Melbourne "Mel" Henry Mouw - 540th Eng

[Walt's Daughter]

Found the info below that was listed on a genealogy site. Contacted the webmaster but he has no futher info on this man. Maybe someone from his family will see it and contact me in the future. You never know and it's always worth a shot.

 

Melborne "Mel" Henry Mouw was born on November 4, 1910 in Holland, Michigan, the son of Henry and Grace (DeWeerd) Mouw and died at age 89, on Friday, October 27, 2000. He worked at the Orin B. Hayes Oldsmobile dealership in sales and service for 31 years. Mel was a decorated Veteran of WW II, assigned to the 540th Engineers, serving with both the Third and Seventh Armies. He was awarded 7 Bronze Stars, and 1 Bronze Arrowhead. He served in Africa, Algeria-French Morocco, Sicily, Naples, Foggia Rome, Southern France, Rhineland and Central Europe as well as Anzio Beach. He was a member of the American Legion Post 475 and a lifetime member of the VFW. He was survived by his daughter Alice of Zion, Illinois, sons John of Dade City, Florida and Michael of Galesburg. Mel was buried in Mt. Everest Cemetery with full military graveside honors provided by American Legion Post 475 (an abbreviated transcription of his obituary from the Kalamazoo Gazette, contributed by Marie Mackey).

[Marion the admin]

The photo that was recently sent to me by Willie (the motorpool with my dad and his dad) has a gentleman named Mouw in it. Odds are this is the gentleman. Mouw is not that common a name. Very interesting. Small, small world huh?

[Walt's Daughter]

Just wrote to the American Legion Hall that was named above. I asked if they could give me any info on their life-long member, Mr. Mouw or if they had contact with the surviving members of the family. Hopefully I will hear something back. You know me, always grabbing onto any leads I can get!