To Hold Rites for John Mulick
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ALTA VISTA – Memorial services will be held at St. Patrick’s Catholic church at St. Cecelia Saturday morning at 10:30 o’clock for John Mark Mulick, who was killed in action at Pearl Harbor Dec. 7. John B. Mulick, father of the deceased, last week received a message from the bureau of navigation declaring his son officially dead.
John Mulick was born March 27, 1920, and besides his father is survived by one sister, Mrs. Andrew Balk of Elma, and two brothers, Private Joseph Mulick and Robert Mulick. He was graduated from the Immaculate Conception academy at Elma in 1938 and enlisted in the U. S. navy Sept. 23, 1940.
He was the second young man from this vicinity officially known to have been killed at Pearl Harbor. Paul F. Johnann, a son of Mr. and Mrs. Peter Johann, was reported by the navy department to have been killed during the same attack.
Source: The Globe Gazette, Mason City, Iowa, Wednesday, February 25, 1942
John Mark Mulick was born Mar. 27, 1920 to John B. and Margaret Morrissey Mulick. He died Dec. 7, 1941 and is memorialized at the Courts of the Missing, Honolulu Memorial, Honolulu, Hawaii and at the USS Oklahoma Memorial, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
Petty Officer Mulick served in World War II with the U.S. Navy aboard the USS Oklahoma (BB-27) and died in the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. His body has been accounted for by the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency on Nov. 18, 2019.
Source: ancestry.com
