Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Edwards, Glen K. 1949
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Carson City Gazette, 24 Nov 1949

Reburial Rites at Palo For Flight Officer Glen Edwards

Funeral and burial services for Flight Officer Glen K. Edwards, son of Flora M.
and H. Evelyn Edwards, Rural Route 1, Ionia, Michigan will be held from the
Methodist church, Palo, Michigan, at 2:30 o’clock, Sunday afternoon, November
27, 1949.

F/O Edwards was born June 29, 1921, at the family home in Bushnell Township,
Montcalm County, and was educated in the Public School as a member of the class
of 1938.  After graduation, he worked with his father on the family farm in
Ronald township, Ionia county, until March 20, 1941, when he enlisted in the
United States Army Air Forces.  After basic and mechanic training at Chanute
Field, Illinois, he was transferred, as an aircraft mechanic, to Lincoln,
Nebraska.  There he passed his entry examination and was sent to Texas as an Air
Cadet for flight training.  On August 30, 1943, at Lubbock Field, Texas, he was
commissioned a Second Lieutenant with a pilot’s rating, and recommended for
bomber service.  After further training at Arizona Fields, he flew, on December
20, 1943, for overseas duty with the 15th Air Force, then based in Africa.

Moving to newly activated fields in Italy, he was advanced to the rank of Flight
Officer, and served with the bomber squadrons assaulting the German held
territory.  He was killed in action on March 19, 1944, and the first burial was
at a small village near Belgrade, Yugoslavia.

He is survived by his mother and father; two sisters, Dorothy and Carol; five
brothers, Vere, Harold, Donald, Keith and Kenneth; by aunts, uncles and cousins,
as well as a large group of friends throughout the community.

Burial services will be with full military honors under the direction of the
veterans organizations of the area.  The casket bearers will be veteran friends
of F/O Edwards, including all the remaining men of the Class of 1938, Palo High
School.  Arrangements for the services are in charge of the Stebbins Funeral
Home, Sheridan, who received the casket from the Quartermaster’s Depot on Friday.


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