Sgt. Walter Doyle Roquet

1920 - 1948  (28 years)

• Name	Walter Doyle Roquet
  Prefix	Sgt.
  Born	17 Mar 1920	Fremont, Mahaska County, Iowa, USA
  Gender	Male
  Died	3 Sep 1948	Nederland
  Buried	Cedar Township Cemetery, Fremont, Mahaska County, Iowa, USA   [1]
  Person ID	I313215	Suedpfalz
  Last Modified	5 Nov 2015

  
  

  Father	Walter Arthur Roquet,   b. 7 Mar 1887, Fremont, Mahaska County, Iowa, USA ,   d. 25 Nov 1945, Fremont, Mahaska County, Iowa, USA  (Age 58 years)
  Mother	Carrie Elsie Allman,   b. 8 Aug 1890, Keokuk County, Iowa, USA ,   d. 2 Sep 1974, Mahaska County, Iowa, USA  (Age 84 years)
  Married	14 Feb 1912	Keokuk County, Iowa, USA
  Family ID	F106225	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Virginia Rae Fisk
  Married	1 Mar 1947
  Last Modified	1 May 2018
  Family ID	F106228	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Sources

  [S926] Find-A-Grave, (www.findagrave.com). Sgt Walter Doyle Roquet Memorial Photos Flowers Edit Share Learn about upgrading this memorial... Birth: Mar. 17, 1920 Fremont Mahaska County Iowa, USA Death: Sep. 3, 1948, England Direct descendent of Thomas Axtell (1619-1646) Direct descendent of Thomas Wellman (1620-1672) 4th Great grandson of Revolutionary War Veteran Cap Jacob Wellman and Jenny Jane Johnson 3rd Great Grandson of Revolutionary War Veterans Thomas Axtell and wife Rebecca French and Abraham Wellman and wife Rebecca Pearson. Great, Great Grandson of Daniel Axtell and Jane Wellman Great Grandson of Fanny Axtell Yeoman and Richard Yeoman, Frederick and Katherina Roquet Grandson of Margaret J Yeoman Roquet and Lewis Cole Roquet Son of Walter Arthur Roquet and Carrie Allman Roquet Tucson Daily Citizen Page 1 Saturday Evening September 4, 1948 Young Tucson Wife Mourns the Death of Husband in Holland Mrs. Walter Doyle Roquet, wife of the Davis-Monthan sergeant who died in Holland Saturday after parachuting from a B-29, was resting under a doctor's care at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Leo Livingston, of 3006 East Linden street. With her, was her infant daughter, Donna. The Linvingstons said Mrs. Roquet learned of her husband's fatal injury through newspaper reports and was especially upset because she had not been informed first by the air force. "We don't even know officially that he's dead," the Livingstons said. Mrs. Roquet, the former Virginia Rae Fisk, was born in Benson. She is 21 years old and graduated from Tucson high school in January, 1947. She and her husband lived at 88 Consolidated Dwellings. Mrs. Rqouet's first word of the plane disaster came with Friday afternoon's newspaper, which reported that Sgt. Roquet was one of the 11 crew members of the B-29 which caught fire on a mock bombing mission. The Livingstons said Mrs. Roquet spent a night of anxiety, not knowing what had happened to her husband. The young couple was married at Davis-Monthan airbase by Chaplain Maj. John Burgess, Mar. 1, 1947. On the marriage license record at that time, Sgt. Roquet gave his age as 26 and his birthplace as Fremont, Ia. Mrs. Carrie (Walter A.) Roquet, the sergeant's mother, telephoned here from her home in Fremont, Saturday morning to say that she had heard the news of the accident over the radio, the Livingstons reported. She had no official notice of her son's death. Sgt. Roquet attended Fremont high school. He had been in the army and the air force since 1941. **THIS IS JUST ONE OF A DOZEN PLUS ARTICLES WRITTEN NATIONWIDE REGARDING THE DEATH OF WALTER D ROQUET** Family links: Parents: Walter Arthur Roquet (1887 - 1945) Carrie E. Allman Roquet (1890 - 1974) Siblings: Gail Juanita Roquet Hedlund (1915 - 1993)* Icel Laverne Roquet Cornell (1916 - 1996)* Walter Doyle Roquet (1920 - 1948) *Calculated relationship Inscription: WALTER DOYLE ROQUET IOWA TECH SGT 20 AF BOMB SQ WORLD WAR II MAR 17 1920 SEP 3 1948 Burial: Cedar Township Cemetery Fremont Mahaska County Iowa, USA Maintained by: InSearchOf Originally Created by: Shelli Steedman Record added: May 28, 2007 Find A Grave Memorial# 19586046