This Pennsylvania WWII Veterans Bonus application was filed by John on 1 April 1950.

He was credited with 8 months of domestic duty and 13 months of foreign service and was awarded a bonus of $275.
 

   John Kury, 61, of 115 S. Bear Creek Road, Ashville, died Thursday in Asheville VA Medical Center.
   A native of Scranton, Pa., and a  resident of Buncombe county for the past 30 years, he was a son of the late Michael and Tessie Senation Kury,  For 25 years he was a purchasing agent for Freck Radio and supply Co. and for 10 years, an electronics instructor for A-B Tech.
   Kury was an Army veteran of World War II and a member of Mount Herman Masonic Lodge No. 118 and Sardis United Methodist Church, where he was also an adult Sunday school teacher, former lay leader, former Sunday school superintendant and a member of the Methodist Men.
   Surviving are his wife, Marjorie Marie Davis Kury; two daughters, Donna Maxwell of Syracuse, Utah, and Kathy Watts of Misenheimer; a sister, Ann Pashchuk of Nicholson, Pa.; three brothers, Michael Kury of Philadelphia, and Steven and Eugene Kury, of Scranton; and three grandchildren.
      Services will be at 11 a.m. Saturday in Sardis United Methodist Church.  The Rev. Alan Rice will officiate.  Burial will be in Forest Lawn Cemetery.
   The family will receive friends from 7 to 8:30 p.m., Friday at Anders-Rice Funeral Home.  The body will be placed in the church 30 minutes prior to services.

Grave marker for John Kury in Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Candler (Buncombe county), North Carolina.

John enlisted in the Army at New Cumberland, PA on 29 May 1944.

He was shipped to the ETO on 31 January 1945.

On 22 October 1945, Pfc Kury was transferred from the 101st Airborne Division to Hq 2nd, 508th PIR. He returned to the U.S. on 2 March 1946 and was discharged at Fort Dix, NJ on 7 June 1946.