Person:Earl Irwin (1)

WW II casualty, Pfc.

Obituary from Middletown Times-Herald, December 14, 1948

FUNERAL RITES FOR PFC IRWIN THURSDAY Soldier Was Killed in Action at Percy, France

PORT JERVIS--Private funeral services will be held in the Porter and Hardin Funeral Home here at two-thirty o'clock Thursday afternoon for Private First Class Earl E. Irwin, of Montague, who was killed in action in France in 1944. Private Irwin was born in Liberty, N.Y., on March the third, 1913, and was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Harrison Irwin. He attended school in Matamoras and later at the Port Jervis High School. On November the twenty-second, 1941, he married Irene Middleton of Montague. He was inducted into service on March the eleventh, 1942, and following training at Camp Livingston, La., Camp Gordon, and Camp Pickett, Va., he went overseas with the Military Police of the 110th Infantry, of the Twenty-eighth Division. He was killed in action at Percy, France, on August third, 1944. He received posthumous awards of the Bronze Star and Purple Heart. Besides his parents, who live in Montague, he is survived by three brothers: Nial of Clinton, N.J., Harry of Port Jervis, and Carl of Montague. Two sisters, Mrs. Doris Laizure and Mrs. Jane Fuller, both of Port Jervis, also survive. The services will be conducted by the Rev. Herbert F. Dabanett, pastor of Drew Methodist Church. Interment will be in Pine Grove Cemetery, at Matamoras.