Milton Atkinson

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"Milton Atkinson Dies Of Skull Fracture" is how the headlines read on March 9th, 1943. Gone from the county was another valiant soldier.

    Milton Atkinson was 42 and the son of the late Charles A. Atkinson and was pronounced dead Sunday, March 5, 1944, at the Christ’s Hospital in Cincinnati from a compound skull fracture sustained on Friday, February 25, 1944, in a fall at his home at Ft. Thomas. Burial was at his wife’s home in Flemingsburg on Tuesday.

    Mr. Atkinson had made his home at Ft. Thomas the past ten years and was a junior partner of the bonding firm of Walter, Woody and Harmardinger, Cincinnati.

    He was well known in Paintsville as the grandson of  the late Mary Hager Atkinson  and nephew of Miss Stella Atkinson.  He spent his youth with his grandmother and aunt,

    During World War I, he distinguished himself as the youngest Marine in service in the United States, enlisting from Johnson County when only fifteen. He participated in every major conflict in Europe, being decorated on several occasions.

    Surviving him at this time was his wife, the former Velma Arnold, and three children. His mother, who was a sister to Mrs. Belle Hazelrigg, Salyersville, and Mrs. Myrtle Stewart, Flemingsburg, lives at Tampa, Fla., and was unable to attend the funeral because of ill health.

    Mrs. Fannie Atkinson and her daughter Eloise, were present at the funeral Tuesday, March 7, 1944