. He was initially buried in the St. Laurent sur Mer Cemetery #1, France.

Sgt. Kline served in World War II with the U.S. Army and was KIA when the tank destroyer in which he was riding sustained damage from a German anti-tank gun. He was the commander of a M-10 tank destroyer and was taking his destroyer down a road at La Chapelle, France, over which no Americans had previously travelled.

Source: ancestry.com