Lieut Richard Pershing Boren
1919 - 1947 (28 years)
Generation: 1
1. Lieut Richard Pershing Boren was born on 24 Feb 1919 in Cedar Creek Township, Allen County, Indiana; died on 28 Aug 1947 in Japan; was buried in Greenlawn Memorial Park, Fort Wayne, Allen County, Indiana. Other Events:
- Military: World War II. US Army.
Notes:
Lt. Boren Dies in Japan of Poliomyelitis
First Lt. Richard P. Boren, 28, stationed in Japan with the Eighth Army Food Service School, died Thursday of poliomyelitis, according to word received here by relatives.
Lt. Boren was the son of Mrs. Laura Boren, 2229 North Clinton Street, and the son-in-law of Mr. and Mrs. R.V. Stuber, 637 Huffman Street. He was a graduate of North Side High School and had served with the Army for the past five years. Prior to entering the service, he was employed by the General Electric Company here.
Other survivors include his wife, Dorothy, and a daughter, Sandra Sue, both living in Japan with him; four sisters, Mrs. Vera Bobay, Auburn, Mrs. Bernice Surfus, Leo, Mrs. Bessie Freeman, Gravill, and Mrs. Gladys Harney, Portland, and a brother, Theodore, of this city.
Lt. Boren was a veteran of more than two years’ service in Germany during the war. He returned to this county after the armistice and later re-enlisted. A year ago last month he was sent to Japan and his wife and daughter joined him the following October.
It is not know if the body will be returned here for burial.
Name:
son of Otho Cresup Boren and Laura Belle Myers
Buried:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/80591959/richard-pershing-borenRichard married Dorothy Brecht on 16 Nov 1940 in Indiana. Dorothy (daughter of John Detrick Brecht and Evillna "Eva" Schafer) was born on 30 Nov 1922 in North Creek, Putnam County, Ohio; died on 30 Jun 2018 in Wabash, Wabash County, Indiana; was buried in Oaklawn Cemetery, North Manchester, Wabash County, Indiana. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]