----Source: Greenwood Library Scrapbook Collection

MARSHFIELD NEWS HERALD 1/ /1949

DILL BURIAL WILL BE HELD JAN. 31
MILITARY SERVICES WILL BE CONDUCTED FOR GREENWOOD SOLDIER

Greenwood--The body of Pfc. Leo Dill, 19, son of Mrs. Lydia Dill, has been returned for burial. He was killed in action in Holland Oct. 7, 1944.

The remains will be at the Schiller Funeral Home from this evening until Monday noon. Services will be held at 2 o'clock Monday afternoon at Zion Evangelical and Reformed Church, the Rev. B. M. Fresenborg officiating. Burial will be made in the Greenwood Cemetery.

Military reburial rites will be conducted by the Wallis-Hinker Post, No. 238, American Legion and its Auxiliary en masse.

The color guard will include Victor Perman, Roland Mondloch, Frank Klinke, and Cletus Susa.

Pallbearers will be Kenneth Speich, Raymond Vessel, Robert Speich, Harry Wallis, Robert Carl, and Lawrence Jackson.

Louis Edwards, John D. Speich, Ed Gosse, Laverne Brown, Leo Wehrman, Earl Gordee, Frank Petkovsek, Val Yurkovich, Jerome Swiejo, and William Kavanaugh will be on the firing squad.

Leo Dill was born Dec. 17, 1924, in Greenwood, where he lived until he enlisted in the armed forces March 23, 1943. His last furlough was spent with his mother from April 7 to 15, 1944, before he left for overseas with the airborne troops. He landed in England, and then left for Holland, where he was killed.

He had received his training at Camp Butner, N.C., Camp Pickett, Va., Fort George G. Meade, and at Nashville, Tenn.

Surviving are his mother, Mrs. Lydia Dill, Greenwood five brothers, Gottlieb, Hazelton, N.D. Gilbert, Hollandale, Minn. Henry, Chicago Norbert and Harvey, Greenwood four sisters, Mrs. Philip (Alberta) Thomas, Redding, Calif. Mrs. Adolph (Anita) Abel, Greenwood Mrs. Louis (Beulah) Matkovich, Willard and Mrs. Harold (Julia) Mitte, Globe and his maternal grandfather, Gottlieb Kuester, Greenwood.