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Show Killed ... Tragedy of War Strikes Two Local Families Word Comes Of Death Of Sgt. Stewart B. Starr Sept. 23, In Dutch New Guinea And Of Norman E. Olsen, Sept. 16, In France The tradgy of war and the toll it is exacting was brought closer to home this week, with announcement of the loss of two local boys, the word coming to two Springville families only a few days apart, p X' 1 (, ..!r, SGT. STEWART B. STARR from two separate war zones. Mr. and Mrs. Carl P. Olsen received word last Thursday from the government that their son, Pfc. Norman Edwin Olsen, 21, had been killed in action in France, on September 16. Mrs. Jennie B. Starr Monday, received official word that her son, Sgt. Stewart Burraston Starr, 40, was killed in an airplane accident ac-cident in Hollandia, Dutch New Guinea, Septemer 23. Pfc. Olsen was born in Leamington Leam-ington March 21, 1923 and lived there as a boy. The family moved here several years ago and Norman Nor-man attended the Springville high school. He went into the service in the spring of 1942 and left for overseas duty early in July this year. He was with the Engineers and before going to Prance, was stationed in England. Besides his parents, Carl F. and Rose Annie Kelsey Olsen, he is survived by three sisters and a brother, Mrs. Leah Williams, Mills Utah; Virdella and Shirley Olsen, Springville; Corp. Carl Olsen, somewhere in the South Pacific: . i -to- ' ' f . . . - .1 ! 2 -. 1 PFC. NORMAN E. OLSEN also a grandmother, Mrs. Annie Kelsey, Springville. Sgt. Starr is a native of Springville, Spring-ville, born October 31, 1903, a son of Alfred L. and Jennie Burraston Bur-raston Starr. He graduated from the Utah State Agricultural College Col-lege with a B. S. degree. In August 1942, he went into the service and in July 1943, left for overseas duty. He was a mechanic with the army air ground air forces working work-ing on Billie Mitchell bombers. In a recent letter to his mother, he stated that he was soon to move to a new home which he believed would not be as good as the last one. Surviving are his mother and six brothers and sisters, Captain Warren Starr, a prisoner of the Japanese at Osaka, Japan, who was last heard from December 1, 1943; Mrs. Grover Clyde, Mil-walkee, Mil-walkee, Wis.; Mrs. Blaine Thorpe and Mrs. Richard Loveridge, Springville; A. L. Starr, Los Angeles, Calif.; Courtland P. Starr, Salt Lake City. |