John Jesse and Cora B. Eckersley Whitman Family - Wright Co.
Howard Franklin Whitman was born Aug. 18, 1909. He died Mar. 22, 1985 and is buried in Evergreen Cemetery, Clarion, IA.
Howard served with the U.S. Navy in World War II as a gunner on the USS Davis in the South Pacific.
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Willard Leroy “Bud” Whitman was born Nov. 29, 1900. He died 1980 and is buried in Saint Mark Catholic Cemetery, Iowa Falls, IA.
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Royal “Toby” Whitman was born Aug. 31, 1916. He died Apr. 2, 1982 and is buried in the Lexington Cemetery, Lexington, IL.
Toby and Bud both served with the U.S. Army in World War II. They fought in many of the same battles in Italy but in different units.
Sources: “Ordinary Heroes”, by Judge Newt Draheim, Chapter 36; ancestry.com
