Married Arline Reeva Beaty Niles, March 3, 1946, Berrian Co., Michigan, USA
Captured in Corregidor during World War II. He was a prisoner of war for three years.
From Contributor ShaneO:
While a POW he was being transported to Japan when the ship he was on was attacked and sunk by American planes on December 15, 1944. He was put on another transport, the Enoura Maru, which was sunk at Takao, Formosa on January 9. 1945. He finally reached Japan on the Brazil Maru. He was transferred to Mukden, Manchuris, and was liberated from the POW camp at the end of the war.
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Abilene Reporter News
August 3, 1946
FUNERAL TODAY FOR LT. BALFANZ
Military rites for Lt. A. W. (Dub) Balfantz, 28, prisoner of the Japanese more than three years who was killed in an army B-25 bomber crash in Mississippi, Tuesday, will be held at 4 p.m. today at the First Baptist church. Maj. M. A. Lanning, chaplain at the Enid, Okla. army air base, will officiate.
As honor guard from Goodfellow field in San Angelo is in participate in the services. Burial will be under direction of Laughter North funeral home in Cedar Hill cemetery.
Lt. J. B. Harrellson, who was a fellow prisoner of war with Balfanz, was accompanying the body from Durant, Miss., to Abilene and was expected to arrive here early today.
Son of Mrs. Lee Balfanz, 766 Peach, Lieutenant Balfanz was born Oct. 4, 1917, at Temple. He had lived in Abilene since 1923, having graduated from Abilene high school where he was a member of the Eagle football squad in 1932 and 1933.
Lieutenant Balfanz was serving with army air forces near Manila when the war broke out in the Pacific. He was taken prisoner at the fall of Corregidor in 1942 and was held by the Japanese until Aug. 20, 1945. He reported back to active duty in the army July 16 of this year, and had been taking pilot training at the Enid army air base.
Survivors are his widow, Mrs. Arlene Beaty Balfanz; his mother, three sister, Mrs. A. L. Richardson; Lee Ellen and Beverly Balfanz, all of Abilene; and one brother, Ralph of Clovis, N.M.
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Honorary pallbearers will be: Earl Jones, Wayland Lewis, Forrest McPherson, Gervis Galbraith, J. D. Perry, Jr., John Brookshire, Eho Howell, Ralph Hooks, Toby Shackelford, Walton Presley, Frank Cogdell, Reuben Stean, John Mingus, Cecil Barrow, George Ingle, J. C. Pennington, William Couch, James Couch, G. C. McDonald, all of Abilene; Lt. Robert Lee Michie, Fort Worth AAF; Powell Shytles, Stamford: Dr. Bud Dryden Austin; Dr. J. M. Hooks, Dallas; Lt. Lloyd Guy, Brooke Medical Center, San Antonio; Jack Blackmon, Artesia, N.M.; Major Charles Brown, San Antonio; James Harold Stoew, Sweetwater; Lt. Harrellson, M-Sgt. Gus Katrones, Port Chicago, Calif; Lee E Kizer, Texarkana, Ark., Lt. J. R. Rich, Corpus Christi; and Bob Jordan, Brookline, Mass.
Captured in Corregidor during World War II. He was a prisoner of war for three years.
From Contributor ShaneO:
While a POW he was being transported to Japan when the ship he was on was attacked and sunk by American planes on December 15, 1944. He was put on another transport, the Enoura Maru, which was sunk at Takao, Formosa on January 9. 1945. He finally reached Japan on the Brazil Maru. He was transferred to Mukden, Manchuris, and was liberated from the POW camp at the end of the war.
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Abilene Reporter News
August 3, 1946
FUNERAL TODAY FOR LT. BALFANZ
Military rites for Lt. A. W. (Dub) Balfantz, 28, prisoner of the Japanese more than three years who was killed in an army B-25 bomber crash in Mississippi, Tuesday, will be held at 4 p.m. today at the First Baptist church. Maj. M. A. Lanning, chaplain at the Enid, Okla. army air base, will officiate.
As honor guard from Goodfellow field in San Angelo is in participate in the services. Burial will be under direction of Laughter North funeral home in Cedar Hill cemetery.
Lt. J. B. Harrellson, who was a fellow prisoner of war with Balfanz, was accompanying the body from Durant, Miss., to Abilene and was expected to arrive here early today.
Son of Mrs. Lee Balfanz, 766 Peach, Lieutenant Balfanz was born Oct. 4, 1917, at Temple. He had lived in Abilene since 1923, having graduated from Abilene high school where he was a member of the Eagle football squad in 1932 and 1933.
Lieutenant Balfanz was serving with army air forces near Manila when the war broke out in the Pacific. He was taken prisoner at the fall of Corregidor in 1942 and was held by the Japanese until Aug. 20, 1945. He reported back to active duty in the army July 16 of this year, and had been taking pilot training at the Enid army air base.
Survivors are his widow, Mrs. Arlene Beaty Balfanz; his mother, three sister, Mrs. A. L. Richardson; Lee Ellen and Beverly Balfanz, all of Abilene; and one brother, Ralph of Clovis, N.M.
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Honorary pallbearers will be: Earl Jones, Wayland Lewis, Forrest McPherson, Gervis Galbraith, J. D. Perry, Jr., John Brookshire, Eho Howell, Ralph Hooks, Toby Shackelford, Walton Presley, Frank Cogdell, Reuben Stean, John Mingus, Cecil Barrow, George Ingle, J. C. Pennington, William Couch, James Couch, G. C. McDonald, all of Abilene; Lt. Robert Lee Michie, Fort Worth AAF; Powell Shytles, Stamford: Dr. Bud Dryden Austin; Dr. J. M. Hooks, Dallas; Lt. Lloyd Guy, Brooke Medical Center, San Antonio; Jack Blackmon, Artesia, N.M.; Major Charles Brown, San Antonio; James Harold Stoew, Sweetwater; Lt. Harrellson, M-Sgt. Gus Katrones, Port Chicago, Calif; Lee E Kizer, Texarkana, Ark., Lt. J. R. Rich, Corpus Christi; and Bob Jordan, Brookline, Mass.
Married Arline Reeva Beaty Niles, March 3, 1946, Berrian Co., Michigan, USA
Captured in Corregidor during World War II. He was a prisoner of war for three years.
From Contributor ShaneO:
While a POW he was being transported to Japan when the ship he was on was attacked and sunk by American planes on December 15, 1944. He was put on another transport, the Enoura Maru, which was sunk at Takao, Formosa on January 9. 1945. He finally reached Japan on the Brazil Maru. He was transferred to Mukden, Manchuris, and was liberated from the POW camp at the end of the war.
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Abilene Reporter News
August 3, 1946
FUNERAL TODAY FOR LT. BALFANZ
Military rites for Lt. A. W. (Dub) Balfantz, 28, prisoner of the Japanese more than three years who was killed in an army B-25 bomber crash in Mississippi, Tuesday, will be held at 4 p.m. today at the First Baptist church. Maj. M. A. Lanning, chaplain at the Enid, Okla. army air base, will officiate.
As honor guard from Goodfellow field in San Angelo is in participate in the services. Burial will be under direction of Laughter North funeral home in Cedar Hill cemetery.
Lt. J. B. Harrellson, who was a fellow prisoner of war with Balfanz, was accompanying the body from Durant, Miss., to Abilene and was expected to arrive here early today.
Son of Mrs. Lee Balfanz, 766 Peach, Lieutenant Balfanz was born Oct. 4, 1917, at Temple. He had lived in Abilene since 1923, having graduated from Abilene high school where he was a member of the Eagle football squad in 1932 and 1933.
Lieutenant Balfanz was serving with army air forces near Manila when the war broke out in the Pacific. He was taken prisoner at the fall of Corregidor in 1942 and was held by the Japanese until Aug. 20, 1945. He reported back to active duty in the army July 16 of this year, and had been taking pilot training at the Enid army air base.
Survivors are his widow, Mrs. Arlene Beaty Balfanz; his mother, three sister, Mrs. A. L. Richardson; Lee Ellen and Beverly Balfanz, all of Abilene; and one brother, Ralph of Clovis, N.M.
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Honorary pallbearers will be: Earl Jones, Wayland Lewis, Forrest McPherson, Gervis Galbraith, J. D. Perry, Jr., John Brookshire, Eho Howell, Ralph Hooks, Toby Shackelford, Walton Presley, Frank Cogdell, Reuben Stean, John Mingus, Cecil Barrow, George Ingle, J. C. Pennington, William Couch, James Couch, G. C. McDonald, all of Abilene; Lt. Robert Lee Michie, Fort Worth AAF; Powell Shytles, Stamford: Dr. Bud Dryden Austin; Dr. J. M. Hooks, Dallas; Lt. Lloyd Guy, Brooke Medical Center, San Antonio; Jack Blackmon, Artesia, N.M.; Major Charles Brown, San Antonio; James Harold Stoew, Sweetwater; Lt. Harrellson, M-Sgt. Gus Katrones, Port Chicago, Calif; Lee E Kizer, Texarkana, Ark., Lt. J. R. Rich, Corpus Christi; and Bob Jordan, Brookline, Mass.
Captured in Corregidor during World War II. He was a prisoner of war for three years.
From Contributor ShaneO:
While a POW he was being transported to Japan when the ship he was on was attacked and sunk by American planes on December 15, 1944. He was put on another transport, the Enoura Maru, which was sunk at Takao, Formosa on January 9. 1945. He finally reached Japan on the Brazil Maru. He was transferred to Mukden, Manchuris, and was liberated from the POW camp at the end of the war.
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Abilene Reporter News
August 3, 1946
FUNERAL TODAY FOR LT. BALFANZ
Military rites for Lt. A. W. (Dub) Balfantz, 28, prisoner of the Japanese more than three years who was killed in an army B-25 bomber crash in Mississippi, Tuesday, will be held at 4 p.m. today at the First Baptist church. Maj. M. A. Lanning, chaplain at the Enid, Okla. army air base, will officiate.
As honor guard from Goodfellow field in San Angelo is in participate in the services. Burial will be under direction of Laughter North funeral home in Cedar Hill cemetery.
Lt. J. B. Harrellson, who was a fellow prisoner of war with Balfanz, was accompanying the body from Durant, Miss., to Abilene and was expected to arrive here early today.
Son of Mrs. Lee Balfanz, 766 Peach, Lieutenant Balfanz was born Oct. 4, 1917, at Temple. He had lived in Abilene since 1923, having graduated from Abilene high school where he was a member of the Eagle football squad in 1932 and 1933.
Lieutenant Balfanz was serving with army air forces near Manila when the war broke out in the Pacific. He was taken prisoner at the fall of Corregidor in 1942 and was held by the Japanese until Aug. 20, 1945. He reported back to active duty in the army July 16 of this year, and had been taking pilot training at the Enid army air base.
Survivors are his widow, Mrs. Arlene Beaty Balfanz; his mother, three sister, Mrs. A. L. Richardson; Lee Ellen and Beverly Balfanz, all of Abilene; and one brother, Ralph of Clovis, N.M.
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Honorary pallbearers will be: Earl Jones, Wayland Lewis, Forrest McPherson, Gervis Galbraith, J. D. Perry, Jr., John Brookshire, Eho Howell, Ralph Hooks, Toby Shackelford, Walton Presley, Frank Cogdell, Reuben Stean, John Mingus, Cecil Barrow, George Ingle, J. C. Pennington, William Couch, James Couch, G. C. McDonald, all of Abilene; Lt. Robert Lee Michie, Fort Worth AAF; Powell Shytles, Stamford: Dr. Bud Dryden Austin; Dr. J. M. Hooks, Dallas; Lt. Lloyd Guy, Brooke Medical Center, San Antonio; Jack Blackmon, Artesia, N.M.; Major Charles Brown, San Antonio; James Harold Stoew, Sweetwater; Lt. Harrellson, M-Sgt. Gus Katrones, Port Chicago, Calif; Lee E Kizer, Texarkana, Ark., Lt. J. R. Rich, Corpus Christi; and Bob Jordan, Brookline, Mass.
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