OBIT: Cpl. Joseph Sullivan WILHELM, 1948, native of Somerset County, PA

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JOSEPH S. WILHELM

  Funeral services for Cpl. Joseph Sullivan Wilhelm, who was killed on July 3, 
1944, in La Hayes DuPuits, France, will be held at the Konhaus Funeral Home, 
Meyersdale, at 2 o'clock, Saturday afternoon, May 22.  Rev. J. A. Joyce, pastor 
of the local Christian Church, of which he was a member, will officiate.
  The body will arrive at the Konhaus Funeral Home, Thursday and will remain 
there until after the service Saturday afternoon.  Interment will be made in 
Union Cemetery where full military rites will be accorded by Charles E. Kelly 
Post 114, American Legion, and John C. Tressler Post 3504, Veterans of Foreign 
Wars.
  Cpl. Wilhelm was born in Meyersdale, Nov. 6, 1916, a son of Frank Wilhelm and 
the late Annie (Swindell) Wilhelm.  He was aged 27 years, 7 months and 24 days 
at the time of his death.
  In addition to his father, he is survived by a son, Jerry Dale, and his former 
wife, Mrs. J. R. Harris, Havre de Grace, Md.; a sister, Mrs. Harold Gibson, 
Meyersdale, and his maternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Swindell, also of 
Meyersdale.
  He was inducted into the Army May 29, 1942, at New Cumberland, Pa., and 
trained in this country until the spring of 1944, arriving in England, April 6 
of that year.  He was a mortar gunner in Co. D, 314th Inf., and landed in France 
with the initial invasion forces, the 79th division.

Meyersdale Republican, May 20, 1948