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Personal info

Full name
DE GRAFFENREID, Fayette Ross
Date of birth
29 February 1916
Age
29
Place of birth
Oakley, Logan County, Kansas
Hometown
Adams County, Colorado

Military service

Service number
37362801
Rank
Private First Class
Function
unknown
Unit
101st Infantry Regiment,
26th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart with Oak Leaf Cluster

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
10 April 1945
Place of death
Waffenrod, Hildburghausen, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Margraten
Plot Row Grave
D 21 20

Immediate family

Members
John K. De Graffenreid (father)
Florence R. (Edwards) De Graffenreid (mother)
Judson E. De Graffenreid (brother)
Cecil E. De Graffenreid (brother)
Elsie De Graffenreid (sister)
Archie E. De Graffenreid (brother)
Rebecca E. De Graffenreid (sister)
Julia G. De Graffenreid (sister)
Fern De Graffenreid (sister)
Alice M. (Switser) De Graffenreid (wife)
Fayette R. De Graffenreid (Galemore) (son)
Douglas C. De Graffenreid (son)
Penny A. De Graffenreid (daughter)

More information

Pfc Fayette R. De Graffenreid worked as a carpenter before he enlisted at Fort Logan, Colorado on 8 April 1944.

Pfc De Graffenreid was first married to Lena Jane Wodke and they had a son Fayette. He remarried Alice Myrle Switzer in 1940. Lena Jane also remarried, and when Fayette De Graffenreid Jr. entered the military service, he adopted his stepfather's name Galemore.

Source of information: Jac Engels, Astrid van Erp, Louis Dorescenzi, www.ancestry.com - 1920/1930 Census / Family Trees / Headstone and Interment Record, www.archives.gov - WWII Enlistment Record, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.findagrave.com

Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Des Philippet, Louis Dorescenzi