Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Green, Roy A. 1918
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Lake Odessa Wave Times, 6 Sep 1918

Roy A. Green Killed in Action in France
First Orange Boy to Give Life For Country.  Son of Albert Green.

A telegram from the adjutant general to Albert Green, ex-highway commissioner of
Portland and vicinity in Orange, Tuesday, Aug. 27, announced that his son, Roy
A. Green, had been killed in action August 1st.  He was a member of Company D,
126th Infantry, and was killed on the same day that Private Richard Atwell of
Portland received severe wounds to one of his legs.  The boys were members of
the same company and regiment indicating that the 126th has been in the very
thickest of the fighting.

The death of Private Green puts the first gold star on Orange township’s service
flag.  He was 22 years of age and was inducted into the military service Sept.
19, 1917 with the first contingent of drafted men to leave Ionia county.  He was
trained at Camp Custer and then sent to Camp McArthur, at Waco, Tex., leaving
Camp Merritt, N.J., on his voyage across the ocean in February.

Besides his father, the young soldier is survived by a brother, Floyd Green, of
Portland and a sister, Mrs. Arthur Goodenough of Odessa township.  Roy was
living with his father when called into service.  The mother died recently and
the father and son were all in all to each other.

[Transcriber's Note:  There is a notation on the obituary card that he was
buried in Portland Cemetery.]


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