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Milton Gail Tinney

Posted 2016-04-29 by Judy Wight Branson
Prescott Evening Courier, Prescott, Arizona
Friday, February 18, 1949, p. 6

Milton Gayle Tinney

Arrange Service for Gale Tinney

Catholic services will be conducted in the Lester Ruffner Funeral Home at 2:30 o'clock Monday afternoon for Pfc. Milton Gale Tinney, who died July 1, 1944 as the result of wounds received in the Dutch New Guineas on June 19, 1944. Father Cecere will conduct the services, which will be followed by burial in the Mountain View Cemetery.

Pall bearers will be members of his company: Hubert Stratton, James Zanot, Charles Smith, Bill Snyder, Geno Natalene, Frank Jennings.

Pfc. Gale Tinney left Prescott in 1939 with the National Guard and was with that group in the Canal Zone and Australia.

He is survived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Tinney; a brother, Edward and two sisters, Geraldine and Evelyn.

(Note the 5 years that it took to get his body back from overseas.)

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