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Show CLARKSTON SOLDIER KILLED IN ITALIAN CAMPA IGN FIGHTING high school in 1934. He filled a mission to Sweden from December 1937 until Novem. ber 1939, when he returned to the United States at the out. break of the European war. He completed his mission in the Central states. Private Ravsten enlisted in the army in February 1941 and received re-ceived his basic training at Fort Lewis, Wash. He trained later at Fort Ord, Cal., and Camp Pickett, Pick-ett, Fa., and was connected with the fifteenth infantry unit, Third division. Active in church affairs, he was a Seventy in the Clarkston ward when he joined the army. j Survivors include his father, who is Patriarch of the Smithfield stake; and the following bro.hers and sisters: Mrs. Merle Andrews of Shreveport, La., Mrs. Lois Chambers of Smithfield, Blaine Ravsten, and Alta Ravsten of Ogden, Mrs. Ida Cannon of Fielding, Mrs. Amy McKee of Logan, Mrs. Leah Ravsten, Ivan Ravsten and Bishop Byron Ravsten and Mrs. Betty Thompson all of Clarkston. PRIVATE I IK ST CLASS VANCE j RAVSTEN . . . killed in Italy. Private First Class Alvin Vance Ravsten, 28, son of John Ravsten of Clarkston, first Clarkston man to enlist in the army during the present conflict, has been killed in action in the Italian theater, his father has been notified. Private Ravsten had participated in all major Mediterranean campaigns cam-paigns since landing with American Amer-ican troops at Casablanca. He had received the Purple Heart I award in August, 1943. for wounds sustained during the Sicilian campaign. cam-paign. The war department telegram said: "he was fatally injured February Feb-ruary 2 while engaging the enemy." ene-my." He was born September 22, 1015 in Clarkston, a son of John and Bertha Nish Ravsten. He attended at-tended Clarkston publis schools and graduated from North Cache |