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Lee E. Wardlow
June 3, 1925 - June 29, 2015
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Sioux Falls, SD ~ Lee Edson Wardlow, age 90, died on Monday June 29, 2015 at Sanford USD Medical Center in Sioux Falls.
Funeral services will be held at 10:30 AM on Wednesday, July 1, 2015 at George Boom Funeral Home in Sioux Falls with burial with military honors to follow at Hills of Rest Memorial Park in Sioux Falls. There will be an open visitation for friends and family on Tuesday from 5 to 7 PM at the funeral home. Please consider a memorial donation to the Sioux Falls Veterans of Foreign Wars.
The following obituary was written by Lee himself.
I was born June 3, 1925, in a farm home in southwestern Davis County, Iowa. I spent my younger years on the farm and attended a one-room country school. I am the son of William Paul and Abigail (Goode) Wardlow and the fifth of ten children (the oldest a step-sister). In 1933 my father took employment with the Davis County State Highway Commission and the family moved to Bloomfield, IA, where I finished my schooling in the Bloomfield Public Schools.
As a young person growing up in the 30's, I kept busy doing odd jobs, such as carrying newspapers, cleaning furnaces, doing snow shoveling, etc. During the summer, I worked as a farmhand to earn money to help buy my school clothes and supplies. I participated in sports in school, lettering in high school football. As a young man, I learned to play guitar and later joined a group to play for pie suppers and square dances.
In July of 1943, at the age of 18, I was drafted into the Army and was recruited into the Army Air Force. I took my basic training and A & E schooling at Amarillo Air Force Base in Amarillo, Texas. In April of 1944, I was assigned overseas duty and left the states for the South Pacific on a converted Italian passenger ship. It was too fast for a regular convoy, so the ship traveled alone to New Guinea, taking 21 days. At Lea, New Guinea, I was assigned to a heavy bomber group with the 5th Air Force, the 90th Bomber Group…later to be known as the famous "Jolly Rogers." I spent the first few months as an airplane mechanic on B-24 bombers and was later assigned as a flight line inspector, which I did until the end of the war. I did duty in New Guinea, Wake Island, Mindoro and Luzon in the Philippines and I E Shima, just off Okinawa, where I was stationed as the war ended. It was there I got to see the Japanese surrender group that landed there to board a US plane to fly onto the Philippines to sign the surrender agreements.
After being discharged as a Staff Sergeant, I worked for Millers Produce in Bloomfield, IA for several years. An active sportsman, I loved to hunt and fish. I belonged to the Southeastern Iowa Coon Hunters Association and was elected president of the club in 1957. In May of 1957, I moved my family to Sioux Falls, SD where I was employed at Jay-Shon Chevrolet as a used car salesman and worked for the Chevrolet dealerships for 25 years, many of those as the used car sales manager. In 1982, I retired and purchased a small acreage near Burbank, SD where my wife and I lived for 22 years, until ill health caused a move back to Sioux Falls in 2006.
I am a lifetime member of VFW Post 626 and a long-time member of American Legion Post 15 in Sioux Falls.
Lee E. Wardlow
June 3, 1925 - June 29, 2015
Life Legacy
Sioux Falls, SD ~ Lee Edson Wardlow, age 90, died on Monday June 29, 2015 at Sanford USD Medical Center in Sioux Falls.
Funeral services will be held at 10:30 AM on Wednesday, July 1, 2015 at George Boom Funeral Home in Sioux Falls with burial with military honors to follow at Hills of Rest Memorial Park in Sioux Falls. There will be an open visitation for friends and family on Tuesday from 5 to 7 PM at the funeral home. Please consider a memorial donation to the Sioux Falls Veterans of Foreign Wars.
The following obituary was written by Lee himself.
I was born June 3, 1925, in a farm home in southwestern Davis County, Iowa. I spent my younger years on the farm and attended a one-room country school. I am the son of William Paul and Abigail (Goode) Wardlow and the fifth of ten children (the oldest a step-sister). In 1933 my father took employment with the Davis County State Highway Commission and the family moved to Bloomfield, IA, where I finished my schooling in the Bloomfield Public Schools.
As a young person growing up in the 30's, I kept busy doing odd jobs, such as carrying newspapers, cleaning furnaces, doing snow shoveling, etc. During the summer, I worked as a farmhand to earn money to help buy my school clothes and supplies. I participated in sports in school, lettering in high school football. As a young man, I learned to play guitar and later joined a group to play for pie suppers and square dances.
In July of 1943, at the age of 18, I was drafted into the Army and was recruited into the Army Air Force. I took my basic training and A & E schooling at Amarillo Air Force Base in Amarillo, Texas. In April of 1944, I was assigned overseas duty and left the states for the South Pacific on a converted Italian passenger ship. It was too fast for a regular convoy, so the ship traveled alone to New Guinea, taking 21 days. At Lea, New Guinea, I was assigned to a heavy bomber group with the 5th Air Force, the 90th Bomber Group…later to be known as the famous "Jolly Rogers." I spent the first few months as an airplane mechanic on B-24 bombers and was later assigned as a flight line inspector, which I did until the end of the war. I did duty in New Guinea, Wake Island, Mindoro and Luzon in the Philippines and I E Shima, just off Okinawa, where I was stationed as the war ended. It was there I got to see the Japanese surrender group that landed there to board a US plane to fly onto the Philippines to sign the surrender agreements.
After being discharged as a Staff Sergeant, I worked for Millers Produce in Bloomfield, IA for several years. An active sportsman, I loved to hunt and fish. I belonged to the Southeastern Iowa Coon Hunters Association and was elected president of the club in 1957. In May of 1957, I moved my family to Sioux Falls, SD where I was employed at Jay-Shon Chevrolet as a used car salesman and worked for the Chevrolet dealerships for 25 years, many of those as the used car sales manager. In 1982, I retired and purchased a small acreage near Burbank, SD where my wife and I lived for 22 years, until ill health caused a move back to Sioux Falls in 2006.
I am a lifetime member of VFW Post 626 and a long-time member of American Legion Post 15 in Sioux Falls.
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Lee E. Wardlow
June 3, 1925 - June 29, 2015
Life Legacy
Sioux Falls, SD ~ Lee Edson Wardlow, age 90, died on Monday June 29, 2015 at Sanford USD Medical Center in Sioux Falls.
Funeral services will be held at 10:30 AM on Wednesday, July 1, 2015 at George Boom Funeral Home in Sioux Falls with burial with military honors to follow at Hills of Rest Memorial Park in Sioux Falls. There will be an open visitation for friends and family on Tuesday from 5 to 7 PM at the funeral home. Please consider a memorial donation to the Sioux Falls Veterans of Foreign Wars.
The following obituary was written by Lee himself.
I was born June 3, 1925, in a farm home in southwestern Davis County, Iowa. I spent my younger years on the farm and attended a one-room country school. I am the son of William Paul and Abigail (Goode) Wardlow and the fifth of ten children (the oldest a step-sister). In 1933 my father took employment with the Davis County State Highway Commission and the family moved to Bloomfield, IA, where I finished my schooling in the Bloomfield Public Schools.
As a young person growing up in the 30's, I kept busy doing odd jobs, such as carrying newspapers, cleaning furnaces, doing snow shoveling, etc. During the summer, I worked as a farmhand to earn money to help buy my school clothes and supplies. I participated in sports in school, lettering in high school football. As a young man, I learned to play guitar and later joined a group to play for pie suppers and square dances.
In July of 1943, at the age of 18, I was drafted into the Army and was recruited into the Army Air Force. I took my basic training and A & E schooling at Amarillo Air Force Base in Amarillo, Texas. In April of 1944, I was assigned overseas duty and left the states for the South Pacific on a converted Italian passenger ship. It was too fast for a regular convoy, so the ship traveled alone to New Guinea, taking 21 days. At Lea, New Guinea, I was assigned to a heavy bomber group with the 5th Air Force, the 90th Bomber Group…later to be known as the famous "Jolly Rogers." I spent the first few months as an airplane mechanic on B-24 bombers and was later assigned as a flight line inspector, which I did until the end of the war. I did duty in New Guinea, Wake Island, Mindoro and Luzon in the Philippines and I E Shima, just off Okinawa, where I was stationed as the war ended. It was there I got to see the Japanese surrender group that landed there to board a US plane to fly onto the Philippines to sign the surrender agreements.
After being discharged as a Staff Sergeant, I worked for Millers Produce in Bloomfield, IA for several years. An active sportsman, I loved to hunt and fish. I belonged to the Southeastern Iowa Coon Hunters Association and was elected president of the club in 1957. In May of 1957, I moved my family to Sioux Falls, SD where I was employed at Jay-Shon Chevrolet as a used car salesman and worked for the Chevrolet dealerships for 25 years, many of those as the used car sales manager. In 1982, I retired and purchased a small acreage near Burbank, SD where my wife and I lived for 22 years, until ill health caused a move back to Sioux Falls in 2006.
I am a lifetime member of VFW Post 626 and a long-time member of American Legion Post 15 in Sioux Falls.
Lee E. Wardlow
June 3, 1925 - June 29, 2015
Life Legacy
Sioux Falls, SD ~ Lee Edson Wardlow, age 90, died on Monday June 29, 2015 at Sanford USD Medical Center in Sioux Falls.
Funeral services will be held at 10:30 AM on Wednesday, July 1, 2015 at George Boom Funeral Home in Sioux Falls with burial with military honors to follow at Hills of Rest Memorial Park in Sioux Falls. There will be an open visitation for friends and family on Tuesday from 5 to 7 PM at the funeral home. Please consider a memorial donation to the Sioux Falls Veterans of Foreign Wars.
The following obituary was written by Lee himself.
I was born June 3, 1925, in a farm home in southwestern Davis County, Iowa. I spent my younger years on the farm and attended a one-room country school. I am the son of William Paul and Abigail (Goode) Wardlow and the fifth of ten children (the oldest a step-sister). In 1933 my father took employment with the Davis County State Highway Commission and the family moved to Bloomfield, IA, where I finished my schooling in the Bloomfield Public Schools.
As a young person growing up in the 30's, I kept busy doing odd jobs, such as carrying newspapers, cleaning furnaces, doing snow shoveling, etc. During the summer, I worked as a farmhand to earn money to help buy my school clothes and supplies. I participated in sports in school, lettering in high school football. As a young man, I learned to play guitar and later joined a group to play for pie suppers and square dances.
In July of 1943, at the age of 18, I was drafted into the Army and was recruited into the Army Air Force. I took my basic training and A & E schooling at Amarillo Air Force Base in Amarillo, Texas. In April of 1944, I was assigned overseas duty and left the states for the South Pacific on a converted Italian passenger ship. It was too fast for a regular convoy, so the ship traveled alone to New Guinea, taking 21 days. At Lea, New Guinea, I was assigned to a heavy bomber group with the 5th Air Force, the 90th Bomber Group…later to be known as the famous "Jolly Rogers." I spent the first few months as an airplane mechanic on B-24 bombers and was later assigned as a flight line inspector, which I did until the end of the war. I did duty in New Guinea, Wake Island, Mindoro and Luzon in the Philippines and I E Shima, just off Okinawa, where I was stationed as the war ended. It was there I got to see the Japanese surrender group that landed there to board a US plane to fly onto the Philippines to sign the surrender agreements.
After being discharged as a Staff Sergeant, I worked for Millers Produce in Bloomfield, IA for several years. An active sportsman, I loved to hunt and fish. I belonged to the Southeastern Iowa Coon Hunters Association and was elected president of the club in 1957. In May of 1957, I moved my family to Sioux Falls, SD where I was employed at Jay-Shon Chevrolet as a used car salesman and worked for the Chevrolet dealerships for 25 years, many of those as the used car sales manager. In 1982, I retired and purchased a small acreage near Burbank, SD where my wife and I lived for 22 years, until ill health caused a move back to Sioux Falls in 2006.
I am a lifetime member of VFW Post 626 and a long-time member of American Legion Post 15 in Sioux Falls.
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