0MRADES GATHER’ ‘ iii LAST HONORS i‘ , FOR SERVICE MAN WY' 5.; f 3 " " i . HOLD D‘IILITARY SERVICES FOR ARTHUR TEGTMEYER, FIRST OVERSEAS SOLDIER IED HERE AT The casket containin the remains of Arthur Tegtmeyer, t e second Ma~ son County buy to be returned after burial from France, reached Shel— ton Saturday evening, and the funer- al was held on Wednesday afternoon. Rev. J. c. Dorwin, family friend and former pastor was called from Te- ,coma and the service was held at ithe‘ Chapel at 2 p, vm., under full military honors by the American : Legion, a bugler and firing squad , from Camp Lewis being provided for l the occasion. l The service at the chapel consisted of a solo by Mrs. Idelle Ward and the address and prayer by Rev..Dor- Win, and at its conclusion the casket, draped with the American flag and howered in flowers, was born by six ex»servt‘ce men to the hearse andl escorted by former soldiers and sail—‘ ors in 35 cars to the cemetery; There] -the last hrief rites were given, in clndine the martial salute and “taps." Arthur Wondmfi Tegtrneyer was born June 26. 1390, at Merchantviile, 1., where he first attended schoolr With his parents, Mr. and Mrs. w. A Teetmeysr, during the years 1897 and 1399 he spent eighteen months in Alaska, returning to Seattle in the fall of 1399 and there remained ,until 1904 when he moved with his parents to Shelton imd‘attended shel- ton high school for a couple of years, then finishing his course at'the Lin- coln high school in Snat'tle. , Early in 1910 he‘ moved to Sunnyside and later took a four-year course in engineering at the University of Washington, In July, 1917, he en- listed in Co, D, Eighteenth Engineers, land left for France on August 1st. He was first sent to Bordeaux, France where he remained at work until the first part of August, 1918, being pro< , moted to corporal in June. His transfer then was to Co: F, 307th Engineers where he remained in active service until his death on October 25th, 1918, of lobar pneu- ‘ mania in the base hospital at Allerey, France. The family has hut little definite information as to the record of their son during his service withi ,the 307th Engineers, but the depart ‘ment has recently furnished a record which indicates that Arthur served in three major actions, including Argonne and st. Mihielr They would like to get in touch with men who served in the 307th._ ‘ Arthur was a bright and promising young manwho would have made his mark in civil life had he been spared, :as he surely did in his military ser- vice, and the communities where he was best known will give the he- reaved family full measure of con- dolence , OCR Text: 0MRADES GATHER’ ‘ iii LAST HONORS i‘ , FOR SERVICE MAN WY' 5.; f 3 " " i . HOLD D‘IILITARY SERVICES FOR ARTHUR TEGTMEYER, FIRST OVERSEAS SOLDIER IED HERE AT The casket containin the remains of Arthur Tegtmeyer, t e second Ma~ son County buy to be returned after burial from France, reached Shel— ton Saturday evening, and the funer- al was held on Wednesday afternoon. Rev. J. c. Dorwin, family friend and former pastor was called from Te- ,coma and the service was held at ithe‘ Chapel at 2 p, vm., under full military honors by the American : Legion, a bugler and firing squad , from Camp Lewis being provided for l the occasion. l The service at the chapel consisted of a solo by Mrs. Idelle Ward and the address and prayer by Rev..Dor- Win, and at its conclusion the casket, draped with the American flag and howered in flowers, was born by six ex»servt‘ce men to the hearse andl escorted by former soldiers and sail—‘ ors in 35 cars to the cemetery; There] -the last hrief rites were given, in clndine the martial salute and “taps." Arthur Wondmfi Tegtrneyer was born June 26. 1390, at Merchantviile, 1., where he first attended schoolr With his parents, Mr. and Mrs. w. A Teetmeysr, during the years 1897 and 1399 he spent eighteen months in Alaska, returning to Seattle in the fall of 1399 and there remained ,until 1904 when he moved with his parents to Shelton imd‘attended shel- ton high school for a couple of years, then finishing his course at'the Lin- coln high school in Snat'tle. , Early in 1910 he‘ moved to Sunnyside and later took a four-year course in engineering at the University of Washington, In July, 1917, he en- listed in Co, D, Eighteenth Engineers, land left for France on August 1st. He was first sent to Bordeaux, France where he remained at work until the first part of August, 1918, being pro< , moted to corporal in June. His transfer then was to Co: F, 307th Engineers where he remained in active service until his death on October 25th, 1918, of lobar pneu- ‘ mania in the base hospital at Allerey, France. The family has hut little definite information as to the record of their son during his service withi ,the 307th Engineers, but the depart ‘ment has recently furnished a record which indicates that Arthur served in three major actions, including Argonne and st. Mihielr They would like to get in touch with men who served in the 307th._ ‘ Arthur was a bright and promising young manwho would have made his mark in civil life had he been spared, :as he surely did in his military ser- vice, and the communities where he was best known will give the he- reaved family full measure of con- dolence , Mason County Genealogical Society,Obituaries,Obituaries for Shelton Cemetery,T Last Name,Tegtmeyer, Arthur.tif,Tegtmeyer, Arthur.tif, Tegtmeyer, Arthur.tif