The USS North Carolina (BB-55) My all-time favorite warship. As an elementary school student in North Carolina, I donated nickels and dimes to save this ship back in the early sixties.

Saturday, December 3, 2022

Keith Tipsword's Death Notice

In the last post I wrote about his burial in Illinois after years of not being identified.  I am very thankful for the DPAA and all their efforts to identify American unknowns.

This death notice from 1942 accompanied the article from yesterday and had a picture of him.

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KILLED IN ACTION

Keith Warren, son of  Mr. and Mrs. Frank Tipsword of Effingham, has been killed in action, his parents were notified by the U.S. Navy department Tuesday.  He was a first-class machinist.

The date of his death and details were not given.    Keith, who was  27 last June, had been in the  navy since 1936.

He was born and reared in Effingham county.

Besides his parents, he leaves two brothers, Dean, in the army, and Hugh, in Idaho, and four sisters, Mrs. Gail  Stanford,   Mrs. Frances  Jean White, Betty Fay and  Dalyne Tipsford, all of  Effingham.

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--GreGen


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