Kylee Ashley Dornbush

Dan married Cindy Lou Headrick. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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World War II Prisoners of War, 1941-1946 Record about Clair W Headrick
Name: Clair W Headrick
Race: White
Residence State: South Dakota

Report Date: 23 Jul 1944
Latest Report Date: 25 Apr 1945

Grade: Technician 5th Grade
Grade Notes: Chief nurse or Head dietitian or Head physical therapy aide or Technician 5th Grade
Service Branch: Army
Arm or Service: Field Artillery
Arm or Service Code: Field Artillery
Organization Type: 105 MM Howitzer Truck Drawn
Parent Unit Type: Battalion/Training Battalion Combat/Special Troops
Area Served: European Theatre: Germany
Detaining Country: Germany
Camp: 005
Status: Returned to Military Control, Liberated or Repatriated
Report Source: Individual has been reported through sources considered official.

Posted on the South Dakota World War II Memorial website
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The following was written by Clair Headrick.

I'm an Ex-POW/MIA
And in a land so very far away,
And tho' by no fault of our own,
We were surrendered

Died:
Clair Headrick
FLANDREAU - Clair W. Headrick, 84, died Wednesday, Aug. 30, 2000, at his farm near Flandreau.
He was born May 24, 1916, on a farm northwest of Flandreau. He attended Stagelman rural school and worked in the Civilian Conservation Corps at Rochford. He worked as a farm hand in Moody County.
He married Margaret Gregg on Dec. 23, 1941, in Sioux Falls. He served in the U.S. Armed Forces during World War II, and was captured in 1944. He was liberated from a prisoner-of-war camp in 1945 and returned home later that year. He attended welding training at the Flandreau Indian School, then worked for Dibble Motors in Pipestone, Minn. He started his own body shop in Flandreau, then began farming in 1960. He moved into town in 1987.
He was a member of the Second Presbyterian Church, Flandreau Masonic Lodge No. 11, AF & AM, Flandreau American Legion, Veterans of Foreign Wars and the Siouxland Chapter of the AX-POW. He served as former commander of the South Dakota State POW organization.
Survivors include his wife, Margaret two sons: Gregg of Phoenix, and Roger of Luverne, Minn. three daughters: Jolene Dobbs of Rapid City, Margo Zephier of Flandreau, and Cindy Dornbush of Omaha 10 grandchildren a great-granddaughter three brothers: Clifford and Richard, both of Flandreau, and John of Sioux Falls and three sisters: Mildred Applegate of Citrus Heights, Calif., Lois Allen of Mesa, Ariz., and Nadine Boever of Brinnon, Wash.
Services begin at 2 p.m. Saturday at the Second Presbyterian Church in Flandreau with burial in Union Cemetery.
Visitation begins at 3 p.m. today at the Skroch Funeral Chapel in Flandreau with a prayer service at 7 p.m.

Clair married Margaret Hutton Gregg on 23 Dec 1941 in Sioux Falls, Minnehaha County, South Dakota, USA. Margaret was born on 26 Jan 1920 in Egan, Moody County, South Dakota, USA; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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possibly 5 daughters

Peter married Lulu Adela Cavner on 12 Feb 1906 in Flandreau, Moody County, South Dakota, USA. Lulu (daughter of Matthew H. Cavner and Mary C. Buck) was born on 5 Nov 1884 in Egan, Moody County, South Dakota, USA; died on 4 Apr 1922 in Flandreau, Moody County, South Dakota, USA; was buried on 12 Apr 1922 in Union Cemetery, Moody, South Dakota, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Occupation: Egan, Moody County, South Dakota, USA; schoolteacher Taught at rural school six miles northwest of Egan, Moody County, South Dakota

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