Gladwin County MI Archives Obituaries.....LEVEE, JESSE C. January 12, 1943
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Gladwin County Record dated 06-16/1948 Column 2 Page - 1
LEVEE FUNERAL RITES MONDAY

TOBACCO TWP. SOLDIER RETURNED FOR BURIAL IN BEAVERTON

   Funeral services for Sergeant Jesse LeVee, son of Mr. and Mrs. Hayes C. 
LeVee, of Beaverton township, will be held on Monday afternoon from the 
Beaverton Presbyterian church. The Rev. Reinberg, of Midland, will officiate 
and burial will be in the Beaverton cemetery, under the auspices of the 
Beaverton American Legion Post. Sgt. LeVee was returned from overseas at the 
request of his parents and will arrive in Standish on Thursday morning and be 
brought to the Hall Funeral Home.
   He was the first man in service from the Beaverton area to be reported 
killed in service and the fourth man in Gladwin county to be reported missing 
or killed while a member of the U.S. armed forces in World War II. Sgt. LeVee 
enlisted in the Army Air Corps in Detroit on October 6, 1911, and was a 
mechanic with a bomber crew. He had trained for service in this country for 
some time and had been overseas for several months when he was killed in an 
airplane crash in India on January 12, 1943. He was 22 years old at the time 
of his death and had spent most of his life in Beaverton township, attending 
school there. 
   Surviving are his parents, a brother, Ellis, of Tobacco township; three 
sisters, Mrs. Hazel Horton of Beaverton, Mrs. Elva Hovis and Mrs. Florence 
Bresnahan, of Pontiac. Gladwin County Record dated 06-16/1948 Column 2 Page - 1

   Sergeant Jesse LeVee, 22, of Beaverton township, has been killed in an 
airplane crash in India, according to word received by his parents, Mr. and 
Mrs. H. C. LeVee from the War Department Saturday night. He was the first man 
in service from the Beaverton area to be reported killed in service and the 
fourth man in Gladwin county to be reported missing or killed while a member 
of the U.S. armed forces.
   Sgt. LeVee enlisted in the Army Air Corps in Detroit on October 6, 1941, 
and was a mechanic with a bomber crew. He had trained for service in this 
country for some time and had been overseas for several months. His death 
occurred January 12th according to the telegram received by his parents.
   Jesse had been a resident of Beaverton township most of his life and 
attended school in Beaverton. Surviving are his parents, a brother Ellis, of 
Tobacco township; three sisters, Mrs. Hazel Horton, of Beaverton; Mrs. Elva 
Hovis, of Pontiac; and Mrs. Florence Brenahan, of Pontiac. Gladwin County 
Record dated 06-16 1948 Colum - 2 Page - 1  

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