OBIT: Robert E. PEARCE, 1944, Juniata, Blair County, PA

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Juniata Hero's Body Arriving For Reburial

  The body of Pvt. Robert E. Pearce of 714 Seventh avenue, Juniata, who was 
killed in action Nov. 15, 1944, in France, will arrive in Altoona tomorrow 
evening at 6.10 o'clock, from the Philadelphia army depot. Pvt. Pearce's body 
was among those recently returned from the European theatre aboard the transport 
U.S.S. Oglethorpe.
  Interment will be made Wednesday afternoon at 1 o'clock in the cemetery at 
Ansonville, Pa., from the Korns funeral home, Juniata.
  Pvt. Pearce was born in Madera May 13. 1923, a son of the late Russell and 
Elizabeth (Nelson) Pear. He moved to Altoona with his family when he was 2 years 
old, attending the local schools and graduating front Altoona High school in the 
class of 1941.
  He entered the service Jan. 25, 1943, training first at Aberdeen, Md., in the 
ordnance branch, but later was selected for specialized training, studying at 
Virginia Polytechnic institute and then at William and Mary college. Pvt. Pearce 
was within a few weeks of completing his basic engineer studies at the latter 
institution when the college program was abandoned. Transfering to the infantry, 
he trained at Indiantown Gap, going overseas from a camp in the New England 
states Aug. 11, 1944.
  Prior to entering the service Pvt. Pearce was employed as a machinist 
apprentice in the Juniata shops, Pennsylvania railroad, He was a member of the 
Juniata Presbyterian church.
  He is survived only by his mother.

Altoona Mirror, Monday, August 9, 1948, pages 1, 11