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WARREN R. ROACH (1)
Warren R. Roach

   UNION CITY --- Warren R. Roach, 69, 15 Cherokee Street, Union Lake, died Saturday, Nov. 10, 1990, in Borgess  Medical Center, Kalamazoo, where he had been a patient since Nov. 8.
   He was born in Branch Count and came to Battle Creek in 1948 from LaPorte, Ind.  He moved to Union Lake in 1973.
   He served in the Army's 508th Parachute infantry Regiment of the 82nd Airborne Division.  He was captured by the German Army on D-Day, 18 hours after  the beginning of the Allied invasion.  He was freed by the Soviets at the Oder River on Jan. 31, 1945, and was returned to the Allied forces in March 1945.  He was one of the first American prisoners of war to be returned to the states n the ship Mariposa.
   He worked as an auto-body painter at the Henry T. Owens Studebaker, Cushman-Brown Oldsmobile, and  Horner-Coppin Chrysler-Plymouth

agencies.  He was then employed as an industrial paint salesman by Sherwin Williams Paint Co. and Niles Chemical Co.  He retired in 1983 as superintendent of Vincent's Painting Services, Tekonsha.
   He was a member of the Coldwater United Methodist Church, American Ex-prisoners of War, and 508th parachute Infantry Regiment Association and was former chaplain of the Athens Post 5319, Veterans of Foreign Wars.
   Surviving is his wife, the former Beverly J. Hogue; sons Robert Roach of Battle Creek and Douglas Roach of Lexington, Ky.; and three grandchildren..
   Services will be at 10 .a.m. Tuesday in Fort Custer National Cemetery, Battle Creek.  Memorial donations may go to American Heart Association.  Arrangements are by Shaw-Estes Funeral Home, Battle Creek.

[Battle Creek Enquirer (Battle Creek, MI,·12 November 1990, Mon, Other Editions, Page 2]


[courtesy of "Sharon W"]

Grave marker for Warren R. Roach in Plot 11, Site 2234 of the Fort Custer National Cemetery, Augusta (Kalamazoo county), Michigan.

Warren enlisted in the Army at Kalamazoo, MI on 17 August 1942.

On 15 March 1943 Pvt Roach was assigned to Company "(I", 508th PIR.

Pvt Roach was promoted from Private to T4 on 18 November 1943.

T4 Roach was captured in Normandy on 6 June 1944 and was liberated from Stalag 4B when the war ended.

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