Gordon Picklesimer

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Cpl. Gordon B. Picklesimer

 

    Mr. and Mrs. Emerson Picklesimer of New Smyrna Bench, Fl. received word on April 26 that their eldest son, Cpl. Gordon B. Picklesimer had been killed in action in Germany on April 13.

    He was 25 years old and enlisted in the army at Portsmouth, Ohio, in September 1940 when the family resided at Vanceburg, Ky. He went overseas on September 4, 1941 and served two years in Iceland before he took part in the invasion of France where he served with a Headquarters Company of the 46th Field Artillery, of Gen. Patton's 3rd Army.

    His parents were born and reared in Johnson County and both taught in the public schools of this county. His father is a veteran of World War I and is now serving on the police force, Banana River, N. A. S., near Cocoa, Fla. Besides his parents, he is survived by three brothers, and one sister, Cpl. Dewey Picklesimer, with a medical battalion in Italy, Pfc. Orrel Picklesimer with the 614 Q. M. Corps in France, James Reece Picklesimer, a senior at New Smyrna Beach High School and Esta Ann.

 

Paintsville Herald
Thursday
06-07-1945