Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Close, W. Lane, 1945 

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WINDER LANE CLOSE

SUPREME SACRIFICE MADE FOR COUNTRY

   Lane Close, 19 year old son of Mr. and Mrs. W. Kenneth Close of Sedley, 
died February 27, in Germany of wounds received the previous day.  He was 
Private First Class in Co. A, 134th Infantry serving under General Patton 
in the Third Army.  He had been overseas since November and in active combat 
since the first of December.  In addition to his father and mother, he is 
survived by five brothers and three sisters.  He was a nephew of George J. 
Lane of Franklin with whom he made his home while attending Franklin High 
School.  While there, he was active in school athletics, graduating in the 
class of 1943.


PFC Winder Lane CLOSE, Co. A, 134th Infantry, Third Army, 
Southampton Co. native, WIA 26 Feb 1945, DOW 27 Feb 1945, Germany, age 19, 
interred in Margraten, the Netherlands, 
marked in Riverside Cemetery (Section II, Plot 56*), Courtland, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Mar. 16, 1945, p. 1 

A photo of Lane was included with the news item. 

*Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, 
   Riverside list: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/riverside.txt 

His father's obit ("Tidewater News," Jan. 4, 1952, p. 4) is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/c420w1ob.txt 


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Mrs. Bruce Saunders (bs4403@verizon.net), 
and re-formatted by File Manager. 

file at: 
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