Harmon - Charles A.
CHARLES A. HARMON
Source: Crawfordsville Journal Review 18 Apr 1949 p 1 typed by Walt W
The body of Technician Fifth Grade Charles A. Harmon is scheduled to arrive in Lebanon Tuesday morning. It will be taken to the William Scott Funeral home there where friends may pay their respects. Funeral services will be held at 2 o'clock Thursday afternoon at the funeral home. Rev. J. R. Zimmerman, of the First Evangelical United Brethren church of Indianapolis, will officiate. Burial will be at Oak Hill cemetery, Lebanon, with the American Legion and V.F.W. posts of Lebanon to conduct military rites at the graveside. Cpl. Harmon, a field artillery gunner in the Third Army, was killed Feb. 12, 1945 in Luxembourg. He enlisted May 20, 1943, and was sent overseas June 22, 1944. He also served in England, France and Belgium. Cpl. Harmon, a former Crawfordsville resident, was born April 19, 1912, near Lebanon. He was graduated from the Lebanon high school in 1932. While a resident of Crawfordsville he was employed at the R. R. Donnelley & Sons plant here. He also was a member of the First Baptist church of this city. Surviving are the father, Elza Harmon, of Indianapolis; the mother, Mrs. Ruby Hinkle Abbott, of Fort Dodge, Ia., and four sisters, Mrs. Betty Beck, Mrs. Ruth Pearcy, Mrs. Marybelle Yager and Mrs. Arnetta Carr, all of Indianapolis, and a grandmother, Mrs. Ida Coggswell, of Lebanon.