Mahoning County OhArchives Obituaries.....Bowling, Charles Theodore "Ted" June 24, 1944 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/oh/ohfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Jennifer L. Neff ffen@zoominternet.net May 29, 2006, 11:07 am Mahoning Dispatch, Fri, 7 July 1944 BOWLING, Charles Theodore “Ted” [Husband of Frances M. nee Orvec Bowling and father of 3m old unseen son, Charles Theodore Bowling Jr.] 1 June 1917 to 24 June 1944 27y 23d “Ted” Bowling Fatally Injured Mrs. Frances M. Bowling, High street, received notification from the War Department last Friday of the death of her husband, Petty Officer Charles Theodore Bowling, 27, which occurred June 24 in the South Pacific area, caused by multiple injuries. No further details were given. Petty Officer Bowling enlisted in the Seabees last October, and following training periods at Camp Peary, Williamsburg, Va., and in California, left for the South Pacific March 12, and since that time had served in that area as an engineer. Mr. Bowling was born in Fairoaks, Pa., June 1, 1917, a son of Mr. and Mrs. W.S. Bowling. He graduated from Salem high school in 1936 and later attended Purdue University. He came here with his family five years ago. Prior to his enlistment he was in partnership with his father in the mechanical engineering business. Surviving, besides his parents, are his wife, the former Miss Frances M. Orvec of Bethlehem, Pa., whom he married March 17, 1943; a son, Charles Theodore Bowling Jr., aged three months, whom he never saw and two brothers, Sgt. John H. Bowling, stationed in England, and William F. Bowling of Chicago. Bowling is the seventh man from this locality known to have lost his life in World War II. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/oh/mahoning/obits/bowling844ob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/ohfiles/ File size: 2.1 Kb