Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Downing, Frederick Paul  February 23, 1945
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Norfolk Virginian Pilot June 3, 1948

              F. P. DOWNING TO BE REBURIED ; DIED IN ACTION

        First Lieutenant Killed On Flight in Egypt; Services Saturday

The body of First Lt. Frederick Paul Downing, AAF, 27, who was killed February 
23, 1945, on a flight between Khartoum and Cairo, Egypt, will arrive in Norfolk 
today.
He was the son of Fred Downing and of Mrs. Ruth Elliott Downing. 
A native of Norfolk, he was a graduate of Holy Trinity High School and of 
Calvert Hall College, Baltimore. An instrument maker at the Naval Air Station 
before enlisting in the AAF in December, 1941, he received his wings and 
commission at the Columbus Air Base, Columbus, Miss., in January, 1943.
He was a member of the Sacred Heart Catholic Church, the Holy Name Society and 
of Aircraft Local No. 716, International Association of Machinists.
Besides his parents, survivors include a brother, James H. Downing, a sister, 
Mrs. Robert F. Barnum and his maternal grandmother, Mrs. Sarah E. Elliott.
He will be taken from the home of his parents at 207 West 37th Street to Sacred 
Heart Church, where funeral services will be conducted Saturday at 10 a.m. 
Burial will be in St. Mary's Cemetery. Rosary services will be conducted at the 
residence tomorrow at 8 p.m.
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Funeral services for Lieutenant Downing, son of Fred and Mrs. Ruth Elliott 
Downing, were held yesterday at 10 a.m. at Sacred Heart Catholic Church, with 
the Rev. Edward W. Johnston, pastor, officiating. The Rev. Joseph V. Brennan, 
the Rev. B. J. McKenna, the Rev. Francis Klemmer and the Rev. John J. Bannon 
were present in the sanctuary. Burial was in St. Mary’s Cemetery. A volley was 
fired by a firing squad and a bugler sounded "taps" at the grave. Pallbearers 
were Thomas D. Crump, A. E. Price, Jr., John F. Piedmont, David B. Lawrence, 
Jr., Alvah Hyslop, Jr., and Edward R. Remstedt.

Norfolk Virginian-Pilot  June 6, 1948

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