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- The remains of Corporal Lowell V. Harmon, husband of Mrs. Josephine Harmon of 634 South Morgan Street, will arrive in Olney on Thursday at 4:44 a.m. from the Chicago Quartermaster Depot, accompanied by military escort.
Lowell was born near Calhoun on February 12, 1923, the eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. Vern Harmon. He attended the Calhoun High School, and the Otterbein United Brethren Church. He was employed by the International Shoe Co., in Olney from Feb. 14, 1941 until Feb. 5, 1943, when he was called into the Army.
On Dec. 5, 1942, he was married to Miss Josephine Crites, of Olney.
After training at several military posts in the United States, he was sent overseas and landed in England on Feb. 25, 1944. On the continent he was attached to the 991st Field Artillary Battalion Medical Detachment. On April 29, 1945, while in a combat area, his battalion was in convoy to occupy the town of Allstedt, Germany, when he was injured in a vehicular accident, from which he passed away on May 1, 1945, just seven days before the war ended in Europe. He was buried with military honors in Central Germany.
He is survived by his widow, Josephine Harmon of Olney; his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Vern Harmon of Bradford; three brothers, Leslie of Tiskilwa, Walter and Loren of Bradford; two sisters, Miss Betty Harmon of Normal, and Miss Irene Harmon of Bradford. Also three grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. John Clodfelter of Tiskilwa, and Mrs. Della Harmon of Calhoun, with a number of other relatives and a host of friends.
Funeral services will be held on Saturday at 1:30 p.m. at the Schaub Funeral Home, with Rev. David R. Beecher in charge. Interment will be in Otterbein Cemetery. Olney Memorial Post No. 4226, Veterans of Foreign Wars, will render military honors at the graveside.
Published in the Olney Advocate, Thursday, Jan. 6, 1949
NOTE: Mrs. Josephine Harmon, widow of Lowell V. Harmon, later had him moved to the Eureka Cemetery, south of Claremont. I, the contributor, know this to be a fact, as she was my husband's Aunt.
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