| Notes |
- Niagara Gazette - 5/12/1949
NORTH TONAWANDA, May 12-
son of Wasil Ababurko, 100 Slmson
son ow Wasll Ababurko, 100 Simson
street, will arrive here tomorrow for
reburlal. He died from wounds received
while fighting in Belgium
with the Moth Glider Infantry Regiment.
September 18. 1844.
Besides his parents, he is survived
by a brother, Stephen Aba-
burko, Tonawanda, and a sister,
Mrs. Helen Wasanko. Niagara Falls.
Funeral services will be held Saturday
at 8:30 o'clock from the
Pawenskl funeral home, 653 Oliver .
street, and at 9 o'clock at Ascension
church. The Rev, Francis J, Hunt
will officiate and Interment will be
in st. Francis cemetery with full
military honors. Stephen Sikora
Post, American Legion will be in
charge.
ALSO
North Tonawanda NY Evening News - 5/9/1949
The body of Pvt. Walter
Ababurko, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Wasil Ababurko of ISO
Simson St.. Is being returned
to the United States aboard
the U.8. Army transport Haiti
Victory, the Department of the
Army announced today.
Pvt Ababurko died Oct. 16,
1944, of wounds received Sept.
22, 1944. He was struck by 88
millimeter shell fragments
while serving with an infantry
division in Belgium.
The Haiti Victory is carrying
the bodies of 5328 Americans
who lost their lives in
World War II and were originaUy
buried in temporary
cemeteries in Holland and
Belgium.
|
- 1944