Iowa PVT US ARMY
PRIVATE RUDOLPH H. DETHLEFS
Departure May 22, 1918, at Hoboken, New Jersey, on the U.S.S. Leviathan (ID# 1326)
Unit Company C, 318th Engineers, 6th Division, Infantry Regiment - (Overseas Casual Company #184)
Service Number 881183
Son of Peter & Augusta (Wohlers) Dethlefs
Entered service March, 1918
Saw action at Argonne Forest
PRIVATE RUDOLPH H. DETHLEFS
Iowa City, 318th Engineers, 6th Division.
Son of Mr. and Mrs. Peter Dethlefs.
Born July 28, 1895.
Entered service March 1918.
Sailed for France May 8, 1918.
Saw action at Argonne Forest.
The body will arrive at the Ohde Funeral Home in Manning Wednesday morning, March 30. Funeral services will be held at the Ohde Funeral Home at 2 p.m. Thursday, March 31, with the Rev. Carl Sinning of the Manning Presbyterian Church, officiating. Burial will be in the Manning Cemetery.
Mr. Dethlefs was the son of Peter H. and Augusta A. (Wohlers) Dethlefs and was born at Manning, July 28, 1894.
He was a veteran of World War 1. He had worked for many years as a salesman and at the time of his death was employed in the San Francisco post office.
Surviving are a sister, Mrs. Henry (Elsa) Witham of Indianapolis, Indiana; and two brothers, Edwin of Des Moines and Robert of Anniston, Alabama.