The Dutch family, however, is missing a photograph of William A. Herron and would like to have one. Harrie Visschers discovered that William was born August 19, 1924 in Keokuk, Iowa. He wrote to the City of Madison in hopes of finding a descendant with a picture to place on his grave.
The library found a death notice, but no photo with the obituary.
STORY FROM A CAFE
During the war, German soldiers would look for places . Cafe owners had to take them in or risk being shot. Harrie's grandmother and grandfather had a cafe and said that the Germans were polite and "normal young people."
"Nearing the end of the war, the liberators -- American and Canadian soldiers passing through to the front lines -- also found shelter in the cafe of my grandparents," Harrie said. "Grandmother was a great cook, and so she indulged the boys, their heroes. But with one soldier she had a special mother-son relation."
That was William Herron.
After he left town, he sent her another letter asking her that if he was killed in Germany that Tina should send the letter to his parents, who lived in Ohio.
Once Tina discovered that William had been killed in the town of Wesel on March 24, she mailed the letter.
--GreGen
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