Wright County

 

Kenneth Eugene Mosher

 

 

 

Robert Edward and Mary Ellen Hamer Mosher Family - Wright Co.

Kenneth Eugene ‘Skin’ Mosher was born Feb. 22, 1920. He died Feb. 3, 1993 and is buried in Evergreen Cemetery, Clarion, IA.

Chief Mosher served as a torpedo man on the submarines USS Plunger and USS Pogy. The secretary of the Navy awarded Kenneth the Navy Unit Commendation on two occasions for outstanding heroism displayed in action against enemy Japanese shipping and combatant units.
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Donald Edward ‘Moe’ Mosher was born May 8, 1925. He died Aug. 5, 2009 and is buried in Rose Hill Cemetery, Eagle Grove, IA.

Don served in Adak, Alaska and Okinawa, Japan with the 66th battalion, U.S. Marine Corps in World War II.

Sources: “Ordinary Heroes”, by Judge Newt Draheim, Chapter 16; ancestry.com