PLAN MILITARY FUNERALS FOR 2 SHARON
HEROES
Sharon, Pa., Nov. 25--Military funerals have been
arranged for two Sharon men who lost their lives in Europe and whose
bodies arrived here today.
Services for Sgt. Eugene Sheehan will be at 10 a.m. Wednesday at
Sacred Heart Church. The body is at Hall Funeral Home.
Services for Pvt. Albert Lehett will be at 10 a.m. Thursday at Holy
Trinity Slovak Lutheran Church. The body is at the home of his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Lehett of 761 Cedar Ave.
The bodies, first to arrive in Sharon, were met at the train by a
military escort from the American Legion Post.
[The Youngstown Vindicator, Youngstown, Ohio,
Tuesday, November 25, 1947, Page Six (internet edition)[PDF] |
(courtesy of Tom Rottman)Grave marker for Pvt Albert Lehett at
Row 2 Section B in the Trinity Lutheran
Cemetery, Hermitage,
Pennsylvania.,
Pvt Lehett was killed when in the Basse-Borderux area of
Belgium on December 27, 1945 and was awarded the Purple Heart.
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