Born: 3 Jan 1842 Died: 1 Apr 1918 Service: CSA Clay Davis Co., Benavides Regiment, served Nov 1862 - May 1865 Burial:Harper Community Cemetery
Lomenick, James H. "Jack"
Born: 20 Nov 1926 Died: 18 Jan 1982 Service: RM 2 U.S. Coast Guard WW II Burial:Greenwood Cemetery Plot: 2 001 003
Longerich, Harry
Born: 21 Apr 1917 Died: 25 Feb 2009 Service: U.S. Army WW II, Pearl Harbor survivor, served 1939 - 21 Apr 1963 Burial:Not stated / Unknown
Civil War pension # 14067 7 35131
Longerich immigrated from Germany with parents in 1927 to New York City, New York when he was 9 years old and came on ship Bremen. He joined the U.S. Army at age twenty two. He is a 1941 Pearl Harbor Survivor. He served his new county from 1939 to 4/21/1963 when he retired.
Lopez, Alfredo
Born: 1 Nov 1939 Died: 5 Jan 2024 Service: U.S. Army Vietnam Green Beret; served 10 years Burial:Not stated / Unknown
Born: 10 Jul 1908 Died: 14 Sep 1980 Service: U.S. Army WW II; served 8 Sep 1942 - 13 Nov 1945 Burial:Mountain View Cemetery (Kerr Co.)
Lopez, Lesley Robert
Born: 23 Dec 1924 Died: 18 Jul 1990 Service: U.S. Navy WW II Burial:Not stated / Unknown
Lorenz, Clarence August
Born: 25 Jul 1919 Died: 21 Sep 2000 Service: CPL U.S. Army WW II, enlisted 14 Jan 1941 Burial:Johnson City Masonic Cemetery
Lorenz, Clayton Francis
Born: 18 Mar 1925 Died: 27 Nov 1997 Service: PVT. WW II Burial:Not stated / Unknown
Seaman Second Class Lesley Lopez, son of Mr. and Mrs. Vincest Lopez of here, who is serving in the U S Navy. Lopez was formerly stationed at San Diego, California but now he is station at San Francisco, California.
Lorenz, Clemens Raymond
Born: 16 Jul 1924 Died: 29 Apr 2010 Service: CM3 U.S. Navy WW II 3 Jun 1943 - 24 Jan 1946 Burial:Johnson City Masonic Cemetery
Lorenz, Ewald Harry
Born: 1 Feb 1916 Died: 22 Dec 1959 Service: PFC U.S. Army TX 275 Port Co. TC WW II; served 13 May 1943 - 15 Jan 1946 Burial:St. Mary's Garden Cemetery Plot: SMG I 06 043 B
Lorenz, Harry Edgar
Born: 24 Sep 1894 Died: 2 Feb 1958 Service: Pvt Co A 33 INF WW I Burial:Der Stadt Friedhof Plot: H, 10, 11
Lorenz, Johann Peter "Peter"
Born: 27 Apr 1819 Died: 12 Dec 1902 Service: 1st & 2nd Sgt., Pvt.-Minute Men Burial:Der Stadt Friedhof Plot: D, 04, 28
Lorenz, Otto Aaron
Born: 10 Jul 1893 Died: 22 Jul 1943 Service: Pvt. 334 Field RMT Sq. WW I; served 26 Jun 1918 - 22 Jul 1919 Burial:Der Stadt Friedhof Plot: G, 06, 31
Born: 24 Sep 1895 Died: 1 Feb 1955 Service: Pvt 165 Depot Brigade 75 Co. 19 Battalion WW I; served 26 Jun 1918 - 28 Jul 1919 Burial:Der Stadt Friedhof Plot: H, 06, 28
Lorimier, Joseph M., Jr.
Born: 23 Aug 1901 Died: 9 Jun 1987 Service: CWO U.S. Army WW II Burial:Fort Bliss National Cemetery Plot: Section H 1 Site 199
Lorimier, Joseph Menard "Joe", III
Born: 29 Jul 1933 Died: 21 Jan 2015 Service: Col (Ret.) U.S. Army Korea Vietnam; served over 30 years Burial:Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery
The young officer first served in various platoon positions with an Air Defense Battalion at Karlsruhe, Germany as an Air Defense advisor to the German Army.
In 1962, Col. Lorimier attended the Air Defense Artillery Officer Advanced Course and later commanded a HAWK unit in a Guided Missile Group at Fort Bliss, Texas.
After completing a tour in Korea in 1964, where he was Aide-de-Camp to the Chief of Staff, Eighth United States Army, Col. Lorimier returned to Fort Bliss, Texas to become Secretary of General Staff, followed by appointment as Deputy Chief of Staff from 1965-1968.
Following a tour in Vietnam with the 9th Infantry Division from 1968 to 1969, he attended the Army Command and General Staff College and was subsequently assigned to the office of the Assistant Chief of Staff for Force Development, Department of the Army in Washington, D.C.
In 1971, Col. Lorimier served in the office of the Secretary of the Army as the Military Assistant to the Under Secretary of the Army. Prior to taking command of a Chaparral Vulcan Air Defense Artillery Battalion in June 1974, Col. Lorimier was assigned in the Plans and Policy Directorate, Headquarters, United States European Command in Stuttgart, Germany.
In 1976, Col. Lorimier was assigned to the Office of the Directorate of Combat Developments, Fort Bliss, Texas from which he was appointed as Director of Support, US Army Defense School.
In May 1981, Col. Lorimier completed a two year assignment as Assistant Deputy for Operations, 24th North American Air Defense Command, Malmstrom AFB, Montana. Prior to these duties, he served as Director of Support Activities on the North American Air Defense Command Alternate Command Post Battlestaff.
After serving as the Senior Army Advisor to the New Mexico National Guard of Santa Fe, New Mexico, Col. Lorimier became the Chief of Staff, Joint Task Force, Alaska. He was then assigned to TACOM (Tank-Automotive & Armaments Command) in Detroit, MI where in 1986 he retired from the military.
Col. Lorimier’s awards include the Defense Superior Service Medal, the Bronze Star Medal, Defense Meritorious Service Medal, Joint Service Commendation Medal, and Army Commendation Medal with Oak Leaf Cluster. He is also authorized to wear the Army General Staff Identification Badge and Parachute Badge.
Born: 18 Oct 1936 Died: 30 Dec 2006 Service: TSGT U.S. Air Force Vietnam; served 20 years Burial:Cremated
Lortz departed to the World War II Asiatic Pacific Campaign on February 9, 1945 upon completion of his Army training. Les served with the 105th Infantry Regiment, 27th Division in Okinawa, Japan and surrounding islands. For 9 months he was Platoon Sergeant responsible for the welfare of 37 men. After that he was promoted to Acting First Sergeant in charge of 150 men, giving lectures and demonstrations in training techniques.
Les received medals for the Asiatic Pacific Campaign, Good Conduct, World War II Victory and Army of Occupation.
Loth received the National Defense Medal, Korean Service Medal, United Nations Medal and the Good Conduct Medal.
Lott, Hilmar John
Born: 26 Aug 1890 Died: 16 Apr 1982 Service: PVT U.S. Army WW I Burial:St. Mary's Garden Cemetery Plot: SMG J 09 134
Lott, James George "Jimmie"
Born: 14 Jun 1900 Died: 27 Dec 1969 Service: Lt. U.S. Navy WW I WW II (Retired) Burial:Palestine New Addition
Lott, John August
Born: 17 Sep 1903 Died: 10 May 1993 Service: U.S. Navy WW II; served 12 Nov 1942 - 23 Oct 1945 Burial:Kern River Valley Cemetery
Lt. (j.g.) Jimmie Lott (S.C.) U. S. N., one of Gillespie county veteran Navy men, was here last week for his fifth visit with local relatives and friends in his 25 years service with the Navy.
Lt. Lott, the son of the late Mr. and Mrs. John Lott, entered the Naval service shortly after the close of World War I and on August 16, 1944 will observe his 25th. anniversary as a Navy man.
Service ribbons he wears on his uniform indicate that the old slogan, "Join The Navy And See The World", were more truth than fiction, for in his quarter century he has covered much of the earth's surface, first as a "gob" during the years of peace, and now as an officer in the world's mightiest sea faring force.
Lt Lott, wears the service ribbon indicating that he participated in the second Nicaraguan campaign; the American Defense ribbon; Asiatic-Pacific ribbon with two stars indicating two major battles; the American Theatre ribbon and four years Good Conduct ribbon with four stars, each indicating four years of good conduct.
The Navy veteran has little to say concerning action he's participated in during World War II, but most of the time has been serving in the Pacific area, in action ranging all the way from the Aleutians to the far Southwest Pacific.
In the two and a half decades he's been in the Navy, he has managed a trip home on the average of every five years, although his last previous visit here was some seven years ago. He arrived here last week Tuesday and left on Monday to report for duty on the Pacific Coast.
John Lott, First Class Petty Officer in the Navy, has returned to duty in San Francisco California after a visit here with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. William Lott. He had recently returned from 20 months of Combat Duty in the Pacific. Seaman Lott has a son serving in the Armed Forces somewhere overseas.
Lott, Leonard Philip John
Born: 26 Jan 1923 Died: 18 Dec 2013 Service: U.S. Army WW II; enlisted 18 Oct 1944 Burial:Greenwood Cemetery Plot: 2 004 063
Lott, Lewis James
Born: 10 Apr 1917 Died: 5 Nov 1996 Service: SGT U.S. Army; WW II; enlisted 6 Aug 1939; Purple Heart Burial:Garden of Memories
The three brothers, Victor, Lewis, and Walter are the sons of Mr. and Mrs. John Arthur Lott of the Klein Branch Community of Harper, Texas.
Sgt. Lewis Lott volunteered in the Army on August 6th. 1939, and received his training in the Hawaiian Islands and was stationed at Pearl Harbor on December 7th., 1941.At the time of the attack of the Japanese he received gun bullet wounds from a Jap air plane as it strafed his anti-air craft unit. As a result, Lewis has suffered the loss of an eye. For bravery in action displayed at that time he has been awarded the Purple heart by the US Government. Sgt. Lott married recently and now lives at Cheyenne, Wyoming.
The three brothers, Victor, Lewis, and Walter are the sons of Mr. and Mrs. John Arthur Lott of the Klein Branch Community of Harper, Texas.
Sgt. Victor Lott volunteered in the Army on January 1st 1940, and received his training in the Hawaiian Islands and was stationed at Pearl Harbor on December 7th, 1941. He is a member of the U.S. Field Artillery. Victor has not been home since he left here over two years ago.
Lott, Walter A.
Born: 15 Dec 1921 Died: 30 Jun 2002 Service: U.S. Army WW II, enlisted 18 Jul 1942 Burial:Garden of Memories
Loudon, Walter Edwin, Jr.
Born: 9 Feb 1921 Died: 4 Apr 2008 Service: U.S. Air Corce WW II, enlisted 25 Aug 1942; U.S. Air Force Burial:Greenwood Cemetery Plot: 7 025 033
Loudon, Walter Edwin, Sr.
Born: 21 Oct 1894 Died: 3 Mar 1961 Service: PVT U.S. Army Battery E 133rd Field Artillery WW I Burial:Greenwood Cemetery Plot: 201 SWQ
The three brothers, Victor, Lewis, and Walter are the sons of Mr. and Mrs. John Arthur Lott of the Klein Branch Community of Harper, Texas.
Pvt. Walter Lott, the youngest of the three brothers in the Army, was drafted on July 17th. 1942. He is stationed at Camp Crowder, Missouri, where he is a member of the Signal Corps.
Lucas, Frederick Charles
Born: 27 May 1922 Died: 21 Oct 2006 Service: U.S. Navy WW II Burial:Der Stadt Friedhof Plot: J, 22, 03B
Luckenbach, Adolph Julius August "Julius"
Born: 1 Aug 1853 Died: 4 Feb 1942 Service: Gillespie Mounted Rifles, 1880 Burial:Boerne Cemetery
Luckenbach, Albert Jacob "Jacob"
Born: 6 Oct 1817 Died: 27 Feb 1911 Service: Pvt. Co. B (II), Gillespie County, 3rd Frontier District TST 1864 Burial:Boerne Cemetery
Name & Rank: Luckenbach, Jac., Pvt. Com. off: Schuetze, L., & Krauskopf, E., Capt. Organ: Co. B (II), Gillespie Co., 3rd Front. Dist. BG J.D. McAdoo commdg., TST Enlist: Jan. 28-64 in Gillespie Co.; mus. in Jan. 28. Disch: Serv. Jan. 28 to Je. 1-64: 30 days at $2--$60. Descrip: Age 46 Remarks: R&F 84; En. & Mus. Off. W.J. Locke; 1 shotgun & 1 pistol; Co. org. under Act of D. 15-63; 1 MR & PR dtd. Jan. 28-64 to Je. 1-64 & 2 MR dtd. Jan. 27-64 & May '64. Source: Ancestry.com. Texas, Muster Roll Index Cards, 1838-1900 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011.
Luckenbach, Alexander Jacob
Born: 10 Oct 1912 Died: 13 Oct 1985 Service: U.S. Army WW II; enlisted 9 Jun 1942 Burial:Greenwood Cemetery Plot: 161 SWQ
Luckenbach, August
Born: 1833 Died: Aug 1862 Service: Unionist who was captured and killed after the battle at the Nueces River by Confederates Burial:Treue der Union Monument
Luckenbach, Elgin Julius
Born: 14 Jan 1921 Died: 16 Apr 1944 Service: SGT U.S. Army Air Corps WW II, enlisted 9 Jun 1942, MIA then killed in crash due to weather in New Guinea Burial:Greenwood Cemetery Plot: Section 60 Site 8354
Cpl. Alex A. Luckenbach Has Traveled 20,000 Miles Building Army Airfields At a USAAF Airfield in Italy -- When Horace Greeley gave his advice about going west to young men it is doubtful if he throught some, like Corporal Alexander A. (Lucky) Luckenbach of Luckenbach, Texas, would take him so literally. Lucky pulled up stakes and started his westward journey, continuing in that direction for some 20,000 miles. He drove stakes next in Egypt And that is just what he did, for driving stakes is a part of the duties of the survey crew to whick Cpl. Luckenbach belongs. The crew surveys new airfield sites and works on the expansion of others in their engineer aviation battalion in Italy, where Lucky has spent the last 15 months. As a member of his unit's operations section he is usually one of the advance party that works ahead of the battalion. During frontline operations far north of Rome after the fall of that city, Cpl. Luckenbach with others in the surveying party were busily working on a proposed airfield site. German artillery was within easy range and, in fact, were shelling American positions. Suddenly a Junkers-88 appeared in the sky. Fighter planes, two British Spitfires and two P-40s rose to meet the challenge. The pilot of the German plane apparently made as if to yield, circled for a landing and came gliding toward the not-yet-finished runway to surender. Americans on the field watched as the landing gear touched the earth and they prepared to move forward to take the crew prisoners. But the crafty Nazi pilot had been stalling. He pointed the nose of his plane upward and zoomed off again. The four Allied fighters were hot after him, this time taking no chances. The poured round after round of ammunition into the Junkers which, under the withering fire, plumeted to earth killing all the occupants. Frequently ahead of the infantry in these months, Lucky and his survey crew at times sat placidly watching outdoor movies in the evening while Germans dropped their bombs on nearby fields in raids with more nuisance than effective value. His battalion which made a brilliant record building and maintaining heavy bomber and fighter fields in the Libyan sand, and throughout Allied-occupied Italy, has encountered every conceivable type of weather and terrain. One of the airfields it now maintains, a marvel of its kind, is below sea-level in parts and the runway stretches for more than 6,000 feet separated from the sea by dikes composed of walls of sand. Pumping stallations keep the field from being flooded. Corporal Luckenbach who has just completed two years overseas service, is one of the few persons in the U.S. whose home town is named after a member of his family, in this case an uncle in San Antonio, his namesake. The son of Mr. and Mrs. Ben B. Luckenbach, Lucky has seen service on five continents in this war, the sole exception being South America. His brother, Elgin, a staff sergeant in a bomber crew was reported missing last April from New Guinea. "You know," muses Lucky, "whenever I drive a new stake in the ground, I feel it's like putting a nail in Hitler's coffin -- that will soon seal his tomb forever." If the planes which take off to Germany with such devasting effect from fields he has helped to build are any criterion, he is correct.
Elgin Luckenbach Missing In New Guinea
Staff Sergeant Elgin Luckenbach, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ben Luckenbach, has been listed as missing in action over New Guinea, according to a message received by his parents on Monday.
Born: 14 Jan 1921 Died: 16 Apr 1944 Service: SGT U.S. Army Air Corps WW II, enlisted 9 Jun 1942, MIA then killed in crash due to weather in New Guinea Burial:Greenwood Cemetery Plot: 161 NEQ
Luckenbach, Elmer
Born: 14 Feb 1922 Died: 5 Oct 2008 Service: Master Sergeant U.S. Army WW II Europe Burial:Greenwood Cemetery Plot: 4 003 017
Luckenbach, Eugene Charles "Charley"
Born: 12 Jul 1927 Died: 13 Jan 1998 Service: CPL U.S. Army Air Corps WW II Burial:Greenwood Cemetery Plot: 7 006 009
SSgt. Elgin J. Luckenbach was on a B-24J Liberator on April 16, 1944 with ten other men aboard. The aircraft was returning to Nadzab, New Guinea after bombing enemy targets near Hollandia. The plane was last seen off the coast of the island flying into poor weather. The loss was investigated following the war and a military board concluded that the aircraft had been lost over water and was unrecoverable.
In early 2001 a team of specialists from the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command (JPAC) interviewed a native of Papua New Guinea who claimed to have found the aircraft crash. Later the site was surveyed and excavated to identify the plane. The remains of the airmen were identified by DNA.
Corporal Elmer Luckenbach, age 22, has been in England since July this year with the Army Medical Supply Depot. A graduate of Fredericksburg High School, Elmer went into the Army on Oct. 27th, 1942, and received training at Indio, Calif., and at San Bernardino, Calif., before being transferred to New York from where he is believed to have been sent overseas.
Cpl. Luckenbach is remembered by many local sports fans for his ball-carrying and kicking while playing with the Hillbillies in '37, '38 and '39; and also for his outstanding batting and playing with the Giants.
Luckenbach served three years in the European Theater, and was in the service from Oct 1942 to Jan 1946.
Luckenbach, Friedrich Wilhelm "William"
Born: 14 Sep 1823 Died: 24 Feb 1911 Service: Pvt. Co. B (II), Gillespie County, 3rd Frontier District TST 1864 Burial:Hermann Sons Cemetery
Luckenbach, Guenther Edward "Luke"
Born: 19 Feb 1924 Died: 17 Nov 2005 Service: Lt. Col U. S. Air Force WW II Korea Vietnam, enlisted 23 Feb 1943; served 1 Sep 1952 - 30 Jun 1974 Burial:Action Cemetery
Luckenbach, Julius Charles
Born: 19 Oct 1917 Died: 15 Jun 1979 Service: Staff Sergeant WW II Burial:Greenwood Cemetery Plot: 1 007 031
Name & Rank: Luckenbach, W., Pvt. Com. off: Schuetze, L., & Krauskopf, E., Capt. Organ: Co. B (II), Gillespie Co., 3rd Front. Dist. BG J.D. McAdoo commdg., TST Enlist: Jan. 28-64 in Gillespie Co.; mus. in Jan. 28. Disch: Serv. Jan. 28 to Je. 1-64: 30 days at $2--$60. Descrip: Age 40 (38) Remarks: R&F 84; En. & Mus. Off. W.J. Locke; 1 shotgun; Co. org. under Act of D. 15-63; 1 MR & PR dtd. Jan. 28-64 to Je. 1-64 & 2 MR dtd. Jan. 27-64 & May '64. Source: Ancestry.com. Texas, Muster Roll Index Cards, 1838-1900 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011.
Aviation Cadet Guenther Luckenbach, age 19, is receiving his primary flight training at Aparton College, Tulsa, Oklahoma, at the present time. A graduate of F.H.S., 1941, Guenther enlisted in the Army Air Force on Feb. 23 1943 and took pre-flight training at the San Antonio Aviation Cadet Center and at Sheppard Field, and at Ada College, Oklahoma. Guenther is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Eddie Luckenbach. Along with his two cousins, Weston and Elmer Luckenbach, Guenther was likewise well known well known here as an outstanding athlete and all three boys have ranked high in sports circles.
Get Pilots Wings
Three Gillespians were commissioned Second Lieutenant in exercises at airfields in Oklahoma and Texas on June 27.
Lt. Robert Frank Petermann son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Petermann and 2nd. Lt. Arthur Harold Pressler, son of Mr. and Mrs. Kurt Pressler were graduated in impassive graduation ceremonies at the Frederick Army Air Field, Oklahoma, as bomber pilots.
2nd. Lt. Guenther Luckenbach, son of Mr. and Mrs. Eddie Luckenbach, was graduated as a bomber pilot at the Lubbock Army Air Field, Lubbock Texas.
All three newly commissioned officers visited their parents and other relatives after graduation.The World War II bomber pilot flew missions out of England. He served 31 years in the Air Force before retiring
Julius Luckenbach entered the service January 16, 1942, and received his honorable discharge October 9, 1945. As a member of Company B, 22th Infantry Training Battalion, he received the rank of Staff Sergeant.
Most of his two years of foreign service was on the small island of Attu, off the coast of the Aleution Islands, about 400 miles off the USSR coast. Since this was a highly secret mission, his parents did not know of his whereabouts until after the end of the war.
Luckenbach, Kermit Arthur "Luke"
Born: 7 Nov 1927 Died: 5 Sep 1995 Service: SGT U.S. Army Air Force WW II; enlisted 23 Feb 1946 Burial:St. Mary's Memorial Garden Cemetery Plot: J 12 125 B
Luckenbach, Max William
Born: 20 Jul 1869 Died: 31 Aug 1952 Service: Texas PVT Hospital Corps Spanish American War Burial:Tahoma Cemetery (Yakima WA)
Luckenbach, Roy Joseph
Born: 1 Mar 1913 Died: 7 Nov 1951 Service: CMOMM U.S. Coast Guard Res. WW II, served 18 Aug 1942 - 10 Oct 1945 Burial:Rest Haven Cemetery (Menard)
Luckenbach, Weston John, Sr.
Born: 21 Dec 1923 Died: 5 Jul 1987 Service: Ph M3/c U.S. Navy WW II; participated in battle at Iwo Jima Burial:Greenwood Cemetery Plot: 089 SEQ
Luckenbach, William August "Lucky", Jr.
Born: 26 Dec 1920 Died: 2 Jun 1944 Service: 2nd Lt. U.S. Army Air Forces WW II; KIA Burial:Florence American Cemetery
Luckett, Adela Mary (Kunz)
Born: 16 Dec 1918 Died: 2 Jun 2005 Service: 1st. Lt. U.S. Army WW II - Nurse Burial:Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery Plot: Section 46 Site 196
Weston J. Luckenbach, age 20, Hospital Apprentice, First Class, visited with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Wes. Luckenbach last week for the Christmas holidays. He left Monday to return to his station at the new Lake Front Hospital where he expects to receive a new assignment this week.
Weston, a graduate of F.H.S. in 1941, was inducted into the Navy on July 2, 1942, and received his training at San Diego, Calif., where he was awarded a diploma for successfully completing a course of study. He has been at New Orleans for about the past two and one-half months.
Luckenbach served from 2 Jul 1943 to 28 Jun 1946
Luckenbach served as Second Lieutenant in 779th Bomber Squadron, 464th Bomber Group, Heavy. He is memoralized at the Florence American Cemetery in Via Cassia, Italy. Awards include Air Medal and the Purple Heart. He entered the service in Texas; ID: 0-698308.
Gillespie Army Nurse Promoted In The Middle East.
Promotion from second to first lieutenant of Adela Kunz, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Max Kunz of Llano Road, Fredericksburg, was recently announced by U.S. Army Headquarters in the Middle East, where Miss Kunz is serving as a member of the Army Nurse Corps.
Lt Kunz is a graduate of St. Mary's School in Fredericksburg and of Santa Rosa School of Nursing in San Antonio. She has been in the service for three and one-half years, serving at Camp Bowie before being ordered overseas.
She is currently stationed in Egypt as a member of the staff of the biggest U. S. Base Hospital in the Middle East.
Miss Adela Kunz help win the softball game Championship 15 to 11 between several Middle East Women's softball teams.
Lucksinger, Royston H. "Hudson"
Born: 25 Aug 1921 Died: 11 Oct 1997 Service: TEC 4 U.S. Army WW II Burial:Der Stadt Friedhof Plot: I, 04, 06
Ludwig, Daniel
Born: 1 Feb 1834 Died: 25 Jul 1915 Service: Pvt. Co. B (II), Gillespie County, 3rd Frontier District TST 1864 Burial:Der Stadt Friedhof Plot: D, 04, 09
Luedecke, Kermit Arthur Walter
Born: 1 Jul 1917 Died: 9 Jan 1987 Service: U.S. Army WW II; enlisted 18 Sep 1940 Burial:Greenwood Cemetery Plot: 7 006 048
Name & Rank: Ludwig, Dan, Pvt. Com. off: Schuetze, L., & Krauskopf, E., Capt. Organ: Co. B (II), Gillespie Co., 3rd Front. Dist. BG J.D. McAdoo commdg., TST Enlist: Jan. 28-64 in Gillespie Co.; mus. in Jan. 28. Disch: Serv. Jan. 28 to Je. 1-64: 30 days at $2--$60. Descrip: Age 30 Remarks: R&F 84; En. & Mus. Off. W.J. Locke; 1 shotgun & 1 rifle; Co. org. under Act of D. 15-63; 1 MR & PR dtd. Jan. 28-64 to Je. 1-64 & 2 MR dtd. Jan. 27-64 & May '64. Source: Ancestry.com. Texas, Muster Roll Index Cards, 1838-1900 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011.
Luedicke, Otto
Born: 19 Dec 1887 Died: 17 Feb 1964 Service: U.S. Army WW I; discharged 6 Jul 1918 Burial:St. Mary's Garden Cemetery Plot: SMG H 04 054
Luker, Anthony Arthur
Born: 1 Nov 1891 Died: 9 Dec 1982 Service: GM 2nd Class U.S. Navy WW I Burial:Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery Plot: Section 2 site 597
Lumpkins, William Norman "Billy"
Born: 18 Nov 1917 Died: 17 Aug 1999 Service: U.S. Army WW II, enlisted 26 Mar 1941 Burial:New Gooch Cemetery
Source: Master Index of Veterans at the Gillespie Co. Courthouse, Book 1, p. 314
Lundeen, Ernest Edward
Born: 30 Jun 1897 Died: 17 Jul 1968 Service: WW I Burial:Greenwood Cemetery Plot: 6 004 006
Lundeen, Robert Charles "Red"
Born: 15 Jun 1924 Died: 18 Feb 2007 Service: TEC$ U.S. Army WW II Burial:Greenwood Cemetery Plot: 7 023 029
Lundeen, Vernon Edward
Born: 12 Aug 1920 Died: 28 Aug 1990 Service: U.S. Air Force WW II Burial:Greenwood Cemetery Plot: 2 003 063
Wins Soldier Medal for Bougainville Rescue For rescuing a navy gunner from his burning plane after it crashed into a howitzer emplacement at Bougainville in the Solomons, the soldier's medal has been awarded Pvt. Robert C. Lundeen, 20, son of Mrs. and Mrs. Ernest E. Lundeen, 2618 Kilburn avenue. News of the award, which is given for heroism outside of combat, comes from Lt. Gen. Millard F. Harmon, commanding the U.S. army forces in the South Pacific. The medal was presented to Private Lundeen on June 9 for the rescue he made, with his own life in danger from a possible explosion, on Feb. 19. Private Lundeen has written his parents of the plane crash but said little about his own part in the rescue. He did, however, send his mother a bracelet made of a scrap of alumunum from the plane. Serving in the field artillery, Private Lundeen has been overseas since last October. A graduate of West high school, he was employed at Ipsen Industries, Inc., before entering the army in April, 1943. He trained at Camp Robers and Fort Ord, both in California. An older brother, Vernon, is an aviation cadet now at San Antonio, Tex. [Rockford Register - Republic; Friday, Jun 23, 1944]
