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Jesse LeVee

LEVEE FUNERAL RITES MONDAY
TOBACCO TWP. SOLDIER RETURNED FOR BURIAL IN BEAVERTON

  Funeral services for Sergeant Jesse LeVee, son of Mr. and Mrs. Hayes C. LeVee, of Beaverton township, will be held on Monday afternoon from the Beaverton Presbyterian church. The Rev. Reinberg, of Midland, will officiate and burial will be in the Beaverton cemetery, under the auspices of the Beaverton American Legion Post. Sgt. LeVee was returned from overseas at the request of his parents and will arrive in Standish on Thursday morning and be brought to the Hall Funeral Home.

  He was the first man in service from the Beaverton area to be reported killed in service and the fourth man in Gladwin county to be reported missing or killed while a member of the U.S. armed forces in World War II. Sgt. LeVee enlisted in the Army Air Corps in Detroit on October 6, 1911, and was a mechanic with a bomber crew. He had trained for service in this country for some time and had been overseas for several months when he was killed in an airplane crash in India on January 12, 1943. He was 22 years old at the time of his death and had spent most of his life in Beaverton township, attending school there.

  Surviving are his parents, a brother, Ellis, of Tobacco township; three sisters, Mrs. Hazel Horton of Beaverton, Mrs. Elva Hovis and Mrs. Florence Bresnahan, of Pontiac. Gladwin County Record dated 06-16/1948 Column 2 Page - 1

  Sergeant Jesse LeVee, 22, of Beaverton township, has been killed in an airplane crash in India, according to word received by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. C. LeVee from the War Department Saturday night. He was the first man in service from the Beaverton area to be reported killed in service and the fourth man in Gladwin county to be reported missing or killed while a member of the U.S. armed forces.

  Sgt. LeVee enlisted in the Army Air Corps in Detroit on October 6, 1941, and was a mechanic with a bomber crew. He had trained for service in this country for some time and had been overseas for several months. His death occurred January 12th according to the telegram received by his parents.

  Jesse had been a resident of Beaverton township most of his life and attended school in Beaverton. Surviving are his parents, a brother Ellis, of Tobacco township; three sisters, Mrs. Hazel Horton, of Beaverton; Mrs. Elva Hovis, of Pontiac; and Mrs. Florence Brenahan, of Pontiac. .

{Note: Actual Recorded Date of Death is: unk. Name: Jesse LeVee}
 
 
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Beaverton Cemetery, Gladwin, MI
World War 2
 
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6/16/1948
Gladwin County Record, Gladwin, MI
P:1 C:2
 
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January 2005
Tom Ladner
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