OBITUARY: Elmo Roy Sturgill, Jackson County, Oregon ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/or/orfiles.htm ********************************************************************************* Transcribed and formatted for use in USGenWeb Archives by Elizabeth Corethers 19 Jan 2003 *************************************************************************** Medford (Oregon) Mail Tribune, Sunday, 9 Jan 1944, p. 4 ELMO R. STURGILL PASSES IN ARMY Elmo R. Sturgill, technician fourth grade with an infantry unit in New Guinea for the past year and a half, died in an army hospital in Brisbane, Australia, Dec. 14 according to a message received by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Sturgill, Oregon Orchard, Phoenix, Saturday morning. St. Sturgill, an army cook, had suffered a nervous breakdown and had been in the hospital for some time. St. Sturgill, who enlisted in the Oregon National Guard and left Medford in the fall of 1941 with the Medford unit, attended Medford and Phoenix schools as a boy and was a graduate of the Phoenix high school. Surviving are his parents, a younger brother, Richard, at home; an uncle, Charles Sturgill of Rt. 2, Box 331, Medford; his grandmother, Mrs. Rose Sturgill and an aunt, Mrs. Alma Grow, 220 South Grape St., Medford and his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Dunithan of Missouri. Medford (Oregon) Mail Tribune, Tuesday, 6 Jan 1944, p. 6 Elmo Roy Sturgill, technician fourth grade, with an infantry unit in New Guinea and Australia for the past year and a half, died in an army hospital in Brisbane, Australia, Dec. 14, after two months' illness. Sgt. Sturgill was born at Hydro, Okla., Jan. 24, 1920, and came to Medford with his parents in 1923. He graduated from Phoenix high school in 1940. Sgt. Sturgill enlisted in the Oregon National Guard in September, 1940, and received military training at Ft. Lewis, Wash., going overseas in May, 1942. Surviving are his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Sturgill, and one brother, Richard, of Oregon Orchards, Medford; three grandparents, Mrs. Rose Sturgill of Medford, and Mr. and Mrs. N. G. Dunithan of Harwood, Mo.; an aunt, Mrs. Alma Grow, and an uncle, Charles Sturgill of Medford; an aunt, Mrs. Cletice Roe, and two uncles, Cecil Dunithan and E. N. Dunithan of California; an uncle, E. J. Dunithan of Kansas City, and an aunt, Mrs. Gladys Niehues, and an uncle, Maynard Dunithan, both of Hydro.