Return to Sender
Irving Park Lutheran Church sent 388 of its men and women to the military during World War II. Recently, we discovered a box containing more than 1,000 letters written by 237 of the IPLC members in the military. So far, we have returned the letters to 109 original letter writers or their families. We're still looking for the following letter writers or their families. Please look at the list, and if you know anything about any of these people, contact the IPLC office or E-mail Ralph Greenslade at slade1039@comcast.net.
(Confirmation Class: A=Adult; R=Reaffirmation)
+ = killed in action
Here is a list of the 128 letter writers from World War II that we've been unable to locate:
Carl H. Ahlgren
(32) John Ahlstromer
(32) Joseph H. Almquist
Grace Westberg Amundsen
Harvey M. Andersen
(37?) Donald C.(or)M. Anderson
Roy Anderson
Thorwald H. Anderson
Joseph Aubry
Raymond C. Baker
(35) Le Roy Benson
Charles Bentz
Carl G. Berglund
(30) Lawrence Oscar Berglund
Ralph B. Bersell
(36) William A. Blumhagen
Philip J. Brewer
Rodney Wm. Brewer
Dorothy Brown
(33) Arthur L. Carlson
(32) B. Helge Carlson
Bill Carlson
(34) Carl H. Carlson
Earling L. Carlson
Edward S. Carlson
Frank G. Carlson
(34)C.F. Harold Carlson
Sven M. Carlson
Ray Cashman
(33) Gail Jacob Cerny
(33) Walter Kasper Cerny
Arthur W. Clark
(35) James E. Ebenholtz
Robert C. Edstrand
(41R) Harold O. Eichmann
Russell Finn
John Friedstrom
(40) William C. Froehlich
Carl O. Gilbert
Janet Goranson
William B. Goranson
Robert M. Grevin
(35) Leonard R. Hansen +
Carl "Bert" Hanson
(33) Donald R. Hanson
(27) John P. Hedlund
(32) Jack T. Hendricks
Alexander Hermann
Victor M. Hokanson
(33) Kenneth A. Holmberg
William A. Hoveland
Albert C. Jacobson
Paul J. Jancovic
(36) Adeline V. Johnson
"Bob" Johnson
Carl C. Johnson
Clifford T. Johnson
(32) Harold A. Johnson
Kurt Johnson
(25/35?)Raymond Victor Johnson
Robert D. Johnson
(34) Robert E. Johnson
(37) Robert G. Johnson +
Rodney H. Johnson
(37) Robert L. Jones
Edward J. Jordan
Arthur Kalmar
Harry Kiernozycki
William J. Kiley
(34) George Koutsogianis
(36) LeRoy Segar Kussy +
J.K. "Kenneth" Landon
Dorris C. Larson
(41R) John K. Larson
Marius Bejer Lassen
J.G. "Gus" Lays
Leonard Lindblom
Carl Lindroth
Lillian M. Lindskog
Clifford Lindstrom
(33) Norman C. Lindquist
Harry Linn
Carl G. Lundquist
Franklin Lundquist
Edmund Clarence Lust +
Albert J. Mack
Harold R. Major
Einar K. Mehl
(35) Kenneth Mehl
Walter P. Mortensen
George H. Moyland
William C. Munson
(39) Lawrence G. Nelson
Albert Neumann
Raymond F. Nicholson
(32) Mark A. Norcutt
Henry C. Oberg
Roy W. Ohlson
George C. Olsen
Norman K. Olsen
Walter E. Olson
John Paul Origer
Earl M. Pearson
Edward W. Pollex
(34) Harry Porz
Fred A. Reisner
(30) Stanley Edward Rolph
(32) Robert M. Rosberg
(31) Robert A. Sandberg
(29) Warner Carl Sevander
Carl H. Soderstrom
Charles Specht
George F. Stockwell
Chester G. Sundstrom
Arthur R. Swanson
(30) Mae Helen Swanson
Melvin R. Swanson
(25) Walter Clarence Swanson
(38) Charles J. Thomas
Russell S. Thompson
Frederick C. Wagner
"Warren's Mom"
(36) Robert W. Weiss
Ray Wikstrom
Edson S. Willaman
Robert Stayman Willaman +
(39) Arthur G. Williams
Richard F. Williams