Mr. and Mrs. Funkhouser have reason to be proud of their sons, for both volunteered soon after the outbreak of war and both have been commissioned lieutenants. Albert applied for the first officers' training camp; passed but was not called, so be enlisted as a motor truck chauffeur. He was admitted to the officers' training camp at Camp Bowie, Tex. Both brothers had university and legal education. Albert attended Campbell and Chandler grade schools, Evansville High School, De Pauw University. He was a member of Phi Delta Theta, Indiana Zeta Chapter, Bayard Park M. E. Church, Evansville Country Club, Columbia Club, Indianapolis, Evansville Press Club. Admitted to Vanderburgh County Bar. Nominated for representative Indiana General Assembly. Applied for admission to Signal Corps, Aviation School, and to first Officers' Training Camp, Fort Harrison. Volunteered as Sergeant Chauffeur, Quartermasters Corps. Honorably discharged to accept commission, and was commissioned as 2nd Lieutenant in National Army. Embarked at Camp Mills, for France, on U.S.S. George Washington. Arrived at Brest, France. His Division was brigaded with the Fourth French Army, and was engaged in the great Champagne advance. Lt. Funkhouser was wounded in the right knee and in the right hand but continued in action. He was awarded the Croix de Guerre by the French Republic, for gallantry. In 1919, he embarked in France, in charge of Casual Company 875 and landed at Newport News, Virginia, June 9,1919, ill of lobar pneumonia, and died, June 15, 1919 at Embarkation Hospital, Camp Stewart, from pneumonia and the effects of poisonous gas inhaled on the battlefield. He was buried with full military honors. His brother, Paul Funkhouser was killed in action Claire Chesnes woods, near Cunel, France, Oct. 20, 1918, sisters, Alta Funkhouser and Ruth Funkhouser. Company F, 144 Infantry, 36th Division