Source: Rockford Register Star, Aug. 15,2021.
Guam
Giorgi, Amadeo A.
& Marilyn busn. rep. United Food and Commercial Workers Union :pca; No 1540 h1529 Victoria Ave.
Source: 1987 Rockford City Directory
Source: Rockford Register Star 5/19/2013
WWII – Marines Swenson, Carl A. “Al”
enlisted Summer of 1942; served more than 3 years, 2 1/2 years in Pacific: Bougainville, Guam and Iwo Jima, died 11/15/2012
Source: Rockford Register Star 11/18/2012
WWII – Marines Hainchek, Alex John “Junior”
WWII, served in Guam, Iwo Jima, Purple Heart, died 9/3/2012
Source: Rockford Register Star 9/8/2012
WWII – Marines Beebe, Harley
graduated Blue River High School 1943, born in Richland Center, Wisconsin. Radio operator on Iwo Jima and Guam, died 6/19/2013
Source: Rockford Register Star 6/25/2013
Rothstein, Ralph A,
Born December 8, 1917, in Haynes, ND, fourth son of Christ Rothstein and Mary Elizabeth (O’Keefe-McCarney) Rothstein.
Graduated Jamestown University, ND.
U.S.N.R. veteran of WWII, Ralph proudly served his country from 1941 to 1945 on the USS Ancon, flagship of the Naval Amphibious Corps of the U S Atlantic Fleet for the invasions of North Africa, Sicily and Salerno, Italy, and Omaha Beach on D-Day; and later on the USS Fergus which landed troops on Guam, Saipan, Einewetok, and Hokkaido for the surrender of Japan, 1945.
Died January 3, 2014, St. Anne’s Center, Rockford.
Holy Family Catholic Church, private burial at St. Mary’s Cemetery.
Source: Rockford Register Star January 7, 2014