Born: 21 Nov 1929 Died: 2 Aug 1994 Service: A1C U.S. Air Force Korea Burial:Der Stadt Friedhof Plot: N, 03, 09
Fiedler, Richard William
Born: 2 Nov 1928 Died: 20 Jan 2006 Service: U.S. Army WW II; served 9 Jan 1946 - 27 May 1947 Burial:Harper Community Cemetery Plot: 01, 02, 010
Fiedler, Roman John
Born: 31 Jan 1922 Died: 26 Feb 2002 Service: PVT U.S. Army WW II, discharge 1 Oct 1943 Burial:Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery Plot: Section 26 Site 2781
Source: Master Index of Veterans at the Gillespie Co. Courthouse, Book 1 p. 376
Fiedler, Truman Chester
Born: 27 Oct 1927 Died: 13 Feb 1995 Service: PFC U.S. Army, served 8 Jan 1954 - 10 Mar 1955 Burial:St. Mary's Memorial Garden Cemetery Plot: M2 WSD C 202
Fiedler, Walter Ernst
Born: 14 Oct 1920 Died: 28 Jun 2006 Service: U.S. Navy WW II Burial:Not stated / Unknown
Fiedler, Werner Robert
Born: 10 Jun 1926 Died: 3 Mar 2010 Service: PFC U.S. Army WW II, enlisted 18 Oct 1944, Pacific Burial:Cremated
Source: Master Index of Veterans at the Gillespie Co. Courthouse, Book 3 p. 333
Walter Fiedler, seaman First Class, entered the US Naval Training Station at San Diego, California in May 1944. Previously he had worked for 2 1/2 years in California in an airplane factory. He is now stationed on an aircraft carrier and is seeing action somewhere in the Pacific.
Iwo Jima was no Sunday Picnic so says Fredericksburg Navy Boy Who Survived sinking of Bismarck Sea. One of the most thrilling experiences to come out of the present war with the Japs in the Pacific Theater was related at least in part by Walter Fielder one of the lucky U.S. Navy men who returned home last week to spend a 30-day "Survivors" leave with home folks. Fielder, Coxswain Petty Officer third class, son of Lionel Fiedler, this is his first visit to Fredericksburg in almost three and one-half years, the past ten months of which were spent with the Navy in the Pacific.
Fiedler is one of 400 listed survivors of the ill-fated Bismarck Sea which was sent to the bottom by enemy action some miles off the shore of Iwo Jima, 650 miles south of Tokyo, which American Marines took in bitter fighting only recently.
Pvt. Werner R. Fiedler entered the service at Ft. Sam Houston on Oct. 14, 1944 and has been transferred to Camp Fannin near Tylor Texas where he and a group of other Gillespie County selectees are undergoing their basic training.Fiedler served on Bataan, Apr 1945, along with Fred Dietel, Ernest Joseph Hanus (US Navy), Roy Langerhans (Air Corps).
Field, George Eugene William
Born: 21 Nov 1921 Died: 1 Jan 2013 Service: U.S. Army WW II; served Oct 1941 - ? Burial:Greenwood Cemetery Plot: 5 002 015
Born: 18 Feb 1909 Died: 2 May 1972 Service: U.S. Army Air Forces WW II; enlisted 5 Oct 1942 Burial:Live Oak Cemetery (Uhland TX)
Field was a member of the 98th Infrantry Division Band.
Source: Master Index of Veterans at the Gillespie Co. Courthouse, Book 1 p. 345
Fischer, Duval Boyce "Boyce"
Born: 29 Jul 1926 Died: 26 Mar 2008 Service: Coast Guard WW II, discharge 10 May 1946, U.S. Navy, discharge 10 May 1946 Burial:Greenwood Cemetery Plot: 5 005 020
Fischer, Herman
Born: 15 May 1895 Died: 16 May 1986 Service: WW I Burial:Greenwood Cemetery Plot: 2 005 026
Fischer, Herman Heinrich
Born: 1 Jan 1842 Died: 11 May 1927 Service: Pvt.-Mason County Minute Men 1861. Pvt. Co. for Mason Co., Prec. No. 1, 2nd Frontier District TST 1864 Burial:Der Stadt Friedhof Plot: D, 05, 30
ContributesTo Jap Defeat
Coast Guardsman Boyce Fischer, son of Mr. and Mrs. Herman Fischer of here, who contributed to the defeat of the Japs by serving aboard a Coast Guard-manned troop transport.
Source: Master Index of Veterans at the Gillespie Co. Courthouse, Book 3 p. 48, Book 2 p. 90
Born: 19 Oct 1926 Died: 27 Aug 1990 Service: Capt. U.S. Air Force WW II, Korea Burial:Trinity Lutheran Plot: N 09 10
Fisher, Adolph G.
Born: 8 Sep 1890 Died: 19 Jan 1966 Service: PVT U.S. Army WW I discharge 24 Jan 1919 Burial:Houston National Cemetery Plot: Section C Site 42
Source: Master Index of Veterans at the Gillespie Co. Courthouse, Book 1 p. 344
Fitze, Charles Baldwin
Born: 6 Feb 1895 Died: 3 Jan 1992 Service: PVT U.S. Army WW I Burial:Greenwood Cemetery Plot: 6 004 088
Flach, Thomas Ernst "Tommy"
Born: 22 Aug 1914 Died: 19 Feb 2012 Service: U.S. Navy WW II, served Jan 1944 - 12 Dec 1945 Burial:Comfort Cemetery
Fleming, William Hill "Bill"
Born: 24 Sep 1894 Died: 11 Mar 1991 Service: WW I; served 30 Jun 1917 - 4 Jul 1919 Burial:Garden of Memories
Mr. Fleming was the last soldier from the Kerrville area to have served in the famed 36th Division during World War 1.
Fletcher, Dale Thompson
Born: 2 Apr 1931 Died: 25 Jan 2014 Service: U.S. Air Force Korea Burial:Meusebach Creek Cemetery
Fletcher, William Everett
Born: 15 Jul 1899 Died: 8 Dec 1976 Service: U.S. Army WW I Burial:Harper Community Cemetery Plot: 01, 01, 066
Flick, Herman
Born: 17 Nov 1839 Died: abt 20 Aug 1862 Service: Unionist who was captured and killed after the battle at the Nueces River by Confederates Burial:Treue der Union Monument
Flick, Timothy Merle
Born: 26 Feb 1948 Died: 13 Apr 2021 Service: U.S. Navy; served 1966 - 1969 Burial:Not stated / Unknown
Flink, Casper
Born: 20 Oct 1913 Died: 3 May 1996 Service: WW II Burial:Greenwood Cemetery Plot: 7 027 023
Flint, Billy Dave, Sr.
Born: 27 Dec 1933 Died: 27 Mar 1975 Service: PFC U.S. Army; served 10 Jan 1957 - 9 Jan 1959 Burial:Der Stadt Friedhof Plot: M, 12, 01
In 1966, he joined the Navy and became an Ensign 1st class. He was stationed on an aircraft carrier, the USS Ranger in the waters off the coast of Vietnam. He served his country in Vietnam as a tango boat captain and a gunner.
Flores, Fernando G.
Born: 30 May 1936 Died: 3 Apr 2014 Service: U.S. Navy Vietnam; served over 20 years Burial:Elgin City Cemetery
Floyd, Amos Morgan "Buddy"
Born: 18 Sep 1923 Died: 12 May 2014 Service: Pvt. U.S. Army WW II, served 9 Sep 1943 - 9 Feb 1946 Burial:Greenwood Cemetery Plot: 7 011 077
Foerster, Bruno Priess, Jr.
Born: 20 Oct 1920 Died: 24 May 2006 Service: U.S. Army WW II, served 25 Aug 1942 - 17 Nov 1945 Burial:Boerne Cemetery
Floyd served in the U.S. Army in Company G 158th Infantry during World War II. He served as a combat infantryman and scout. For his service, which included the Battle of Luzon, Floyd was decorated with two bronze stars, as well as other medals, bars and ribbons. He was wounded, but declined the Purple Heart. He felt to accept it would dishonor those who had lost their lives in battle.
Source: Master Index of Veterans at the Gillespie Co. Courthouse, File # 2010020121
Source: Master Index of Veterans at the Gillespie Co. Courthouse, Book 2 p. 193
Foerster, Hubert Herman
Born: 7 Feb 1926 Died: 28 Jun 2002 Service: U.S. Army WW II, discharge 30 May 1952 Burial:Greenwood Cemetery Plot: 203 NQ
Fogg, Robert Clarence
Born: 22 Sep 1923 Died: 21 Jan 1996 Service: Lt. Col. U.S. Air Force WW II Burial:Not stated / Unknown
Source: Master Index of Veterans at the Gillespie Co. Courthouse, Book 3 p. 236
In Italy with AAF
I'm glad number one is outo fo the way," says 1st Lt. Robert C. Fogg, 21, Fredericksburg Tex., after returning from his first combat mission. The Liberator pilot is shown here completing his flight report after landing. Lt. Fogg is with a B-24 bombardment group that has been hammering at installations in widely scattered parts of Europe. The organization recently received the Distinguished Unit Citation. A former student of San Antonio Jr. College, Lt. Fogg entered the service on March 20, 1942. Before coming overseas in September, he was stationed in Laredo, Tex. He is the son-in-law of Mr. and Mrs. Felix Lehne.
He enlisted in the U.S. Air Force at age 18. His wartime service included 63 missions as commander of a B-24 in Italy and later as air supply and evacuation in Korea.
He was awarded the Purple Heart, the Outstanding Flying Cross four times and the Air Medal three times.
Folsom, Ronald Everett "Ron"
Born: 24 Nov 1940 Died: 22 Mar 2013 Service: U.S. Air Force; served 6 years Burial:Cremated
Forberg, Edwin George, Lt. Col.
Born: 22 Feb 1918 Died: 28 Jan 2003 Service: U.S. Air Force WW II Burial:Harper Community Cemetery Plot: 01, 04, 250
Ford, Gene Lester
Born: abt 1936 Died: 2 May 2013 Service: U.S. Army Burial:Cremated
Born: 20 Jun 1912 Died: 18 May 2009 Service: U.S. Navy WW II Burial:Not stated / Unknown
Foster, Gerald Leonard
Born: 12 Oct 1929 Died: 17 Mar 2010 Service: U.S. Army WW II / Korea; Based in Japan with occupational forces beginning 24 Oct 1946; Served in Korea beginning 25 Sep 1950 Burial:Garden of Memories
Air Force discharge 18 Mar 1948 File # 2010020070
Army Release to ERC 29 Sep 1951 File # 2010020071
Foster, Leonard Francis
Born: 21 Aug 1921 Died: 2 Aug 1990 Service: Pvt. U.S. Army WW II Burial:Gillespie County Cemetery Plot: Block 2, L
Born: 7 Jul 1940 Died: 23 Feb 1983 Service: PVT U.S. Army Burial:Christadelphian Cemetery Plot: Row 04
Foster was commissioned in the U.S. Navy in October 1958. He was stationed at Pearl Harbor, assigned to the USS Elkhorn, and USS Maury.
Source: Master Index of Veterans at the Gillespie Co. Courthouse, File # 2007020075
Born: 6 Mar 1930 Died: 18 Jul 2013 Service: AK2 U.S. Navy Korea; served 4 years Burial:Cremated
Franke, Charles Albert "Carlie"
Born: 25 Dec 1933 Died: 25 Aug 2011 Service: U.S. Army Germany; served 1953 - 1956 Burial:St. Mary's Garden Cemetery Plot: SMG L 10 086 A
Frank served four years at San Diego Naval Air Station.
Franke, Rudolph Lewis "Rudi"
Born: 8 Aug 1896 Died: 3 Nov 1975 Service: WW I National Guard Burial:St. Mary's Garden Cemetery Plot: SMG L 09 077 A
Frantzen, Adela Bertha Louise (Borchers)
Born: 28 Jul 1920 Died: 2 Nov 2014 Service: Nurse U.S. Army WW II Burial:Comfort Cemetery
Frantzen, Andrew Robert
Born: 24 Nov 1918 Died: 30 Jul 1943 Service: Pfc 37 Inf Div WW II, enlisted 14 Jul 1941, KIA at New Georgia Island Burial:Der Stadt Friedhof Plot: G, 18, 30
Source: Master Index of Veterans at the Gillespie Co. Courthouse, Book 1 p. 333
Lt. Adela Borchers, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Louis Borchers of Fredericksburg, has been transferred to Camp Barkeley this week, where she will receive orders perhaps for overseas duty.
Lt. Borchers is a graduate of Fredericksburg High School, 1938. She entered nurses training at Santa Rosa Hospital in San Antonio in Sept. 1939 where she graduated in May, 1942. She enlisted into the Army Nursing Corps in October 1942 and has been stationed at Brooks General Hospital at Ft. San Houston until she was transferred to Camp Barkeley on Oct. 18.
2nd Lt. Adela Borchers a veteran of 16 months overseas service with the US Army Nursing Corps, currently is home on leave after having been with the US 3rd Army in it's victorious battle for Germany.
The Gillespie County nurse lived for four months in tents after she landed in France two weeks after the invasion on June 21,1944. her unit entered the St. Lo area and treated Allied soldiers two and three miles behind the front lines.
on one occasion she saw a tent of fellow nurses in her unit hit by an enemy shell and for three weeks her unit was caught between cross fire of the Germans and Americans as artillery fire roared over their heads.
Following the first hectic three or four months, when Allied forces gained the toe hold that led to the ultimate victory, Lt. Borchers was stationed in a captured German hospital in Verdum, France. it was here that she cared foe Louis Knoche after he was critically wounded and met Carl Fuhrmann, also from here.
After Verdum, she went to Luxembourg, thence to Trier Germany where she became ill, was hospitalized and returned to Reims France, from where she was sent to England and then back to the States.
Lt. Borchers, a 1942 graduate of Santa Rosa School Of Nursing, San Antonio, entered the service that same year and served for 12 months at Brook's General Hospital, San Antonio before being transferred to camp Barkeley in 1943, where she remained until assigned to overseas duty. one of her constant companions during training and overseas was Lt. Florine Mangelberger also from here.
Lt. Borchers wars the European theater of Operations ribbon with three battle stars for her 16 months service overseas.
She will remain here on a visit with her folks until July 10 when she will report to the Ashburn Army Hospital at McKinney Texas for further treatment. She is to be transferred to the 8th Service Command for reassignment after a clean bill of health.
Adela served in the U.S. Army 34th Evacuation Hospital as a 1st Lt. from December 1, 1942, to December 10, 1945. Adela also served in Normandy, Northern France, the UK, and Germany. She received the European African Middle Eastern Ribbon.
The War Department at Washington notified Mr. and Mrs. Emil Frantzen their son, Pfc. Andrew R. Frantzen, had been killed in action in the Southwest Pacific area on July 30th 1943. Frantzen age 24, is the first officially reported 2nd World War casualty of Gillespie County to have died in overseas combat duty. Andrew was inducted into the army at Fort Sam Houston on July 9th, 1941 and received training at Camp Wolters, Texas, Camp Shelby, Mass., at Indiantown Gap, PA., and prior to his transfer overseas on May 10th 1942 and since that time is believed to have been in the Southwest Pacific area, presumably in the Solomon Islands, where fighting has been in progress between American and Jap forces this summer.
The deceased soldier was born Nov. 24, 1918 at Fredericksburg. At the time he died for his Country he had attained the age of 24 years, 8 months, and 6 days. He was baptized and confirmed at Fredericksburg by Rev. Konzak. He attended school at Lower South Grape Creek and after leaving school assisted his parents on the farm.
On May 24, 1942 he left the States and was stationed for about a year in the Fiji Islands. Since then he was in active service in the Pacific war area where he made the supreme sacrifice for his Country. Surviving are his grief stricken parents, three sisters and one brother: Elise, Mrs. Frank Oatman, Clifton E. Frantzen, Elenora, Mrs. Eddie Pressler, and Miss Paula Frantzen, and Other relatives.
For destroying an enemy machine gun and crew, Pfc. Andrew R. Frantzen, Route 1, Fredericksburg, Tex. has been awarded the Bronze star Medal posthumously. The medal was presented to his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Emil Frantzen by Brig. Gen. Charles K. Nulsen at Fort Sam Houston Thursday, December 14, 1944. Private Frantzen, 24 years old, was killed in action in the Southwest Pacific July 30,1943. The Purple Heart Medal has been received by his parents.
"Private First Class Frantzen stood up, undaunted by enemy fire and destroyed an enemy machine gun and crew. this prompt act prevented the enemy from inflicting serious casualties on our troops," the citation accompanying the medal reads. "In heroically disregarding his own personal safety in the face of enemy fire, he displayed outstanding courage, initiative and gallantry," the citation says. PFC. Frantzen joined the Army July 9, 1941 at Dodd Field. He trained and went overseas with the 37th Infantry Division.
A brother, Clifton E., 22 years old, is in the Navy. Sisters are Mrs. Frank Oatman, Kerrville; Mrs. Eddie Pressler, Boerne, and Miss Paula Olga Frantzen of Fredericksburg.
Born: abt 1822 Died: Jul 1864 Service: Pvt. Co. B (II), Gillespie County, 3rd Frontier District TST 1864 Burial:Missing Grave Project
Frantzen, Clifton Emil
Born: 16 Sep 1922 Died: 8 Aug 2010 Service: U.S. Navy WW II U.S.A. Hawaii, discharge 5 Mar 1946 Burial:Comfort Cemetery
Name & Rank: Frandzen, Chr., Pvt. Com. off: Krauskopf, E.., Capt. Organ: Co. B (II), Gillespie Co., 3rd Front. Dist. BG J.D. McAdoo commdg., TST Enlist: May 15-64 in Gillespie Co.; mus. in May 15 Disch: Died July, 1864 Descrip: Age 42 Remarks: R&F 84; En. & Mus. Off. Capt. Krauskopf; 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. Name not on MR dtd. Jan 27-64. Source: Ancestry.com. Texas, Muster Roll Index Cards, 1838-1900 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011.
Source: Master Index of Veterans at the Gillespie Co. Courthouse, Book 3 p. 5
Frantzen, Curtis Lee
Born: 21 Jul 1944 Died: 16 Oct 1994 Service: U.S. Air Force Burial:Der Stadt Friedhof Plot: J, 19, 20
Frantzen, Erasmus
Born: 1814 Died: 31 Oct 1876 Service: Lt. Texas Ranger; member of Detached Mounted Rangers; served 24 Mar 1860 - 19 Jun 1860 Burial:Erasmus Frantzen Cemetery Plot: R 2
Frantzen, Joe Christian
Born: 8 Sep 1945 Died: 14 Oct 2019 Service: SGT U.S. Air Force Vietnam, discharge 1 Jun 1969 Burial:Der Stadt Friedhof Plot: J, 19, 18
Source: Master Index of Veterans at the Gillespie Co. Courthouse, Book 4 p. 51
Frantzen, Reinhard Louis
Born: 10 Oct 1930 Died: 2 Mar 1988 Service: U.S. Marine Corps, discharge 19 Nov 1953 Burial:Der Stadt Friedhof Plot: J, 09, 07
Frantzen, Rudolph William "Rudy"
Born: 9 Oct 1920 Died: 2 Dec 1985 Service: Pvt U.S. Marine Corps WW II; served Jan 1945 - 30 Sep 1946 Burial:St. Mary's Memorial Garden Cemetery Plot: A 09 156 B
Frantzen, Walter August Otto
Born: 3 Oct 1916 Died: 23 Sep 1990 Service: U.S. Army WW II, served 20 Aug 1940 - 24 Jul 1943 Burial:Memorial Garden Cemetery
Source: Master Index of Veterans at the Gillespie Co. Courthouse, Book 3 p. 313
Arrives overseas
Pvt. Rudy W. Frantzen, husband of Mrs. Olga Kensing Frantzen and son of Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Frantzen, who recently arrived overseas at Guam. He entered the Marine Corps in January 1945 and trained in South and North Carolina prior to going overseas.
Source: Master Index of Veterans at the Gillespie Co. Courthouse, Book 3 p. 1
Source: Master Index of Veterans at the Gillespie Co. Courthouse, Book 1 p. 358