World War II
Civilian Life Schuyler Bertrom Wheeler was born 11 August 1915 to Schuyler J. and Eva (Carlson) Wheeler on a farm near Boone, Iowa. He was graduated from Boone High School...
Year at ISU: 1946 Robert was born to Bernard Wheelock and Mary Maliet on May 11, 1925. He grew up in Zearing, Iowa. Robert had two brothers, Paul and Carl,...
US MARINE CORPS WORLD WAR II Corporal Ole Wibholm was born in Demark along with his sister Esther. He had another sister named Ingebord. Their parents, Ole and Kathrin, came...
Year at ISU: 1946 - Engineering We only have scant information on First Lieutenant Harry J Widows. He was from Glenwood Iowa and his parents were Mr. and Mrs. N....
Year at ISU: 1942 2d. Lt. Louis H. Willson 44, of Ames, was the bombadier on a B-17G, 303rd Bomber Group and 360th Bomber Squadron, on a mission over Magdeburg,...
Usually, the Gold Star Hall Committee selects the honorees for each year’s ceremony. Once a name is chosen, we then try to contact family members and do extensive research to...
Died: Colorado
Died: Okinawa, Japan
Civilian Life Meredith (Tim) DeRoy Winter was born on 26 February 1919 in Dysart, Iowa. He graduated as the valedictorian of his high school class in 1936 and enrolled at...
Year at ISU: 1930 Died: Virginia
Year at ISU: 1946 Died: Michigan
Year at ISU: 1941 Died: Iwo Jima
Year at ISU: 1944 Died: Mediterranean Sea
Year at ISU: 1942 Died: Texas
We only have a single note in Paul C. Young's file: "We have had no word re. Paul C. young other than word from Beta House that he is dead....
Year at ISU: 1940 Died: North Africa
Year at ISU: 1940 Zeigler was born in Muscatine, Iowa to H. W. Zeigler and Geneva M Shiek on February 5, 1919, but grew up in Anamosa, Iowa. Lee entered...
Year at ISU: 1944 Died: California
Year at ISU: 1938 Died: Georgia
Frank was born to W. Leland Zink and Cynthia Mary McKibben on October 17, 1926 in Stuttgart, Arkansas. He grew up in Plano, Illinois. Frank was a member of Sigma...
Died: France
Maurice Raskin was born in Woodbury, Iowa in 1919 and attended high school in Sioux City, Iowa. Maurice was part of a meatpacking family that had survived the depression and...
In 2006, Mike Ostlund published the first edition of Find ‘Em, Chase ‘Em, Sink ‘Em, an expansive research monograph on the service and disappearance of the USS Gudgeon during the...
