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)
Capt. Merris Warfield, son of Mrs. Roy M. Warfield, Jr., 2306 Douglas Street, now is at a convalescent hospital at Fort George Wright, Wash., after 12 months in the European theater. He served as a pilot on a B-26 with the Ninth air force and has been awarded the air medal.
Source: The Sioux City Journal, unknown date of publication
Merris Richard Warfield was born Mar. 9, 1917 to Roy Merris and Daisy JoAnn Lemke Warfield. He died Mar. 27, 1979 and is buried in Logan Park Cemetery, Sioux City, IA.
Capt. Warfield served with the U.S. Army Air Corps in World War II.
Source: ancestry.com
