Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Shellenbarger, Roy Pvt. January 18, 1945
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Lake Odessa Wave-Thurs. August 28, 1945

MEMORIAL SERVICES HELD FOR ROY SHELLENBARGER SUNDAY
Relative and friends paid respect to the memory of Pvt. Roy Shellenbarger at a 
memorial service held at Calvary U.B. church Sunday afternoon. A profusion of 
beautiful flowers bespoke the esteem in which he had been held.

Mrs. Merlin G. Morgan spoke of Roy's school life, the Rev. Ronald A Hoffman of 
Lansing gave the sermon assisted by the Rev. Paul Olmstead. Dale Bartlett 
sounded taps at the close of the service.

Those from out of town who were in attendance were Mrs.Patricia Hansen of 
Greenville, Mr and Mrs Orrie Cahoon and Joan of Belding, Mr and Mrs Robert 
Babcock of Flint, Mr and Mrs J. Wesley Desgranges of Eaton Rapids, Mr and Mrs 
Riste Temelco, Mr and Mrs Merie Hoy, Mr and Mrs Dale Truesdale, Clyde Brand, 
Robert Sailer and Keith McVeigh all of Ionia, and Mrs frank Desgranges of Ohio.

Among the valued remembrances Mr and Mrs David Shellenbarger have of their son 
Roy is a diary he had kept from the time he enlisted, October 1, 1940, until a 
few days before his death in January 1945. Among various items and dates he 
mentioned the fall of Corrigedor - his being taken prisoner; the receipt of Red 
Cross boxes, bombings close by; letters from home; his illness of beri beri; 
meals on Christmas day; blood plasma transfusions he received and of finally 
being sent to the prison hospital. Also with the diary is a poem in which he 
told of his faith in God and the hope for a quick release.

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Lakeside Cem.#6-781-3

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