PFC. PASSWATERS AWARDED MEDAL; WOUNDED DEC. 1
Mrs. Edgar Passwaters of this city has received the purple heart medal awarded her husband for wounds suffered in action, Dec. 1, while serving with the Seventh army in France.
The Webster City soldier was recently promoted to the rank of private first class and has been serving overseas since the first of February.
Receipt of the medal was the first word of her husband which Mrs. Passwaters had received for several weeks.
Source: Daily Freeman Journal, Webster City, IA - Feb. 1, 1945
NOTES:
Edgar Lyle Passwaters was born Sept. 2, 1906 to James and Bertha May Pringle Passwaters. He died Mar. 26, 1973 and is buried in Graceland Cemetery, Webster City, IA.
Sources: Daily Freeman Journal and ancestry.com
