World War II

We will eventually consolidate all of our World War II strories about the upper Fishing Creek Valley into this sectoin.

A World War II Honor Roll once stood in front of the Columbia County Farmers National Bank. We include all the names originally inscribed on the Honor Roll, thanks to the Lower Luzerne Web Site. The Honor Roll sign disappeared from our area and we could not locate anyone who knew when it left and where it might have gone. We suspect that it was dislocated during the 1975 flood and was destroyed at that time.

The picture shown below the names is the only picture that we could find of the Honor Roll. It was loaned to us by Bernard Hess and is a copy of an original. We would like to borrow an original of this photograph in order to improve the quality of the image.

World War II Honor Rolls

Benton Borough Albertson, Arthur Appleman, Alton Ash, Charles Bittenbender, Clair Breece, Eugene Brewington, John Brewington, Woodrow Colley, Clair Colley, Earl Colley, Harold Confair, William Conner, Guild Crawford, Bruce Davis, William Dildine, James Diltz, Thomas Edson, James Evans, Roy Force, Lester Ginter, Lewis W. Hartman, Elmer Hartman, Wayne Harvey, Arden Harvey, Max Herrit, Richard Hess, Charles J. Hess, Elery Hess, Harold Hess, Ralph Hess, Robert Hess, Sarah Jean Keeler, Frank Kinney, James Kline, James Knouse, James Knouse, Lloyd Laubach, Charles Laubach, Morris Lockard, Harry McHenry, Clarence McHenry, DeArmond McHenry, Ira McHenry, Jack McHenry, Kermit McHenry, Robert McHenry, William Miller, Eugene Miller, Haines Rabb, Donald Reimard, Robert (continued next column)		Remley, Marjorie Rosbach, Sidney Savage, Lawrence Shultz, Carl Shultz, Harold Sieg, Donald Snyder, Dick Sutliff, Bruce Vincent, Robert Benton Township Ash, Harold Ashelman, Pierce Bender, Richard Botsford, Harold Conrad, Wilfred Deitrick, Robert DePoe, Fred DePoe, Joseph Depoe, Ray Depoe, Ruth Diltz, Frank Fritz, Budd Hartman, Buddy Hess, Carlton B. Hess, Robert O. Jackson, James A. Kile, Harold Kline, Dayne Knouse, Max Kocher, Albert Kovaleski, Junior Kramer, William Kuzma, Joseph McHenry, George Peterman, Lawrence Peterman, Ralph Sands, Donald Savage, Clarence VanHorn, William Young, Marvin Stillwater Borough Brown, Lester Brown, Robert Crossley, Earl Hagenbuch, Franklin Kindig, Kenneth Letteer, Francis Ribble, Merril Rogers, James Selph, Herman

Sugarloaf Township Ball, William Bilby, Harry Fine, Norman Ford, Glen Ford, Maurice Ford, Paul Ford, Sylvan Fritz, Grant Fritz, Willard Fritz, William Getz, John Grisco, Edmund Hess, Carl Hess, Melvin Michael, Charles Musselman, Allen Pavalonis, Andrew Pavalonis, Anthony Pavalonis, Simon Perry, Anthony, Jr. Perry, Robert Peterman, Roland Shultz, Warren Snyder, Alfred Snyder, Darwood Snyder, George Snyder, Harold Stackhouse, Herman Stackhouse, Thomas Fishingcreek West Ash, Lester Bowman, Max Broderick, William Campbell, David D. Cleaver, Alfred P. Cleaver, George D. Deitterick Edwin Deitterick, Gerald Derr, Marion Halderman, Joe Karnes, Oliver Keller, Bruce Keller, Donald Keller, Earl Musselman, Ott Posey, Clive Rhone, Harold Rutkesky, Anthony Rutkesky, Walter Shaffer, Clarence Stauder, Joseph Sterner, Paul		Fishingcreek East Allegar, Robert Arnold, Edwin Beishline, Clayton Jr. DeWitt, Walter Dohl, Larue Fedder, Donald Fritz, Raymond Gillis, Francis Good, Clifford Good, Dorothy Good, Herbert Gower, Russell Hayman, Homer Hess, Charles Kishbaugh, Meldon Lunger, Henry Musselman, William Naguszewski, John Palmer, Carl Palmer, Harry Pennington, Herman Remphrey, George Rhinard, Warren Strickland, Warren Travelpiece, James Wenner, Arthur Wenner, Carlton Wenner, Charles Wenner, Theron Whitenight, Robert Yost, Drew Yost, Leland Yost, William Jackson Township Charles, Leland Fritz, Donald Fritz, Sterling Hartman, Arthur Hartman, Robert Heath, Lester Hess, Carlton Hess, E.J. Kline, Guy Knouse, George Litwhiler, Edward Litwhiler, Henry Miller, Theodore Newhart, Carl Parks, Arthur Steadman, Vincent Steinruck, Harold Steinruck, Ray Young, Alonzo Russell Haines Leonard Haines

The Columbia Countty Farmers National Bank

The World War II Honor Roll is in the left front of the picture

All of the names shown above were inscribed on the Honor Roll

The following men lost their lives for their country
during World War II:

Flight Officer Jay Faux, Stillwater R.D., missing in action over Italy. Declared dead July 7, 1943.

Major William Confair, Benton, died of wounds received in Aleutians, January 13, 1945.

PFC Willard M. Van Horn, Benton township, killed in action in France, October 7, 1944.

Sgt. Eugene Thomas, Bendertown, killed in action on Iowa Jima, March, 1945.

Pvt. Charles Hilley, Benton R. D. #2, killed in action in Normandy June 13, 1944.

T/Sgt. Henry Grisco, Benton R. D., killed in plane crash June 17, 1945.

PFC Harold E. Stenruck, Benton Township, killed in action in France October 12, 1944.

Lt. H. Jack McHenry, Benton, missing in action in the South Pacific, May 15, 1945.

William Ball, Jamison City, Sugarloaf Twp. Missing in action.

Darwood Snyder, Grassmere, Sugarloaf Twp., killed in Europe.

"I cannot say and will not say
That he is dead, he is just away!
With a cheery smile and a wave of the hand,
He has wandered into an unknown land
And left us dreaming. How very fair
It needs must be, since he lingers there.
Think of him still as the same, I say,
He is not dead, he is just away."

World War II

World War II Honor Rolls

Benton Borough

Benton Township

Stillwater Borough

Sugarloaf Township

Fishingcreek West

Fishingcreek East

Jackson Township

The Columbia Countty Farmers National Bank The World War II Honor Roll is in the left front of the picture All of the names shown above were inscribed on the Honor Roll

The following men lost their lives for their country during World War II:

The Columbia Countty Farmers National Bank

The World War II Honor Roll is in the left front of the picture

All of the names shown above were inscribed on the Honor Roll

The following men lost their lives for their country
during World War II: