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Personal info

Full name
MATHER, Otis
Date of birth
1 April 1919
Age
25
Place of birth
Missouri
Hometown
Waterloo, Black Hawk County, Iowa

Military service

Service number
37697674
Rank
Private
Function
unknown
Unit
10th Infantry Regiment,
5th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
19 January 1945
Place of death
In the vicinity of Bastendorf-Diekirch, Luxembourg

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Luxembourg
Plot Row Grave
H 13 9

Immediate family

Members
Byron C. Mather (father)
Belle (Spurgeon) Mather (mother)
Opal Mather (sister)
Orkney Mather (brother)
Nola Mather (sister)
Merina Mather (sister)
Violet Mather (sister)
Mary Mather (sister)
Curtis Mather (brother)
Paul E. Mather (brother)
Ineze Mather (sister)
Evelyn (Miller) Mather (wife)

More information

Pvt Otis Mather attended Ottumwa High School was a foreman at the Rath Packing Co.

He enlisted at Camp Dodge, Iowa on 29 May 1944. He was sent overseas in November 1944.

Source of information: Leo Minne, Terry Hirsch, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov - WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / 1930/1940 Census / Spurgeon Family Tree, A footsoldier for Patton - Michael C. Bilder and James G. Bilder, The 5th Infantry Division in the ETO

Photo source: Peter Schouteten, www.findagrave.com - Ramsfan/djtruit, The Courier - 23 March 1945