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Marvin TeWinkel

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Marvin TeWinkel

Birth
Sheboygan County, Wisconsin, USA
Death
7 Mar 1945 (aged 24)
France
Burial
Wilson, Sheboygan County, Wisconsin, USA Add to Map
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MARVIN TeWINKEL REPORTED KILLED IN FRANCE ON MARCH 7

Technician 3/C Marvin TeWinkel, 24, son of Mr. and Mrs. Alvin TeWinkel, 2326 N. Fifth Street, has joined the ranks of Sheboygan's honored war dead.

According to communication from the war department in Washington which was received Thursday by his wife, Mrs. Gladys TeWinkel, Route 2, Kiel, he was killed in France on March 7. Complete details of the fatality were not immediately disclosed.

Technician TeWinkel was inducted into the army on Aug. 5, 1942, and was assigned to Camp Lee, West Virginia, for ordinance training. Later that year he was transferred to the Aberdeen, Md., Proving Grounds for advanced training.

In October 1943, he left for overseas duty and since that time had been station with a bomb disposal unit of the ordinance division some where in France. Just prior to entering the combat theater in France he spent a furlough at his home here in September, 1943.

Marvin TeWinkel was born in Town Lima on Nov. 22, 1920. He attended the Sheboygan Christian school and was a 1938 graduate of Central High School. On Jan. 31, 1942, he was united in marriage with Miss Gladys Voss and at the time of his induction was employed at the Fessler Food store. He was a member of the First Christian Reformed church.

Survivors include, in addition to his wife and parents, a 2-year-old daughter, Karen; two brothers, John with the U.S. Army in New Caledonia, and Alvin, at home; three sisters, Gertrude, Janet and Ruth, all at home; the maternal grandfather, Peter Oostdyke, Sheboygan, and the paternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. William TeWinkel, Oostburg.

Sheboygan Press, The | Sheboygan, WI | Tuesday, March 20, 1945 | pg 3 w/photo

Re-burial services for Technician, third class Marvin Te Winkel, son of Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Te Winkel of 1811 N. Second street, will be held at 1:30 pm Thursday at the Ballhorn Funeral chapels. The Rev. J.C. Schaap and the Rev. J. Rosenbloom will conduct the rites and burial will be made in the Hartman cemetery in the town of Wilson.

Friends may call at the funeral chapels from Wednesday noon to the time of services. The body will arrive in Sheboygan under military escort at 9:45 pm this evening.

T/3 Marvin Te Winkel was killed in action in France on March 7, 1945.

Sheboygan Press, The | Sheboygan, WI | April 12, 1949 | pg 16
MARVIN TeWINKEL REPORTED KILLED IN FRANCE ON MARCH 7

Technician 3/C Marvin TeWinkel, 24, son of Mr. and Mrs. Alvin TeWinkel, 2326 N. Fifth Street, has joined the ranks of Sheboygan's honored war dead.

According to communication from the war department in Washington which was received Thursday by his wife, Mrs. Gladys TeWinkel, Route 2, Kiel, he was killed in France on March 7. Complete details of the fatality were not immediately disclosed.

Technician TeWinkel was inducted into the army on Aug. 5, 1942, and was assigned to Camp Lee, West Virginia, for ordinance training. Later that year he was transferred to the Aberdeen, Md., Proving Grounds for advanced training.

In October 1943, he left for overseas duty and since that time had been station with a bomb disposal unit of the ordinance division some where in France. Just prior to entering the combat theater in France he spent a furlough at his home here in September, 1943.

Marvin TeWinkel was born in Town Lima on Nov. 22, 1920. He attended the Sheboygan Christian school and was a 1938 graduate of Central High School. On Jan. 31, 1942, he was united in marriage with Miss Gladys Voss and at the time of his induction was employed at the Fessler Food store. He was a member of the First Christian Reformed church.

Survivors include, in addition to his wife and parents, a 2-year-old daughter, Karen; two brothers, John with the U.S. Army in New Caledonia, and Alvin, at home; three sisters, Gertrude, Janet and Ruth, all at home; the maternal grandfather, Peter Oostdyke, Sheboygan, and the paternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. William TeWinkel, Oostburg.

Sheboygan Press, The | Sheboygan, WI | Tuesday, March 20, 1945 | pg 3 w/photo

Re-burial services for Technician, third class Marvin Te Winkel, son of Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Te Winkel of 1811 N. Second street, will be held at 1:30 pm Thursday at the Ballhorn Funeral chapels. The Rev. J.C. Schaap and the Rev. J. Rosenbloom will conduct the rites and burial will be made in the Hartman cemetery in the town of Wilson.

Friends may call at the funeral chapels from Wednesday noon to the time of services. The body will arrive in Sheboygan under military escort at 9:45 pm this evening.

T/3 Marvin Te Winkel was killed in action in France on March 7, 1945.

Sheboygan Press, The | Sheboygan, WI | April 12, 1949 | pg 16

Inscription

S/Sgt. 23 Ord. Serv.
Plat Bomb Disposal
World War II



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