Peter C. Vehrs

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
Born February 7, 1895 Audubon County, Iowa
Entered into Rest at Henry Jensen Home September 15, 1948
Age 53 years, 7 months, 8 days
Services Held at Ohde Funeral Home September 18, 1948
Clergyman Rev. Brown Garlock
Interment Manning Cemetery
Military Honors by Veterans of Foreign Wars Post No. 3517

Peter C. Vehrs, 53, veteran of World War I, died at the home of his sister, Mrs. Henry Jensen, in Audubon county, on Wednesday.
He had been a patient at the veteran's hospital in Des Moines since May, and had been living in the home of his sister a week when he passed away.

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 was never married.

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.
He was preceded in death by 3 brothers and one sister.