This page is dedicated to our Garfield classmates who died for America and to those who served in the Armed Forces to defend America.  May we never forget them and what they did for us.  Many thanks to Jerry Coy, Class of ’68, for compiling a list of Garfield graduates who died in World War II.  If you have served or know of others who have served or died for our country, please let me know so I can add them to this page.

If you want to listen to Lee Greenwood’s “God Bless the USA” as you look at the names, click below.

Lee Greenwood – God Bless the USA (I’m Proud to be an American)

World War II

Cpl. John R. Forsythe, Class of 1944, drowned, Dutch New Guinea, February 23, 1945

Lt. Ray M. Griffiths, Jr., Class of 1939, Infantile Paralysis, Texas, December 28, 1944

Pfc. Jacob O. Dooley, Class of 1942, Drowned, Belgium, December 25, 1944

Eddie Kosterno, Class of 1935, Killed in Action, Belgium, December 24, 1944

S/Sgt. William J. Boyle, Class of 1943, Plane Crash, England, December 15, 1944

Sgt. Robert E. Burton, Class of 1942, Died, Diptheria, Paris, France, October 16, 1944

Lt. Robert Q. Cordell, Class of 1939, Killed in Plane Crash, Australia, February 25, 1944

Lt. Eugene L. DeLisle, Class of 1937, Killed in Action, Italy, December 1, 1943

Lt. William Woodard, Class of 1939, Killed in Plane Crash, England, November 15, 1943

Sgt. Wayne Anderson, Class of 1933, Killed in Action, Italy, November 13, 1943

Pvt. William Bovenschulte, Class of 1942, Killed in Action, New Georgia Island, July 11, 1943

Lt. Mafalda Neukom Arney, Class of  1920, Plane Crash, Peterson Field, Colorado Springs, May 22, 1943

Lt. Matthew Kennedy, Class of 1936, Airplane Crash, El Toro, California, March 17, 1943

Lt. Fred Williams, Class of 1934, Airline Crash, Kelly Field, Texas, March 1, 1943

Henry Bohnert, Class of 1936, C.P.T. Officer for I.S.T.C., Airplane Crash, Terre Haute, Indiana, February 22, 1943

Lt. August Sieferman, Class of 1936, Airplane Crash, Guatemala, September 28, 1942

Pvt. Victor Kirk, Class of  1933, Torpedoed in Caribbean Sea, May 27, 1942

1st Lt. Walter Tormohlen, Class of 1928, Killed in Action, Italy, April 1, 1945

MM 2/C C. Waggoner, Killed South Pacific, March, 1945

Sgt. Bernard Powers, Class of 1940, Killed in Action, Germany, April, 1945

Joseph H. Lapsansky, Class of 1929, Killed, Philippines, April 19, 1945

Pfc. John Thompson, Class of 1943, Killed, Germany, April 4, 1945

Lt. Stanley W. Sayre, Class of 1936, Plane Crash, Philippines, June 22, 1945

Lt. William C. Donald, Class of 1939, Killed, Germany, April 14, 1945

1st Lt. Jack Crowell, Class of 1940, Killed in Crash, Ecuador, August 18, 1945

Vietnam

Mike Ash, Class of 1966, Killed in Vietnam, February 16, 1968

Mike Chaney, Class of 1966, Died in Vietnam, November 11, 1968

Mark Huston, Class of 1967, Killed in Vietnam, June 30, 1971

Leslie McKillop, Class of 1967, Killed in Vietnam, May 12, 1969

Our Veterans

 

 

 

 

 

 

MSgt. Mike Roberts, US Air Force, March 1969 – June 1992

 

SMsgt. Jack Case, US Air Force, June 1965-November 1987

TSgt Nathan T Edwards US Air Force, June 1971-July 1991

 

1st Lt. Gary Frey, US Army, April 1969-September 1973

Colonel Sally J. Petty, US Air Force, Nurse Corps, Jan 1982-Feb 2008

1Lt Mark Curtis, US Air Force Medical Service MSC August 1972 – January 1978

Tom Poff, Viet Nam ‘67-’69 class of ‘66

Kim McDowell, Aircrewman in US Navy June 1970 – April 1978, Aircrewman USN Reserves May 1982 – Sept 1986