Pvt. Ray Kohr Is Killed In France
A War Department Telegram from last Friday by Mrs. Ray N. Kohr, Millersburg, stated that her husband, Pvt. Kohr, previously reported missing, in action in France, October 20, is now, according to a “new report received, killed in action in France October 20.”
Pvt. Kohr, who was 25 years of age, was a graduate of the Porter Township High School, class of 1936.
He entered the army a year ago while an employee of the W. L. Brubaker and Brothers Company plant in Millersburg. He received his training at Camp Blanding, Florida, and was sent overseas from Fort George G. Meade, Maryland, with an infantry company, five months before he was killed in action. His APO number was 45, c/o postmaster, New York. Pvt. Kohr, a resident of Millersburg for two years, was a member of the Evangelical Church at Muir.
He is survived by his widow, the former Miss Eva Kreiner, of Tower City, whom he married at Wiconisco four years ago last month; a son, Ray Leroy Kohr, Muir; his father, Noah Kohr, Muir; three brothers, Paul Kohr, Homer Kohr, and Frank Kohr, all serving overseas with the armed services, and three sisters, Mrs. Oliver Lubold and Mrs. Dora Wallace, Tower City, and Ruth Kohr, Elizabethtown.
Mrs. Kohr and her son expect to reside in Millersburg.
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From the West Schuylkill Herald (Tower City), 8 December 1944, via Newspaper.com.
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