Cpl. Michael Bruce Spicer Vietnam Casualty

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Cpl. Michael Bruce Spicer was a Radio Telephone Operator (RTO) with the 1st. Platoon, 1st. Armored Amphibious Company, 11th Marine, 1st Marine Division, III Marine Expeditionary Force. Cpl. Spicer was killed by hostile small arms fire when his patrol was ambushed. He left behind a wife, Janis (Eshman) Spicer, and young daughter, Julie Spicer (14 months old).
SpicerMCpl. Spicer was awarded the Purple Heart. He is buried in the Woods Section of the Marion Cemetery. Cpl. Michael Bruce Spicer’s name in listed on the Vietnam Honor Roll, at the Marion Veterans Memorial Park, west side of the Marion County Courthouse and The Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall, on Panel 42E/Line 024.

Cpl. Michael B. Spicer is also remembered on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, at the Marion County Admin building at 222 West Center St. in Marion, Ohio.

From the Marion Star dated 3-8-1968

4th County War Victim
Cpl. Spicer Killed
On Vietnam Patrol

Grief once again came to Kensington Pl. from Vietnam Thursday.
For the second time in four months, men in uniform stopped on the quiet street on Marion’s far east side. They knocked on a door with a grim message.
This time the news was as shocking as the last, Marine Cpl. Michael Spicer had been killed in Vietnam.
Two Marine officers from Columbus informed Cpl. Spicer’s wife, Janis, that her husband was mortally wounded March 1 when his patrol was ambushed.
Mrs. Spicer and her 14-month-old daughter were staying at 186 Kensington Pl. with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Paul Eshman, waiting for “Mike” to come home.

SpicerMBLAST NOVEMBER, the Walter R. Warnes, a half-block down the street learned their son, Pfc. Dennis E. Warne, had been killed in Vietnam.
Cpl. Spicer, 21, became the fourth Marion Countian to be killed in action in Vietnam.
He was the son of Mrs. Doris Spicer of 640 1/2 S. Prospect St. and Don Spicer, who now is in Italy.

PEOPLE who did not know Cpl. Spicer may remember him. His picture appeared on the front page of The Marion Star on Valentine’s Day last month.
His wife and little daughter Julie were photographed looking at his picture. They had sent him a sentimental, heart-shaped card for Valentine’s Day.
Today Mrs. Spicer received a telegram from the commandant of the Marine Corps in Washington confirming Cpl. Spicer’s death. It said that he was killed in the vicinity of Quang Tri after receiving a gunshot wound to the body from hostile gunfire while on patrol.

THE PROVENTIAL capital of Quang Tri is located about seven miles south of the north eastern frontier of South Vietnam near the demilitarized zone.
Cpl. Spicer, stationed with the Marines at Da Nang since last October, was a 1964 graduate of Harding High School.
Also surviving is a sister, Mrs. Richard (Sheila) Christopher of Cuyahoga Falls.

From The Marion Star February 14, 1968SpicerM002

Pfc. Dennis Eugene Warne Vietnam Casualty

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Private First Class Dennis E. Warne was killed in the Quang Tin Province South Vietnam, while serving with the 35th Infantry, 4th Infantry Division. He was aboard a UH-1 helicopter while on an air assault mission.The helicopter was reported shot down by a recoilless rifle. Warne was awarded the Purple Heart and Bronze Star (Valor).

Pfc. Warne is buried in the Marion Cemetery and his name is listed on the Vietnam Honor Roll, at Marion Veterans Memorial Park, on the west side of the Marion County Courthouse and on the Vietnam Memorial Wall, Panel 29E, Line 093.

Pfc. Dennis E. Warne is also remembered on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, at the Marion County Admin building at 222 West Center St. in Marion, Ohio.

WarneDFrom the Marion Star dated November 17, 1967

Dennis E. Warne, 19

Marion Man Dies
In Vietnam Action

The thoughts of Army Reserve Col. Walter R. Warne must have turned to his son in Vietnam as he marched with others through a steady downpour last Saturday in Marion’s Veterans Day parade.
Mrs. Warne was planning to send Christmas cards with her son standing proudly in his Army uniform in a family portrait.
Now neither the cards nor Christmas will be the same at the Warne house at 243 Kensington Pl.

THE WARNES learned Thursday afternoon their son, Pfc Dennis E. Warne, 19, has become the third Marion County boy to be killed in action in Vietnam.
A sergeant from the Army Reserve Center at Mansfield came to the Warne home to notify the family officially.
The shocking news followed a telegram the family had received Thursday morning from Washington which reported Pfc Warne had been missing in Vietnam since Monday.
It expressed the deepest regrets of the Secretary of the Army.

THE TELEGRAM said Pfc Warne last was seen as a passenger aboard a military aircraft on a combat assault operation when it was hit by hostile recoilless rifle fire and crashed.
“A search is in progress, ” the telegram said.
Pfc Warne had been home on leave in September. He left for Vietnam Sept 24. He was stationed with Company B, 1st Battalion, 35th Infantry, 3rd Brigade, 4th Infantry Division.

Dennis attended Pearl St. and George Washington elementary schools, Eber Baker Junior High and was graduated from Harding High School in 1965.
Yesterday’s news overshadowed another announcement. Doug Warne, one of the couple’s three sons, today was given honorable mention on the all-Buckeye Conference football team as a defensive end.

Dennis became the second Marion Countian killed in combat in Vietnam in the last five weeks. Pfc. Larry Lee Gaskins, 20, of 1131 Woodbine Ave., died Oct. 8 of wounds suffered while on combat operation with the 101st Airborne Division.
Pfc. Warne was born May 12, 1947, in Omaha, Neb. The family moved to Marion in May 1953.
Besides his parents and brother, Doug, Dennis leaves another brother, Gary, also at home.

Cpl. Larry Lee Gaskins Vietnam Casualty

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Pfc. Larry L. Gaskins served in the 101st Airborne Division “Screamin’ Eagles,” in 2nd Platoon, A Company, 2nd Battalion of the 327th Infantry. He was killed in Antenna Valley, 4 kilometers east of Hiep Duc Village, by enemy small arms fire. Pfc Gaskins was posthumously promoted to Corporal and received the Purple Heart.

Cpl. Gaskins is buried in Glendale Cemetery, in Cardington, Ohio. His name is listed on the Vietnam Honor Roll, at the Marion Veterans Memorial Park, on the west side of the Marion County Courthouse and on the Vietnam Memorial Wall, Panel 27E, Line 071.

Cpl. Larry L. Gaskins is also remembered on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, at the Marion County Admin building at 222 West Center St. in Marion, Ohio.

From the Marion Star October 12, 1967

County’s Second Death
Marion Man Killed
In Vietnam Fighting

Notification of the death of Pfc. Larry Lee Gaskins, 20, of 1131 Woodbine Ave. has been received from Washington, DC, by his widow, Anna Lee Culwell Gaskins, and his parents, Francis and Viola Faust Gaskins of the Woodbine Ave. address.
He died in Vietnam Sunday of a wound suffered while on combat operations. He was hit by hostile automatic weapons fire, according to the telegram sent from the office of Maj. Gen. Kenneth G. Wickham.
GaskinsAn Elgin High School graduate of 1966, Pfc Gaskins had been employed at Quaker Oats Co. before entering service. He completed advanced infantry training at Ft. Gordon, Ga., and paratroop training at Ft. Benning, Ga. On July 9, he left for Vietnam and was participating in an operation of the 101st Airborne Division at the time of his death. He was a rifleman with Company A.
Surviving besides his widow and parents are a daughter, Patricia Lynn; a brother Russell of 701 S. Prospects St., and two sisters, Kathy and Sandy at home.
M.H. Gunder Sons Funeral Home is handling arrangements.
Pfc. Gaskins was Marion County’s second casualty of Vietnam fighting. Pfc Alan H. Schultz died in action on New Year’s Day.

Pfc. Allan Henry Schulz Vietnam Casualty

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PFC. Allan Henry Schulz was thought to be Marion, Ohio’s, first soldier killed in action in Vietnam. Bruce Nystrom was M.I.A. prior to Schulz being killed and Nystrom is still unaccounted for as of this writing.

Schulz was born in Marion, Ohio, on 19 February 1947. Schulz graduated from Marion Harding High School in 1965. Schulz entered service with the United States Army on 24 May 1966. He had been previously employed with Whirlpool Corporation, Marion Division.

Schulz was in Vietnam about a month and serving with A Company, 2-16 Rangers, Under the 1st Infantry Division. Pfc. Schulz was killed on 1 January 1967, during a 48-hour New Year Truce, which officially ended the day after he was killed.

Schulz, Allan Henry Parents medals
Parents of Pfc. Allan Schulz receive medals posthumously.

Allan Henry Schulz, who was only 19 years old at the time of death, was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Roy M. Schulz. Allan H. Schulz had a sister, Marie Rosebrough, and a brother Harold R. Schulz.

Pfc. Allan H. Schulz was posthumously awarded the Bronze Star and the Purple Heart. The awards were presented to his parents.

Private First Class Allan Henry Schulz is buried in St. Mary’s Catholic Cemetery. Private First Class Allan Henry Schulz’s name is listed on the Vietnam Honor Roll, at Marion Veterans Memorial Park, on the west side of the Marion County Courthouse and on Panel 13E Line 106 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall.

Pfc. Allan H. Schulz is also remembered on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial at the Marion County Admin building at 222 West Center St. in Marion, Ohio.
From the Marion Star dated January 4, 1967

County’s First Fatality
Marion Soldier, 19,
Killed on Viet Duty

Army Pfc. Allan H. Schulz has become the first Marion County boy to be killed in action in Vietnam War.
Schulz, 19, a 1965 graduate of Marion Harding High School, died New Year’s Day as a result of wounds suffered while on security patrol the Defense Department informed his parents.

SchulzThe Parents, Mr. and Mrs. Roy M. Schulz of 303 Windsor St. received a telegram from Washington saying their son’s patrol was engaged by hostile forces employing small arms fire.
Ironically, the Marion soldier’s death came during the 48 hour New Year truce which officially ended the next day, Monday, Jan. 2, at 7 am Saigon time.
Funeral services for Pfc. Schulz are to be held in St. Mary Church after the arrival of the body from Vietnam. The body was to be put on the first available military airlift and accompanied by military escort to Marion.

Schulz had been in Vietnam for about a month. He was a member of Company A, 2-16 Rangers. U.S. 1st Division, “The Big Red One.”
In becoming Marion County’s first combat death of the Vietnam War Schulz joins 16 Marion Countians who died in Korea, 162 who were killed in World War II and 76 who lost their lives in World War I.
The 19-year-old soldier entered the Army on May 24, 1966. Before that he was employed by the Marion Division of Whirlpool Corp.

PFC. Schulz was listed by the Defense Department Tuesday among 72 more U.S. servicemen killed in action in Vietnam. Four others were Ohioans, Pfc. Robert Rathbun of Mansfield, Pfc. Lucco Allen, Jr. of Columbus, Spec 4 Ralph L. Henderson of Cleveland and Pfc. James E. Gordon of Cincinnati.
The Schulz family first was informed of their son’s death Monday afternoon by and Army sergeant who came to the home. The family later received the telegram from Washington.

SURVIVORS besides the parents include a sister, Mrs. Rose Marie Rosenbrough of 265 Brentwood Dr., and a brother, Harold R. Schulz of 687 N. Main St.

Pfc Schulz was born in Marion on Feb. 19, 1947.

Funeral arrangements will be made by M.H. Gunder Sons Funeral Home.

Molly McMahon World War One Nurse

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Mary “Molly” Imelda McMahon, Marion, Ohio’s only female on the Honor Rolls. Mary was born on 29 November 1881. Her parents are John & Bridget (Halloran) McMahon, of Ironton, Ohio. She graduated from nursing in 1908. She was a nurse in Ironton and Fort Wayne, Indiana prior to coming to Marion. Mary worked at the Sawyer Sanatorium for 12 years. She worked in the mental department at the White Oaks farm.

Mary “Molly” McMahon was a Marion resident when she became a member of the Army Nurse Corps. Mary saw service at Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia prior to being assigned to Camp Jackson, South Carolina. She was later assigned to care for soldiers suffering with the Spanish Influenza at Camp Jackson. It was there that she contracted the flu and died shortly thereafter. In the news article we can see that she was highly regarded in Marion. She was an active member of St. Mary Catholic Church, Marion, Ohio.

Mary McMahon died on 4 October 1918 in Columbia, Richland County, South Carolina and was later buried Sacred Heart Cemetery Ironton, Lawrence County, Ohio.

She is the only woman listed on the Honor Rolls of Marion County Veterans. She is listed on the WWI Honor Rolls at the Marion Veterans Memorial Park and also the Honor Roll on the second floor of the Marion County Court House.

From the Marion Daily Star October 5, 1918

ANOTHER HEROINE AMONG
VICTIMS OF INFLUENZA

Mary McMahon Dies at Camp
Jackson, South Carolina.

FORMERLY EMPLOYED IN
MARION AS A NURSE

Body Will Be Taken to Ironton
for Burial – Marion Friends
Are Shocked.

Miss Mary McMahon, a former nurse at the Sawyer sanatorium, has paid the supreme sacrifice, giving up her life yesterday, while in the service of her country. She died at 2 p.m. at Camp Jackson, South Carolina, of pneumonia as a consequence of Spanish Influenza, contracted while caring for the soldier boys who have fallen victims to the epidemic.
The news of Miss McMahon’s untimely death came as a shock to her many friends here, as she was very well liked and a most commendable young woman. She was an efficient nurse and regarded very highly by the management of the Sawyer sanatorium and citizens with whom she became acquainted during the time she did private nursing here during her senior year in training school as well as by a wide circle of admiring friends.
Comes from Ironton.
Miss McMahon was about thirty-four years of age and came here from Ironton in 1905 to enter the training school for nurses at the Sawyer sanatorium. She graduated from there in 1908, after which she followed private nursing for four years in Ironton and Ft. Wayne, and then returned to the sanatorium to take up special work in the mental department. She continued in this special work at the sanatorium until the last week in August, when she returned to her home at Ironton for a three-weeks rest, having volunteered her services to the government. After being at home several weeks she was called to Ft. Oglethorpe, Georgia, for one week and then ordered to Camp Jackson, where she died about three days after her arrival.
Surviving Relatives.
Miss McMahon was a communicant of St. Mary’s Catholic church. She is survived by her parents, who reside at Ironton; two sisters and one brother at home and one brother in service in France.
The remains will be taken to Ironton for burial. Miss Myrtle Harris, superintendent of nurses, and Miss Mayme Moloney, auditor at the sanatorium, will represent that institution at the funeral.

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