DEARBORN, Michigan – As Memorial Day approaches, the Dearborn Allied War Veterans Council (DAWVC) wants to ensure that the ultimate sacrifice made by the brave men and women of our armed forces in service to our country never gets put in the shadows.
The DAWVC, along with the City of Dearborn, will pay tribute to these fallen servicemen during the 88th Annual Memorial Day Parade at 10 a.m. on Monday, May 28 along Michigan Avenue in east Dearborn.
The DAWVC’s “Roll Call of Dearborn’s Fallen” (below) lists individual names of the 347 people from Dearborn who sacrificed their lives, emphasizing the significance of each and every life lost.
Each of the Dearborn fallen — one in World War I, 251 in World War II, 26 in the Korean War, and 69 in the Vietnam War — deserves to be remembered.
Before the 2011 Memorial Day Parade, an honor guard escorts a caisson holding the cremains of servicemen who never received a proper burial. (Photo Courtesy of the City of Dearborn.)
Roll Call of Dearborn’s Fallen
World War I
Blankertz, Walter
World War II
The War Memorial at Dearborn City Hall lists residents who died in service to our country during World War I, World War II, the Korean War and the Vietnam War. (Photo Courtesy of the City of Dearborn)
Alt, Robert M.; Anderson, Herbert C., Jr.; Antaillia, Gerard C.; Assenmacher, Alphonse N.;
Backalukas, George J.; Baumgartner, Walter B.; Bell, Amos B.; Berg, Ewald Johannes; Bersan, Daniel D.; Bielecki, Edward A.; Biestek, Barney W.; Bingham, Lloyd D., Jr.; Blackburn, Charles A.; Blavat, Donald A.; Bloom, Russell Lee; Blouin, Theodore J.; Bodroski, Zivo; Boni, Rocco; Bores, Leonard; and Breithaupt, and Herman Albert, Jr. Bryda, Emil Edward, Jr.; Bullis, Clay U.; Burry, Robert L.; Butkowski, Roman; Butterfield, Welbee Bradley; Bye, Roy F.;
Calnan, Padraig Joseph; Chaushoff, Alex T.; Christians, Roger William; Christie, Darwin Dale; Clemente, Jack A.; Colasante, Goffredo M.; Colwell, Carl Edward; Connell, Raymond Francis; Connolly, Henry J.; Corbin, Douglas R.; Crampton, Theodore E.; Curcuru, Nunzio John;
Dalziel, Richard Walter; and Daugirda, John. D’Elia, Pasquale; Demusiak, Walter; Dimitroff, John G.; Dixon, John W.; Dobry, Frank W.; Donovan, James Dennis; Dorman, Marlin P.; Drab, Stanley; Duff, James R.;
Earle, Edward; Eilers, Charles D.; Emerick, Donald H.; Esper, Marcus E.; Essenmacher, Donald E.; Evans, John Howard; Evans, Richard W.; Fagnon, Emil. A; Fargher, Harold H.; Farris, Douglas R.; and Faust, Jacob. Fenoglio, John P.; Filiak, Gabriel; Filipczak, Edwin S.; Finnegan, Henry H.; Fisher, Earl G.; Fladzinski, Frank E.; Fluckey, Helen E.; Fortier, Gene H.; Foust, Kenneth P.; Foust, Paul A.; Freckleton, Jack Logan; French, Robert L.; Fukalek, Warren L.; Gardner, Dale E.; Gary, Wilfred C.; Gelles, George; Genoa, Nicholas; Gero, Clyde; Gibson, Richard C.; and Gietka, Walter H. Giltinan, Stephen Vincent, Jr.; Godfrey, Robert Arthur; Goovers, George, Jr.; Graham, Jack C.; Graves, Ralph E., Jr.; Gray, Ian M.; Guynn, Willis H.;
Haag, Harold R.; Hagg, William D.; Hadwin, Benjamin T.; Handzlik, Edwin F.; Headley, Thomas L.; Hecht, Robert C.; Hegedus, Joseph S.; Helwig, Earl L.; Henderson, James Victor; Hessler, Norval Anthony; Hix, Robert J.; Hostetler, Ralph S.; and Huettman, Louis J. Jameson, Wendell Lee; Johnson, Robert A., Jr.; Johnson, William Nick; Jones, Raymond C.; Jones, Robert S.;
Kabara, Stanley P.; Keele, Charles C.; Keen, Henry L.; Kielb, Walter F.; Kirk, Robert L., Jr.; Kirkwood, Curtis A.; Klein, Archie Franklin; Klinger, Francis H.; Koebbe, Clair Emerson; Korte, Harold F.; Koshar, Cyril C.; Kovalcik, John A.; Kronberg, Lawrence E.; Krynen, William J., and Jr.; Kubinski, Leo J. Laird, James Edward; Leonard, William Henry; Letizio, Dominick, Jr.; Levagood, George E.; Lindgren, Melvin E.; Livermore, William R.; Loverix, Campbell; Lubaway, William J., Jr.; Lyerla, Burke;
Mackay, William R.; Macut, Steve S.; Maezes, Alex J.; Majchrzak, Eugene S.; Malaniak, Walter H.; Malish, Eugene Gene; Mancuso, Dominick J.; Marcyan, Edward J.; Mark, Anthony J.; Marks, Donald Marvin; and Martin, Harry R., Jr. Massetti, Marino; Matuszewski, Frank E.; Matosh, George L.; McDavid, Gerald W.; McDermott, Harry A.; Midworth, Arthur H.; Mieszczur, Edward Theodore; Mikulski, Karl; Miller, George J.; Miller, Harold Henry, Jr.; Moench, William Albert; Moore, John Carleton; Moore, John R.; Mueller, Norman R.; Muntean, Earl; Murphy, D. Morris;
Nagle, Finnbarr Alphonsus; Natzman, Norbert Joseph; Nawrocki, Leonard Clements; and Neisler, Richard A. Neuendorf, Arthur Lionel; Newell, Miles; Nolan, Lewis C.; Noppe, John Henry; Norman, Louis R.; Norwood, Harrison Keith; O’Leary, Herbert M.; Olszewski, Joseph, Jr.; Olsztyn, Edward John; Osipoff, Michael; Oz, Ernest C.;
Pacion, Frank Alexander; Painter, Alvin E.; Paisley, John W.; Panich, Nicholas; Passage, Donald G.; Patten, Richard T.; Peck, Kenneth C.; Peller, Patsy A.; and Platz, John Ernest Pokrywka, Leo W.; Ponder, Lester; Posler, Robert Joseph; Potter, John S.; Proffitt, Evan W.; Prokin, Samuel V.; Pulkkinen, Oiva L.; Pytel, Joseph E.; Rayca, Henry S.; Rayl, George Henry; Reede, Everett N.; Renner, August O., Jr.; Ross, Kenneth S.; Rotunda, Augustine; Ryckman, Nelson J.; Romanelli, Ernest, Jr.;
Said, Allie J.; Sangeorzan, Emil V.; Schudlo, Edward; and Shakar, Sammy M. Shortness, Gordon M.; Sienkaniec, Zigmund J.; Siers, Lawrence Ray; Simonds, Ford F.; Smith, Charles Joseph; Smith, Ozro J.; Soper, Arnold Everett; Sowden, Thomas C.; Staley, Glen M.; Stetson, Wesson A.; Stimach, Walter A.; Stoll, Edward F.; Stroud, Stanley William; Stuart, Frederick D.; Sullivan, Jack C.; Sutherland, James P., Jr.; Swantek, Robert Alois; Szabo, Paul Antonie, Jr.;
Teeple, Richard J.; Terezakis, Pete Timm, Henry R.; Tomala, Adolph A.; Tower, Byron Eugene; Tyler, John H., Jr.; Valentini, Silvio; Valleau, Harold E.; Vaughan, Charles Wesley; Voorhess, Charles R., Jr.;
Wadowski, Alexander, Jr.; Wallace, Dean W.; Walter, Charles Hugh; Waskewicz, Harry Joseph; Wilson, James Tweedale; Wilson, William H.; Williamson, Willard T.; Winkler, Richard S.; Winnie, Thomas A.; Wirick, Edward Francis; Wolfe, Robert C.; Woltz, Harold W.; Woods, Robert Morley, Jr.; Wright, Douglas Haig; Wroblewski, Richard E.; Wroblewski, Walter J., Jr.; Wurtz, Harold F., Jr.; Wykes, James J.;
Yonkin, Paul W.; Zander, Richard W.; Zatzer, Walter C.; Zawacki, Harry A.; and Zazian, Aram.
Korean War
Alexander, William H.; Ballentine, Howard E.; Biggs, Lester W.; Brex, John William; Brown, Damon K.; Burkeen, Billie Roy; Chrobak, Casimir M.; Dubas, Charles L.; Facchini, Alexander; Fox, John E.; Greene, David Clark; Johnson, Arthur E., Jr.; Johnson, Jack W.; Lapinski, John Frank; McEvoy, Bernard Frederick; Meyers, Glenn D.; Nozicka, Jerome C.; Painter, Lincoln R.; Peck, Neil F.; Plummer, Donald Keith; Spanberger, Robert R.; Strong, George Clarence; Summitt, Jerry M.; Szwajkowski, Robert W.; Wilcox, Kenneth E.; and Zalcmanis, Eriks V.
Vietnam War
Anderson, Richard M.l Angel, Tommie R.; Antol, David; Bird, Edwin B.; Bonnici, Robert J.; Borowski, Raymond J.; Brannon, David C.; Brock, James B.; Brown, David A.; Clark, Jerry W.; Cochrane, John F.;
Daily, Thomas B.; Davis, James L.; Dillinder, Randy E.; Dyer, Jay Cee; Dziengowski, Michael J.; Elwart, Paul D.; Emmons, Gerald E.; Fleming, James M.; and Foxworth, Roger C.; Fugett, Henry J.;
Gambotto, Larry L.; Gandolfo, Philip N.; Gentinne, Thomas H.; Germany, Franklyn W.; Hanselman, Charles L.; Harla, Rodney Kent; Hath, James S.; Hintz, James R.; Hosnedle, Alan R.; Huard, James L.; Jackymack, Rudolph S.;
Kaartunen, Alan C.; Karr, Charles L.; Kowitz, David R.; Logan, Bradley J.;
McCann, Cecil D.; McCormick, Louis J.; McIlroy, Douglas S.; and McKenna, Robert C.; Morrow, James F.; Mueller, Ralph T.; Naughton, Thomas D., Jr.; Navarre, John A.J.; Niezgoda, Michael A.; Nozewski, Robert; Oziengowski, Michael J.;
Paton, Richard A.; Patterson, James B.; Patterson, Michael R.; Pearce, William C., IV; Pennell, Wilbert G.; Pietrzyk, Mark E.; Reynolds, Bruce M.; Robertson, Mark; Rowley, Donald A.;
Schmaltz, William A., III; Siegwald, George C., II; Smith, David L.; Smith, Earl; Snell, Stuart G.; Stancroff, Dennis C.; Stubblefield, James E.; Terwilliger, David W.; Tinker, Gary L.; Trescott, Charles R.; Troyan, Michael J., Jr.; Wells, John C.; and Yokom, Robert W., Jr.