(Photo courtesy of Arthur Boggs)


Lieutenant Walter H. Boggs and his wife Edna Laverne (Stevens) just before he shipped overseas.  He died of "tropical fever" on 29 October 1944 in Hollandia, New Guinea. It was also called "the crud."  He was brought back and buried on 27 June 1948 in the Romine Prarie Cemetery in Kell, Illinois.


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