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Show Millard Veteran Returned Home For Burial The remains of Pvt. Jay Howard Bennett, recently returned from overseas under the Repatriation of World War II Dead Program, will arrive in Delta Thursday, August 5, 1948, accompanied by SSgt. James E. Giessel, Sixth Army Escort Es-cort Detachment, from the Utah General Distribution Depot, Ogden, Utah. j Pvt. Bennett is a son of Mr. and Mrs. Howard J. Bennett, of Meadow, Mead-ow, Utah. The body will be met at the railroad station in Delta by the family, and the American Legion Leg-ion Post No. 61 from Fillmore. ! Graveside services and military : honors will be held at the cemetery ceme-tery in Meadow Thursday afternoon after-noon at 5 p. m. i Pvt. Bennett was killed in action ac-tion May 21, 1945, on Northern Luzon Island. He was serving with the 37th infantry division at the time of his death. He entered the service February, 1945, and trained at Camp Fanning, Texas, and Fort Ord, Cal., before being sent overseas. over-seas. Born in Meadow, June 26, 19-26, 19-26, he was educated in east Millard Mil-lard schools and St. George. Surviving are his parents, Howard How-ard J. and Violet Stewart Bennett, of Meadow; a brother, W. Stewart Bennett, Logan; two sisters, Mrs. Joy Greenwood, American Fork, and Mrs. June Johnson, Fillmore, and a granddaughter, Mrs. Elizabeth Eliza-beth Stewart, Meadow. 'Burial will be in the Meadow cemetery, under the direction of L. N. Nickle and sons. |