SOLDIER NEWS.
Mrs. Edward Pech and Mrs. Henry Ioos have received letters from their brother, Corporal Lawrence Utech, who is stationed somewhere in New Guinea. Cpl. Utech joined the Army 2 ½ years ago, and has been overseas 2 years and 3 months, in Australia and New Guinea. This is the first news they have received from him for 8 weeks, as the mail was held up. He wrote that he is feeling fine, after a vacation in Australia.
Source: LeMars Globe-Post, June 22, 1944
Lawrence Carl Utech was born Apr. 24, 1915 to William and Mary Ann Piepenburg Utech. He died Feb. 8, 2000 and is buried in Daniels County Cemetery, Scobey, Montana.
Source: ancestry.com
