Wallace Wehrli, boatswain’s mage first class, 23, was killed in action March 18, while serving aboard a ship in the South Pacific, according to word received from the War Department by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Burl Wehrli, former Sioux Cityans now living in Bothell, Wash.
Source: The Sioux City Journal, April 2, 1945 (photo included)
Wallace Herman Wehrli was born Mar. 30, 1921 to Paul Edson and Bertha Belle Pettit Wehrli. He died Mar. 17, 1945 and is buried in Acacia Memorial Park, Seattle, WA.
Source: ancestry.com
