Winneshiek County

Charles W. (Bill) Amundson

 

 

 

News About Men in Service From Over Northeast Iowa

DECORAH—Charles W. (Bill) Amundson, stationed at Dutch Harbor, Alaska, writes home that “taint necessarily so that there is a girl behind every tree. There aren’t any trees at Dutch Harbor.”

Source: Waterloo Daily Courier, Sunday, Nov. 7, 1943

Charles Willis “Bill” Amundson was born July 12, 1915 to Robert Ashton and Ruth Ida Krammer Amundson. He died May 15, 1949 and is buried in Lincoln Memorial Park, Lincoln, NE. Bill served with the U.S. Navy in World War II.

Source: ancestry.com