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Birth: Sep. 28, 1924
Hysham
Treasure County
Montana, USA
Death: May 21, 1951, South Korea
United States Army Private First Class served with the 21st Infantry Regiment, 24th Infantry Division. He was killed in action while in combat while in South Korea.
Billings Gazette - Billings, MT
Friday - 23 November 1951
Page 14 - Column 1
Services Planned For Hardin Soldier
Hardin, Nov. 22 - Funeral services for Frank Stanley Gress, who was killed
in Korea May 21, will be conducted Monday at 10 a.m. in the Hardin Catholic
church with the Rev. D. L. Owens officiating.
Mr. Gress was the son of Mr. and Mrs. William Gress of Hardin.
Pallbearers will be brothers and half brothers of the deceased.
Hardin Post No. 8 of the American Legion will furnish color guard, firing
squad and bugler for military services at Custer Battlefield national
cemetery, where the soldier will be buried.
Sergeant Glen Helmann of Hardin escorted the body from Oakland, Cal. to
Hardin.
Mr. Gress was born September 28, 1924, at Hysham. He came to Hardin with his
parents and attended Hardin schools, later being employed at the Chevrolet
garage here.
He was a veteran of World war II, during service in which he was twice
wounded in action. In 1950 he reenlisted in the army at Harvey, N.D., and
left for overseas early in 1951. He served in Korea until his death.
Survivors include his parents; five brothers, Mike, Johnny, Bobby, Marcus
and Bennie; seven sisters, Barbara, Eva, Katherine, Annie, Rosie, Margaret
and Frances; five half brothers, George, Pete, Anton, Willie and Emanuel,
and a half sister, Christina.
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Parents:
William George Gress (1882 - 1967)
Anna Heintz Gress (1898 - 1990)
Siblings:
George Gress (1909 - 1996)**
Pete Gress (1911 - 1980)**
William Joseph Gress (1916 - 1971)**
Barbara Gress Hilstad (1920 - 2013)*
Benedict Gress (1921 - 1988)*
Eva Gress Korber (1922 - 2012)*
Frank Stanley Gress (1924 - 1951)
Michael Gress (1925 - 2003)*
John Gress (1926 - 1990)*
Anna Marie Gress Burns (1929 - 2009)*
Rosie Gress Heedick (1930 - 2012)*
Margaret Gress Lind (1931 - 2012)*
Robert Michael Gress (1932 - 1989)*
*Calculated relationship
**Half-sibling
Burial:
Custer National Cemetery
Crow Agency
Big Horn County
Montana, USA
Plot: D 142
Created by: Robert
Record added: Aug 11, 2007
Find A Grave Memorial# 20900359
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1924 - 1951 (26 years)