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- Niagara Gazette - 6/1/1942
To Bury Young
Selectee Here
Found Dead at Arkansas Camp
Soon After Induction.
The body of Private Norman A.
Schultz, 32, son of Mr. and Mrs. Al-
bert schultz, of 169 Eighty-first
street, this city, who was found dead
at Camp Robinson, Arkansas, last
Tuesday, will be sent to this city for
funeral services and burial, the Rev.
George Hoyer pastor of the Zlon
Lutheran church, Cayuga drive, said
today. The time of the arrival has
not been determined by members of
the young selectee's family.
The Rev. Mr. Hoyer said that the
parents of Private Schultz received
a telegram from officials of the
Arkansas camp Friday night, informing
them of his death. They
had received no previous information
regarding his death, Mr. Hoyer
said, before they read the announcement
in the Owl edition of the Gazette
on Friday afternoon.
Private Schultz had been employed
as janitor of the Cayuga
drive church. He left this city with
one of the last groups of selectees
sent by the La Salle area draft
board and was stationed at Fort
Niagara two days before being sent
to Camp Robinson. He had been
missing since May 3, according to
statements of camp officials.
According to an Associated Press
dispatch Friday, Private Schultz's
body was found in a sewer manhole
at the Arkansas camp. Besides
his parents he Is survived.by a brother,
Herbert, and five sisters, Mrs.
George Swift, Mrs. William Thompson,
Mrs. Truswell and Mrs. Flateau,
all of this city, and Mrs. Bennett, of
Cleveland, O.
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