Jackson-Jones County IA Archives Military Records.....Edwards, Pvt. Thomas E. November 16, 1944
WWII U. S. Army
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Pvt. Tom Edwards Killed In Action
Maquoketa Community Press, November 16, 1944

Pvt. Tom Edwards Killed In Action

Word has been received from the War Department by Mrs. Thomas Edwards of 
Monmouth, that her husband, Pvt. Thomas E. Edwards, was killed in action on 
August 31, 1944, in France.

Pvt. Edwards was born on April 28, 1912, at Wyoming, Iowa, and graduated from 
the Monmouth High School, and attended Loras College, Dubuque. Most of his 
life was spent in the Monmouth community where he was engaged in farming with 
his brother.

On April 7, 1942 he was united in marriage with Miss Virginia Eganhouse of 
Monmouth. The home was made in Davenport where Pvt. Edwards was engaged in 
defense work until his induction in the Army on November 27, 1942. He was sent 
to Fort Knox, Kentucky in the Armored Division. After fifteen months he was 
sent to Fort George Meade, Maryland, later to an embarkation station in New 
York, from which he was sent to England and from there to France.

Word was received on September 18, 1944, that Pvt. Edwards was missing in 
action since August 31st, and on November 8th a telegram was received that Tom 
had been reported killed since August 31, 1944.

Survivors besides his wife are two children, Constance Ann, two years old and 
Thomas, Jr., six months old, who has never seen his father, his mother, Mrs. 
Anna L. Edwards, one brother Joseph, and two sisters, Mrs. Helen O’Hara of 
Wyoming, and Mary Catherine Kehoe, of Hopkinton, and seven nieces and nephews.

A requiem high mass will be held at Holy Trinity Catholic Church in Baldwin, 
November 18, at 9:30 a.m. by Rev. E. A. Kurth.


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