Champaign County OhArchives Obituaries.....Biddle, Nelson Arthur September 9, 1951
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Urbana Daily Citizen 27-Sep-1951
obit-Urbana Daily Citizen 27-Sep-1951 pg 1
COUNTY SOLDIER IS KILLED IN KOREA
Nelson Biddle, 22 year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Norman A Biddle, Urbana route two, h
two, has been killed in action in Korea.
One of the two Biddle sons in the armed forces, he was a private first class with 
with the 35th infantry Regiment.
News of his death was received by Mrs. Biddle today in a telegram from the Secr
Secretary of Defense.
a 1948 graduate of Concord school, Biddle entered the Army in December 1950, and
and received basic training and Camp Breckenridge, Kentucky.
Before entering the service, he was employed by the Standard Oil filling st
station on Water street in Urbana.
Previously he had worked four years for C.W. Blankenship on 213 Miami Street i
including summer vacations while he was still in school
His brother Seaman Apprentice Charles R Biddle, enlisted in the Navy last 
November and is a torpedoman's mated aboard the USS Prairie in the Pacific.
Born June 6, 1929, Nelson attended Concord school from the sixth grade on and w
was a member of the basketball and baseball teams.  He also attended Westville s
school
Four of his younger brothers and sisters were in Concord school this morning 
and were unaware of the tragedy.  They are Phyllis, a senior and Raymond, Wilma 
and Donna Biddle 

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