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Show pfc Dale Covington Killed In Action, Two Other Flyers Reported Missing . Memorial Services To Be Held At Hurricane Sunday for Pfc. Covington -Three boys from this area were '", the 'war casualties re-" re-" Id over the past few days. S Dale Covington of the U. S. Marines is reported "killed in aeon" ae-on" somewhere in the Pacific; JUt Lincoln G."Bundy and Lieut. I LeRoy Moseley, both "missing in action" over France. Word of Pfc Covington s death came by wire Monday afternoon to his grandmother, Mrs. A. W. Katie Jones) Augason. His mother, Mrs. Viva Putnam, re- . Sides in Long Beach. Dale enlisted en-listed with the U S. Marines a little more than a year ago at the age of 17. He has been on active duty for several months. Only the brief message of his ' (jeath came by wire. Memorial services are being held in his honor Sunday, July 16th, at 4:30 p m in Hurricane by the American Ameri-can 'Legion Post No. 100. His father, Henry Covington, will be in attendance. He also has four brothers and sisters in Long Beach. Lieut. (Tex-) Moseley has been overseas only a little more than a month. Word that he is "missing "miss-ing in action over France" came by wire Wednesday afternoon to his wife, Mrs. Carol Cottam Moseley Mose-ley of St. George. Lieut. Moseley was pilot of a pursuit plane in the invasion. He hails from Delta and attended Dixie junior college Wore entering the service. Mrs. Moseley, accompanied by Mr. and Mrs. Willard Milne left this (Continued on page four) War Casualties (Continued from first page) (Thursday) morning for Delta to be with her husband's parents, awaiting further information. Lieut. Bundy was accorded special honors recently for his outstanding work as pilot of a P-51 Mustang "Rustler" in the invasion area of France. He is a son of Mr. and Mrs. James Bundy and has three other brothers in military service, Gwendol J. (3 Bundy, William B. Bundy Z LaVar Bundy. Other family mem bers are Lorin S. Bundy, Nathell Bundy Wood, Merlon and Atwood Bundy, all of Mt. Trumbull. |