Col. Hallagan Meets With Local Board
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The following have appealed the classifications made by the local board to the board of Appeal (in every case so far passed on the board of Appeal has upheld the classification made by the local board):
…., Gerald E. Den Herder, … These appeals were all made between March 15th and April 26th.
Source: Rock Valley Bee May 4, 1945 p 5
Leave For Exams
The following men left Sunday, May 13, for Fort Snelling, Minnesota to be inducted into the Armed Forces:
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Gerald E. Den Herder, Hull
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Source: Sioux County Capital May 14, 1945 p 1
Here is the address of a new recruit, Gerald E. Den Herder A/S, Co. 688, U.S.N.T.C., Great Lakes, Ill.
Source: Sioux Center News May 24, 1945 p 8
Draft Board
Minutes of May 21, 1945
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The following were transferred from 1-A to 1-C Ind: …, Gerald E. Den Herder, …
Source: Sioux County Capital May 31, 1945 p 1
Furloughs
Name, address and expiration date of furlough
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Gerald E. Den Herder, Alton…7-11-45
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Source: Sioux County Capital July 5, 1945 p 1
Gerald Den Herder, who left for the service several weeks ago, has finished his boot training for the navy at the Great Lakes naval training center at Chicago, Ill. and arrived here the past week to spend a week’s leave with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. John G. Den Herder. His wife and daughter Karen who have been staying at the home of her mother, Mrs. Smedley at Alton during his absence are spending his leave with him at the parental Den Herder home.
Source: Sioux Center News July 5, 1945 p 8
S 2/c Gerald E. Den Herder and S 2/c Leo Henrich arrived Friday from Rhode Island for 10-day furloughs at their homes.
Source: Sioux County Capital July 5, 1945 p 7
New Address:
Gerald E. Den Herder S 2/c
984-77-90 Unit H-4 N.C.T.C.
Camp Endicott
Davisville, Rhode Island
Source: Sioux Center News July 12, 1945 p 10
Gerald Den Herder S 2/c has a little change in his address:
Gerald E. Den Herder S 2/c
Training Group M-48
Barracks B-4 N.C.T.C.
Davisville, Rhode Island
Source: Sioux Center News July 19, 1945 p 8
Leo Henrich S 2/c and Gerald E. Den Herder S 2/c left Monday for Camp Endicott, R. I., where they have been assigned for SeaBee training. They spent a 10-day leave with their families.
Source: Sioux County Capital July 19, 1945 p 8
Mrs. Gerald Den Herder left for Providence, Rhode Island the past week where she is visiting with her husband who is stationed there.
Source: Sioux Center News Aug. 2, 1945 p 8
Mr. and Mrs. John G. Den Herder and Karen Ruth, small daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Den Herder, who is making her home with her grandparents, were visitors at the Mrs. Gertrude Smedley home Sunday night.
Mrs. Gerald Den Herder left for Rhode Island on the 19th day of July arriving there the 21st of July. She expects to stay with him as long as Gerald is in camp there. Gerald expects to move to the west coast soon. Her address is as follows: Mrs. Gerald Den Herder, 15 Burt Street, Greenwood, Rhode Island.
Source: Sioux Center News Aug. 2, 1945 p 4
Mrs. Gerald E. Den Herder has returned the past week from her six week stay at Rhode Island with her husband Gerald E. Den Herder S 2/c, as Gerald left for Shoemaker, Calif. Mrs. Den Herder and daughter Karen will stay at her mother, Mrs. Smedley, and at the Den Herder home.
New Address:
Gerald E. Den Herder S 2/c
C.D. 2804 – 3 Ech.
C.B.R.D., Camp Parks
Shoemaker, Calif.
Source: Sioux Center News Sept. 6, 1945 p 8
Here is the new address of Gerald E. Den Herder S 2/c, Box No. 8, Camp Parks, Calif. His wife left for California to be with her husband while stationed there. Her address is: Mrs. Gerald E. Den Herder, 1801 Rex Road, Hayward, Calif.
Source: Sioux Center News Oct. 4, 1945 p 10
Hurt In Car Crash
A car accident occurred early Thanksgiving morning, two miles south of Sergeant Bluffs, Iowa, in which several persons were injured. In one car were Mr. and Mrs. John G. Den Herder and their granddaughter Karen Ruth, all of Hull, and Mrs. Gertrude Smedley and Miss Alberta Lucas both of Alton. They were enroute home from Omaha, where they had spent the preceding day and evening with the intention of meeting Seaman and Mrs. Gerald Den Herder who were coming home on leave from Hayward, Calif. As the train was several hours late, the Sioux County folks decided to come on home, and left Omaha at 10:15 p.m. Near the bluffs at 1:15 a.m. an oncoming motorist sideswiped the Den Herder car, turning it completely around and rolling it over a few times. The car landed on its wheels. Mr. Den Herder, in order to avoid the crash, had driven his car onto the shoulder and thus avoided a head-on collision. The Den Herders and Karen Ruth were thrown from the front seat through the doors onto the pavement. Mrs. Smedley and Miss Lucas were found on the floor in the back seat.
Two Sioux City cars following picked up the injured, and took them to St. Vincents hospital Sioux City and reported the matter to the police.
Mr. Den Herder suffered back injuries including a cracked vertebra. Mrs. Smedley sustained cracked ribs and possible arm injuries, Mrs. Den Herder a gash under one eye and bruises, Karen Ruth a gash under the chin and Miss Lucas bruises on one knee. The latter three were dismissed the same day.
The Den Herder car was badly damaged. The other car, from Sioux City, was not badly damaged and no one was hurt.
S 1/c and Mrs. Gerald Den Herder arrived Thursday morning from Omaha and went to Sioux City that afternoon to be with their parents at the hospital.
Source: Sioux County Capital Nov. 29, 1945 p 1
Gerald E. Den Herder, who is home on leave, and stationed at California, is promoted to S 1/c.
Source: Sioux Center News Nov. 29, 1945 p 10
Mr. John Den Herder, who was so seriously injured in a car accident on Thanksgiving morning, was placed in a cast last Wednesday morning and he was brought to his home here by ambulance on Friday afternoon. He will have to remain in this cast for several months. Mrs. Gertrude Smedley of Alton, who was also in this same accident and who suffered several broken ribs, came home on Saturday from the St. Vincent hospital at Sioux City. Her children, S 1/c and Mrs. Gerald Den Herder drove to Sioux City to get her and Mrs. Den Herder is caring for her mother at the present time.
Source: Sioux County Index Dec. 6, 1945 p 3
Gerald E. Den Herder S 1/c is home on a five-day leave. He will be transferred from Calif. to Great Lakes, Ill. and will be leaving again the latter part of this week.
Source: Sioux Center News Jan. 17, 1946 p 10
Mr. and Mrs. Gerrit Schutt and Mr. and Mrs. Gerrit Vermeer were among those present at a party for Gerald E. Den Herder S 1/c at the home of Mrs. Smedley at Alton Wednesday evening. Mrs. Gerald Den Herder and Karen are making their home with her mother while Gerald is in the service.
Source: Sioux Center News Jan. 24, 1946 p 8
Gerald E. Den Herder S 2/c
P.S.C. U. S. Naval Personal
Separation Center
Minneapolis, Minn.
At present he is home on a seven-day leave.
Source: Sioux Center News Jan. 31, 1946 p 12
Draft Board
Minutes of April 2, 1946
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1-C Discharged
…, Gerald E. Den Herder, …
Source: Sioux County Capital April 4, 1946 p 1
Discharged March 28 From Navy
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GERALD E. DEN HERDER S 1/c
Gerald E. Den Herder S 1/c arrived home last week having received his discharge on March 28 at Minneapolis, Minn. Gerald received his boot training at Great Lakes, joined the Seabees, and then had two months training at Camp Endicott, R. I. Later he was sent to Camp Parks, Calif. and from there was transferred to Minneapolis, Minn. He did office work most of the time. His wife and daughter have been making their home in Alton with their mother.
Source: Sioux Center News April 4, 1946 p 1
Gerald E. Den Herder received his discharge at Minneapolis and has returned to the farm. Mrs. Den Herder and their daughter will remain a while longer at her mother’s home.
Source: Sioux County Capital April 4, 1946 p 6
Honoring Gerald Den Herder, who arrived here Thursday after receiving his discharge from the Navy, Mrs. Gertrude Smedley and daughter entertained at dinner Mr. and Mrs. John G. Den Herder of Sioux Center, Mr. and Mrs. Stewart De Groot, Mr. Peter Lucas and Alberta. The former seaman first class will take over the management of his father’s farm. Mr. Den Herder Sr. is still unable to work after the car accident last Thanksgiving when three vertebrae in his neck and two in his back were broken. He expects to move to Sioux Center with Mrs. Den Herder as soon as their home there is vacated. Mrs. Gerald Den Herder and Karen Ruth will remain here with Mrs. Smedley until the parents move.
Source: Alton Democrat Apr. 4, 1946 p 5
Iowa, U. S., WWII Bonus Case Files 1947-1954, Claim No. 98906
Gerald Eugene Den Herder, SN 9847790, was born Jan. 5, 1921 in Sioux Center, Iowa, and was living at RR2, Hull, Iowa prior to joining the Navy on May 5, 1945, assigned to Great Lakes, Ill. He served with the Construction Battalion Replacement Depot at Camp Parks, Calif. and was discharged on March 22, 1946. His application for bonus pay was filed on May 20, 1949, and he received $110.00 in bonus pay.
Source: ancestry.com
