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Where They Died
 Source: website bigpigeon.us, webpage WW II Dead > Member's Deaths > Post-Service.
© 2021 by Robert A. “Bob” Christiansen, updated 26 Jan 2021, 18 names.

Pottawattamie County, Iowa Area WW II Dead Roster - Post-Service​ Deaths
  • These roster members survived their WW II service but died before 1950.
  • sep. = separation from service, which in WW II was generally a discharge but sometimes meant status change from active duty to reserve.
  • Some veterans were still hospitalized, as in veteran's hospitals, after separation.
  • Little on-line data exists for veterans who died after separation.
  • My major source was the ancestry.com database Iowa WW II Bonus Case Files for Beneficiaries.
  • The term service related cause in the bonus case files can be misleading. It sometimes means the individual became ill before separation, not that military service caused the illness. 
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Feller, Marvin Julius, SN 872-09-79, US Navy, Pott. Co.​
  • sep. 9 Apr 1946; d. 21 Jul 1946 Co. Bluffs, auto accident; in car with Alfred Knudsen.
Fisk, Aaron Ervin, SN 37-121-296, US Army, Pott. Co.
  • sep. 3 Aug 1943; d. 24 Jan 1945, Veterans Hosp., Lincoln, Lancaster Co., NE, organ failure.
Gardiner, Kenneth Earl, SN O-327472, USAAF, Pott. Co.
  • sep. 15 Aug 1945; d. 13 Mar 1946 in McAllen, Hidalgo Co., TX from service-related causes.
Goodreau, William Walter, SN 20-706-598, US Army, Pott. Co.
  • sep. 8 Nov 1945; d. 6 Mar 1948 Co. Bluffs, crushed under railroad car.
Hadfield, George Chester, SN 286136, USMC, Harrison Co.
  • ​sep. Apr 1944; d. 7 Jan 1945, Hines Veterans Hosp., Proviso, Cook Co., IL, cancer.
Havens, Oscar Olin, SN 37-121-344, US Army, Pott. Co.
  • sep. 29 Nov 1945; d. 4 Jan 1946 Macedonia, Pott. Co.
Knudsen, Alfred Raymond, SN 17-165-468, US Army, Pott. Co. 
  • sep. 22 Feb 1946; d. 21 Jul 1946 Co. Bluffs, auto accident; in car with Marvin Feller.
Luxford, Elmer L., SN 648-64-91, US Navy, Pott. Co.
  • sep. 29 Jan 1943; d. 16 Jan 1945 Co. Bluffs; possible embolism w/ underlying digestive tract ulceration.
Mills, Eugene Raymond, SN 17-165-280, US Army, Pott. Co.
  • sep. 17 Nov 1945; d. 10 Jun 1946 Co. Bluffs, sarcoma.
Niemann, Alvin Vernon, SN 37-126-344, US Army, Pott. Co.
  • sep. 6 Aug 1943 at Deshon Gen. Hosp., Butler, PA; d. 14 Mar 1944, Veterans Hosp., Lincoln, Lancaster Co., NE,  perforated gastric ulcer.
O’Connell, John Ambrose, SN 37-464-476, US Army, Mills & Pott. Cos.
  • sep. Oct 1945; d. 2 Aug 1946 Glenwood, Mills Co., coronary artery disease.
Petersen, John Thomas Grant, SN 316-38-73, US Navy, Pott. Co. 
  • sep. 16 Nov 1945; d. 6 Jan 1946 Corona, Riverside Co., CA, auto accident.
Rohlfs, Frederick Theodore, SN O-339452, US Army, Pott. Co.
  • sep. 16 May 1943; d. 24 Jun 1944, near Lorimer, Union Co.; auto accident.
Schmitz, William Peter, SN 940-455, USMC, Shelby Co.
  • returned to US Mar 1945; leg amputated in US Naval Hosp., Long Beach, CA; sep. 23 Mar 1946; d. 25 Sep 1946 at home in Panama, Shelby Co., from asteo sarcoma.
​Strowig, Donald Jack, SN 37-470-435, US Army, Pott. Co.
  • sep. 28 Nov 1945 on total disability; d. 17 Jun 1946 Mercy Hosp., Council Bluffs, nephritis & pericarditis.
Vittitoe, Lloyd Albert, SN 37-735-050, US Army, Harrison Co.
  • Overseas service with the 315th Inf. Regt., 79th Inf. Div. in the ETO; sep. 15 Feb 1946; d. 7 Aug 1949 rural Herman, Washington Co., NE; accidental gunshot wound.
Wilson, Douglas William, SN 316-42-33, US Navy, Pott. Co.
  • sep. 20 Dec 1943; d. 28 Dec 1943, Hines Veterans Hosp., Proviso, Cook Co., IL.
Yergey, John Maurice Jr., SN 37-485-859, US Army, Woodbury Co.
  • sep. 24 Jan 1945; d. 28 Sep 1945, Vermillion, Clay Co., SD; Montgomery Ward salesman; neck broken in 75 foot fall while estimating paint requirements for a grain elevator.
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