CEDAR COUNTY, NEBRASKA - OBITUARY OF OLIVER BOHLKEN ==================================================================== NEGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, data may be used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or for presentation by other persons or organizations. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for purposes other than stated above must obtain the written consent of the file contributor. This file was contributed for use in the NEGenWeb Archives by Kristi Bergman Lam Permission granted by: Rob Dump, Editor, Cedar County News ====================================================================== Cpl. Oliver J. Bohlken Dies in Belgium January 8 ---------- WAS PARATROOPER ---------- A second son of Mr. and Mrs. George Bohlken, who live southeast of Hartington, has been killed in action in Europe. The war department advised the Bohlkens last Thursday that their son, Cpl. Oliver J. Bohlken, 25, a paratrooper, had been killed in action Janaury 8 [1944] in Belgium. Their oldest son, Gerald, was killed in action in France last June 12. In addition to his parents, Cpl. Bohlken is survived by two brothers in the service, Bruce, who is attending a navy school at the University of California, and Paul, on the U.S.S. Sherbourne; another brother, Jule Dean, at home, and his fiancee, Miss Doris Bunce of Leicester, England. Cpl. Bohlken had been in the army since 1941 and had been overseas 22 months. After receiving training at Camp Wolters, Tex., Ft. Benning, Ga., and Ft. Bragg, N.C., he went to Africa in March, 1943, and participated in the North Africa and Sicily invasions. He was wounded in Sicily in July 1943 and was awarded the Purple Heart Medal. He was at the Anzio beachhead and fought during much of the Italian campaign. He was sent to England for a rest and since September had been in continental Europe where he participated in airborne invasions into Germany, France and Belgium. Before entering the service, Cpl. Bohlken was engaged in farmning. He played several seasons with the Coleridge baseball team. The Bohlkens are the second Cedar county parents to have two sons killed during the present war. Mr. and Mrs. Ed Hoseing of Menomninee have also lost two sons, Sgt. Paul, who was killed in France last September 30, and Sgt. Robert, who was killed in October 1943 in a truck-motorcycle accident during maneuvers in Kansas. JANUARY 1944 - CEDAR COUNTY NEWS