The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-11-21

FVt. Feapody AIT Base stood
as color guards and Mrs. John B.
Chaddock played the pipe organ.
Outstanding floral arrangement
was large wreath with the picture
OF "Bud" In the center. The wreath
was placed on the chancel steps.
Thomas Barnes and Carl Stanton
played taps.
Commander r. ]. Esslinger, who
has been with the Bureau OF Naval
Personnel, Washington, d. c., for
two years, will leave next week
for the West Coast where he will
await further orders. While he is
away his family will reside In Ypsi.
lanti.
Pfc. Kathleen Kissane OF the
U.S.M.C.WR. is home this week
on furlough. She Is located in
Washington, D. c., at the Navy An.
mex Bldg.
The engagement Is announced OF
Ensign Wallace George LutZ, U.s.
Mr., son Of Mr.. and Mrs. Karl Lutz.
He is a Normal College graduate
and member of Phi Sigma Epsilon
fraternity, and will marry Miss
Marguerite Erdley, daughter OF Mr..
and Mrs. Nelson Mckinley Smith,
Trenton, a graduate of Western
College OF Education at Kalama-
200 and member Of Theta Pi Alpha
sorority. Ensign Lutz is now home
on a leave after ten. months in the
South Pacific.
Flight Officer Robert w. Moffett
Of the Army Air Corps, who COM
pleted his course Nov. l3 at Hondo
Field, Texas, has been spending a
furlough with hts parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. d. H. Moffett, and will report
to LeMoore Field, Cal. Wednes-
day. going by plane.
Yeoman First Class Charles
Bone Is spending a 15-day leave
with his parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
William Bone. He has just COM
pleted course OF instruction in
California as seaplane tender.
He will leave Wednesday for San
Pedro, Cal. to await assignment
to a new ship.
Diesel engine instruction will be
the next phase of training given to
John E. Davidson, son OF Mr.. and
Mrs. John A. Davidson, OF 326 E.
Kingsley St., Ann Arbor, who was
recently transferred to the Naval
Training School OF Richmond. Va.
Fireman &c Davidson who en-
tered the Navy last June, the day
following graduation from the Ypsi-
lanu High School, has at present
completed both boot training and
course In basic engineering at
Great Lakes, Ill. While attending
High School he lived at 704 Con.
gress st.
Captain and Mrs. NJ. L. Henry
and their three month old son, Jun.
ior, arrived in Ypsilanti Saturday,
from Midland, Texas, and will spend
the Thanksgiving holiday with Cap
tain Henry's parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
V. +. Henry at 31S w. Cross st.
Captain Henry is on II day leave
from the Army Air Forces training
school at Midland.
Pvt. Harold Meyer was home
over the weekend from Camp
Grant, ILL.,, where German prisoners
are encamped. Pvt. Meyer, who is
on guard duty there, says that the
Germans were captured during the
operations in North Africa, and
most OF them are older men than
the U. s. guards over them. The
discipline is strict, he says, and
every day the men are counted TO
insure against escape. The guards
are in towers on each corner OF the |
prison camp, and for any infraction |
of discipline the Germans are fed
bread and water thirty days.
Pvt. Lyle Atkinson, son OF Mrs. |
Annie Atkinson, Merritt Rd., has
been transferred from Camp Rob-
inson, Ark, to field artillery at
Fort Bragg, N Carolina.