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Donald Edward Jennings
Male 1915 - 1944

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  • Birth  6 Oct 1915  Le Mars, Plymouth, Iowa, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2] 
    Gender  Male 
    Died  25 Dec 1944  Chengto, Sichuan, China Find all individuals with events at this location  [3] 
    Buried  Le Mars, Plymouth, Iowa, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [4] 
    Person ID  I2655  Jacob Strong and Sarah Hill
    Last Modified  26 Apr 2013 
     
    Father  Walter Jennings,   b. 31 Aug 1887, Le Mars, Plymouth, Iowa, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 10 Nov 1972, Remsen, Plymouth, Iowa, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Mother  Esther Arizilla Taylor,   b. 8 Sep 1890, Bloomington, McLean, Illinois, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 7 Jan 1971, Le Mars, Plymouth, Iowa, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Married  28 Jan 1914  Le Mars, Plymouth, Iowa, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID  F995  Group Sheet
     
  • Notes 
    • Killed in military service
     
  • Sources 
    1. [S412] Birth: Record of Births, Plymouth County, Iowa, 1412134., pg. 134 Le Mars.
      Date Filed: Oct. 15, 1915
      Child: Jennings, Donald Edward
      Sex: M
      Order of Birth: 1st
      Date of Birth: Oct. 6, 1915
      Father: Walter Jennings
      Residence: Le Mars, Iowa
      Color: W
      Age: 27
      Birth Place: Iowa
      Occupation: Miller
      Mother: Esther Taylor
      Residence: Le Mars
      Color: W
      Age: 24
      Birth Place: Illinois
      Occupation: H.W.
      Attending Physician: R. R. Wilds MD, Le Mars, Iowa

    2. [S279] Newspaper: Le Mars Sentinel, Page 5 Column 4.
      An eight and one-half pound boy was born to Mr. and Mrs Walter Jennings on Tremont street, October 6th
      Date: 8 October 1915

    3. [S357] Obituary: Iowa, LeMars Sentinel.
      Jennings, Pvt. Donald 1915-1944
      JENNINGS
      Posted By: Linda Ziemann, volunteer DONALD JENNINGS, LEMARS MAN, DIES IN PLANE CRASH WAS WITH ARMY AIR FORCES ON CHINESE FRONT
      Mr. and Mrs. Walter Jennings were notified by the war department Sunday, December 31, that their son, Pvt. Donald Jennings, had been killed in a plane crash December 25, at Chengto, China. Donald was a radio operator on a transport plane and was stationed in India.
      He entered the service in December, 1942, and received his training at Scott Field, Illinois. He had been stationed in Reno, Nevada, and Florida, but after his furlough in August, 1944, he was sent overseas and stationed in India.
      Donald Jennings was born October 6, 1915, in LeMars and attended the LeMars public school, graduating from the LeMars High School with the Class of 1934. Following his graduation he worked as a painter. The survivors, besides his parents, are three brothers, Sgt. Walter Jennings, in the air corps and stationed at Pratt, Kansas, Robert Cecil Jennings, S2/c, in the southwest Pacific, and Charles S., defense worker in Sunnyside, Washington; also a sister, Leona, who is working in Sioux City.
      ~Source: LeMars Sentinel, January 2, 1945
      Date: 2 January 1945

    4. [S281] Cemetery: Iowa, Plymouth, LeMars.
      Jennings, Donald E.
      6 October 1915
      25 December 1944
      Iowa PFC Air Corps WWII Cemetery 17
      #17 America Twp. Section 15W Name: Le Mars

  

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