Three Warfield’s in Air Service
Roy Warfield, 2319 E. Solway Street, well known beer distributor here, has received notification from the war department that he has been commissioned as a Captain in the army air corps and has been ordered to report to Miami Beach, Florida. He will leave Friday evening. Later he expects to be stationed at Hamilton field, California.
Captain Warfield is a veteran of the First World War, having served as an army flier. He has two sons in the United States air service now. Roy Warfield, Jr., is a lieutenant, junior grade in the navy air force and Merris Warfield is a first lieutenant in the army air corps.
Source: The Sioux City Journal, July 24, 1942 (photo included)
Roy Merris Warfield was born July 18, 1897 to R. M. and Clara Maude Kearns Warfield. He died Dec. 13, 1967 and is buried in Logan Park Cemetery, Sioux City, IA.
Capt. Warfield served with the U.S. Army Air Corps in World War I and World War II. His sons also served in World War II.
Source: ancestry.com
