Harland was the son of Gerald and Esther Magoun Tracy. He graduated from Dixfield High School and continued his education at the Massachusetts Radio School, where he studied to become a radio and television technician.
Mr. Tracy, a member of the U.S. Army/Air Force, was a tower controller and direction-finder with the 496th Fighter Training Unit in Goxhill, England, and served in the European theater from October 1940 to October 1945.
In 1942, he married Rita Anna Durant (1918-1987) in Holyoke, Mass. For several years, Mr. Tracy was employed by Telewire Corp. in Holyoke. He returned to Maine in 1960 and was employed as a saw engineer at Stowell-McGreagor in his hometown of Dixfield. He later was employed by R. Hoe and Co. Inc., of Birmingham, Ala. as a salesman.
In 1973, Mr. Tracy married Margaret Waldorf Stevens at Dixfield. For the last two years, they had made their home on Eastern Avenue in Wilton.
Survivors include his wife of Wilton; his mother Esther Searles of Wilton; a son, Richard G. of Auburn; a daughter, Geraldine Peach of North Chili, NY, and five grandchildren
He was predeceased by a brother, Malcolm C. Tracy and a great-granddaughter, Jennifer Tracy.
[The Lewiston Daily Sun]
S SGT US ARMY AIR CORPS WORLD WAR II
Mr. Tracy, a member of the U.S. Army/Air Force, was a tower controller and direction-finder with the 496th Fighter Training Unit in Goxhill, England, and served in the European theater from October 1940 to October 1945.
In 1942, he married Rita Anna Durant (1918-1987) in Holyoke, Mass. For several years, Mr. Tracy was employed by Telewire Corp. in Holyoke. He returned to Maine in 1960 and was employed as a saw engineer at Stowell-McGreagor in his hometown of Dixfield. He later was employed by R. Hoe and Co. Inc., of Birmingham, Ala. as a salesman.
In 1973, Mr. Tracy married Margaret Waldorf Stevens at Dixfield. For the last two years, they had made their home on Eastern Avenue in Wilton.
Survivors include his wife of Wilton; his mother Esther Searles of Wilton; a son, Richard G. of Auburn; a daughter, Geraldine Peach of North Chili, NY, and five grandchildren
He was predeceased by a brother, Malcolm C. Tracy and a great-granddaughter, Jennifer Tracy.
[The Lewiston Daily Sun]
S SGT US ARMY AIR CORPS WORLD WAR II
Harland was the son of Gerald and Esther Magoun Tracy. He graduated from Dixfield High School and continued his education at the Massachusetts Radio School, where he studied to become a radio and television technician.
Mr. Tracy, a member of the U.S. Army/Air Force, was a tower controller and direction-finder with the 496th Fighter Training Unit in Goxhill, England, and served in the European theater from October 1940 to October 1945.
In 1942, he married Rita Anna Durant (1918-1987) in Holyoke, Mass. For several years, Mr. Tracy was employed by Telewire Corp. in Holyoke. He returned to Maine in 1960 and was employed as a saw engineer at Stowell-McGreagor in his hometown of Dixfield. He later was employed by R. Hoe and Co. Inc., of Birmingham, Ala. as a salesman.
In 1973, Mr. Tracy married Margaret Waldorf Stevens at Dixfield. For the last two years, they had made their home on Eastern Avenue in Wilton.
Survivors include his wife of Wilton; his mother Esther Searles of Wilton; a son, Richard G. of Auburn; a daughter, Geraldine Peach of North Chili, NY, and five grandchildren
He was predeceased by a brother, Malcolm C. Tracy and a great-granddaughter, Jennifer Tracy.
[The Lewiston Daily Sun]
S SGT US ARMY AIR CORPS WORLD WAR II
Mr. Tracy, a member of the U.S. Army/Air Force, was a tower controller and direction-finder with the 496th Fighter Training Unit in Goxhill, England, and served in the European theater from October 1940 to October 1945.
In 1942, he married Rita Anna Durant (1918-1987) in Holyoke, Mass. For several years, Mr. Tracy was employed by Telewire Corp. in Holyoke. He returned to Maine in 1960 and was employed as a saw engineer at Stowell-McGreagor in his hometown of Dixfield. He later was employed by R. Hoe and Co. Inc., of Birmingham, Ala. as a salesman.
In 1973, Mr. Tracy married Margaret Waldorf Stevens at Dixfield. For the last two years, they had made their home on Eastern Avenue in Wilton.
Survivors include his wife of Wilton; his mother Esther Searles of Wilton; a son, Richard G. of Auburn; a daughter, Geraldine Peach of North Chili, NY, and five grandchildren
He was predeceased by a brother, Malcolm C. Tracy and a great-granddaughter, Jennifer Tracy.
[The Lewiston Daily Sun]
S SGT US ARMY AIR CORPS WORLD WAR II
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