Carl E. ‘Lucky' Senior, 87
WWII Army veteran and former POW

  Funeral services for Carl E. "Lucky" Senior, 87, of Sellersburg, will be at 10 a.m. Friday, July 3, at Kraft Funeral Service, Charlestown Road Chapel, New Albany, with burial in Kraft-Graceland Memorial Park. He died Wednesday, July 1, 2009, at his residence in Sellersburg.
   He was an Army veteran with the 101st Airborne. During World War II and was a POW in Germany. He retired from both the United States Army and Fort Knox.
   He was a lifetime member of VFW Post 3281 in New Albany and a member of the American Legion Bonnie Sloan Post 28 in New Albany.
   Survivors include his wife of 44 years, Norma D. Senior; sons, Michael R. Foley, of Austin and Steven L. Foley and his wife, Donna, of Memphis; brother, Frank E. Senior, of Louisville; sister, Alice M Eckert, of Floyds Knobs; five grandchildren; and six great-grandchildren.
 Visitation will be at the funeral home from 3 to 8 p.m. today The family requests that expressions of sympathy take the form of contributions to Hosparus of Southern Indiana.

[The Evening News & The Tribune, Jeffersonville, IN, Thu, 02 Jul 2009 ]

Carl's death was attributed to congestive heart failure and aortic stenosis

[courtesy of  Jon Verdick]

Crypt marker for Carl E. and Norma D. Senior in Kraft-Graceland Memorial Park, New Albany (Floyd county), Indiana.

Carl registered for the draft in Columbus, OH on 17 February 1942.

T/5 Senior, then a member of the 506th PIR, was captured on 9 June 1944 and released from captivity on 18 April 1945.

Sgt Senior re-enlisted at Fort Benning, GA on 27 November 1945,,

MSgt Senior was aboard California eastern Flight 833/18 as it departed Hickham AFB in Honolulu, on its way from San Francisco, CA to Tokyo, Japan.

On WOJG Senior was reported to have been appointed as the legal assistance officer for the 508th ARCT,

He retired on 31 December 1962