Private First Class, US ARMY
351st Infantry, Company A, 88th Division.
Peter's address was RFD #3 Manning, Iowa.
Departure May 20, 1919, at Saint-Nazaire, France
Arrival 1919, at Camp Morrison Newport News, Virginia, on the U.S.S. Mercury (ID-3012)
Rank Corporal
Service Number 3680404
Unit Casual Detachment, Company A, 351st Infantry
Enlistment June 27, 1918
Discharge June 7, 1919
Peter C. Vehrs, 53, died Wednesday.
Services for PETER VEHRS
Peter C. Vehrs, 53, veteran of World War I, died at the home of his sister, Mrs. Henry
Jensen, in Audubon county, on Wednesday. Funeral services will be on Saturday, September 18, at 2:00 at the Ohde Funeral Home, with the Rev. Brown Garlock officiating. The ceremonial team Emil Ewoldt Post No. 22, American Legion, will conduct military rites.
Mr. Vehrs was born February 7, 1895 in Audubon county and had lived in this vicinity all his
life. At the time he was taken ill he was employed by the Ohde Furniture Company.
He is survived by his mother, Mrs. Bertha Vehrs, of Manning, four sisters: Mrs. Margaret
Wegner, Manning; Mrs. Viola Jensen, Audubon county; Mrs. Verna Olbertz, Omaha; and
Mrs. Louie Miller, Omaha, and one brother, Harold Vehrs, of Manilla. |