World War II
Sgt Bethel Everett Strawn
Army - KIA
Battle of the Bulge

358th Inf Reg, 90th Inf Div

Service No: 38545385 10 Sep 1913- 30 Jan 1945. He has a birth cert in Grayson Co., TX grew up in Howe. His wife Ethel Avis Allen Strawn Exact locations of his unit was a secret so they rarely point out exactly where someone was. The Houston Post 22 Feb 1945 The Houston Chronicle 21 Feb 1945

Fort Worth Star_Telegram 26 Mar 1945

Grayson County, Texas 1920 US Census - He is 6 yrs old. His father F M Strawn, Mother Joe A (Nancy Joeann) Strawn, siblings: Joe A , Earl, Earnest, Josie, Estell, Bethel and then Winnono. (His parents are buried in Sherman in West Hill Cemetery and his grandparents in Whitesboro) 1930 US Census - He is 16, His mother is listed as Noncia, ch: Earnest, Jocie, Estle, Bethel, Winona. 1940 US Census He is living in Goose Creek, Harris Co. TX age 26, married. Head of household. In 1935 he lived in Dallas. He had completed two years of college. Household is just his wife, Ethel A Strawn His WWII Registration Card He was living in Goose Creek, Harris Co, TX

More about the Battle of the Bulge The fighting took place all around that place for a month afterward Battle of the Bulge There were 19,246 deaths in that battle. He died 30 Jan 1945. Battle of the Bulge History Youtube - 44:48 mins Battle of the Bulge-Patton 360 National WWII Museum More about it from the military website Youtube- 16:57 mins The Battle of the Bulge:Artic Warfare Hell Youtube -50:36 mins Battle of the Bulge

Ancestry has Hospital Card information and it just says he died from a head wound made by artillery shell fragments. He is buried in the HENRI- CHAPELLE AMERICAN CEMETERY AND MEMORIAL , HENRI-CHAPELLE, LIEGE, BELGUM.

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