Young, Oscar L.

the body of the late Private Oscar L. Young, former Ottawa countian who was killed in action against Nazi forces in Germany on Apr 8, 1945, will arrive in Baxter Springs Kansas, Monday. Funeral services will be conducted at the Methodist church in Baxter springs at 2:30 o'clock Wednesday afternoon. The Rev. Clarence Burgin of Neosho Missouri will officiate. He will be assisted by the Reverend Warner of Baxter Springs. Military services by the Baxter Springs American Legion post and Masonic rites will be held at the grave in G.A.R. cemetery, at Miami. The son of Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Walter Green of Baxter springs, Route 1, the soldier lost his life after his return to duty following his recovery from wounds received in fight in November, 1944. He was a member of the U.S. 743rd tank battalion. He was 30 years old at the time of his death. He was graduated from Picher Oklahoma high school in 1933, and after attending the Pittsburg Teacher's college in Pittsburg Kansas, he was graduated from Northeastern Oklahoma a and M college with the class of 1937. He had no other immediate relatives.