Local author Lisa Lark is working on a history book to further memorialize the Dearborn men and one woman who died in combat and are remembered on the City's War Memorial in front of the Henry Ford Centennial Library.  four wreaths at ceremony small

She is asking anyone who knows more about the fallen servicemen, especially those from World War I, World War II and the Korean War to contact her.  Lark is trying to gather biographical details and photographs of each of those listed on the memorial. The information she gathers will be included in a book, and some of the proceeds will be donated to veterans' causes.

Lark previously wrote a book "All They Left Behind" about service members from across the country who died in Vietnam.  That project started with Lark, a Dearborn teacher at the time, researching the Dearborn men who died in Vietnam and are remembered on the City's War Memorial.

Follow this link to contact Lark if you have information you would like to share about one of those people listed on the memorial.  She has also created a Facebook page called Dearborn Memorial Project with information about the project. 

 

Dearborn service members remembered on the War Memorial

World War I (one person)

  • Walter Blankertz

 

World War II (251 people)

  • Robert M. Alt
  • Herbert C. Anderson
  • Gerard C. Antaillia
  • Alphonse N. Assenmacher
  • George J. Backalukas
  • Walter B. Baumgartner
  • Amos B. Bell
  • Ewald Johannes Berg
  • Daniel D. Bersan
  • Edward A. Bielecki
  • Barney W. Biestek
  • Lloyd D. Bingham Jr.
  • Charles A. Blackburn
  • Donald A. Blavat
  • Russell Lee Bloom
  • Theodore J. Blouin
  • Zivo Bodroski
  • Rocco Boni
  • Leonard Bores
  • Herman Albert Breithaupt, Jr.
  • Emil Edward Bryda, Jr.
  • Clay U. Bullis
  • Robert L. Burry
  • Roman Butkowski
  • Welbee Bradley Butterfield
  • Roy F. Bye
  • Padraig Joseph Calnan
  • Alex T. Chaushoff
  • Roger William Christians
  • Darwin Dale Christie
  • Jack A. Clemente
  • Goffredo M. Colasante
  • Carl Edward Colwell
  • Raymond Francis Connell
  • Henry J. Connolly
  • Douglas R. Corbin
  • Theodore E. Crampton
  • Nunzio John Curcuru
  • Richard Walter Dalziel 
  • John Daugirda
  • Pasquale D'Elia
  • Walter Demusiak
  • John G. Dimitroff
  • John W. Dixon
  • Frank W. Dobry
  • James Dennis Donovan
  • Marlin P. Dorman
  • Stanley Drab
  • James R. Duff
  • Edward Earle
  • Charles D. Eilers
  • Donald H. Emerick
  • Marcus E. Esper
  • Donald E. Essenmacher
  • John Howard Evans
  • Richard W. Evans
  • Emil. A Fagnon
  • Harold H. Fargher
  • Douglas R. Farris
  • Jacob Faust
  • John P. Fenoglio
  • Gabriel Filiak
  • Edwin S. Filipczak
  • Henry H. Finnegan
  • Earl G. Fisher
  • Frank E. Fladzinski
  • Helen E. Fluckey
  • Gene H. Fortier
  • Kenneth P. Foust
  • Paul A. Foust
  • Jack Logan Freckleton
  • Robert L. French
  • Warren L. Fukalek
  • Dale E. Gardner
  • Wilfred C.Gary
  • George Gelles
  • Nicholas Genoa
  • Clyde Gero
  • Richard C. Gibson
  • Walter H. Gietka
  • Stephen Vincent Giltinan, Jr.
  • Robert Arthur Godfrey
  • George Goovers, Jr.
  • Jack C. Graham
  • Ralph E. Graves, Jr.
  • Ian M. Gray
  • Willis H. Guynn
  • Harold R. Haag
  • William D. Hagg
  • Benjamin T. Hadwin
  • Edwin F. Handzlik
  • Thomas L. Headley
  • Robert C. Hecht
  • Joseph S. Hegedus
  • Earl L. Helwig
  • James Victor Henderson
  • Norval Anthony Hessler
  • Robert J. Hix
  • Ralph S. Hostetler
  • Louis J. Huettman
  • Wendell Lee Jameson
  • Robert A. Johnson, Jr. 
  • William Nick Johnson
  • Raymond C. Jones
  • Robert S. Jones
  • Stanley P. Kabara
  • Charles C. Keele
  • Henry L. Keen
  • Walter F. Kielb
  • Robert L. Kirk, Jr.
  • Curtis A. Kirkwood
  • Archie Franklin Klein
  • Francis H. Klinger
  • Clair Emerson Koebbe
  • Harold F. Korte
  • Cyril C. Koshar
  • John A. Kovalcik
  • Lawrence E. Kronberg
  • William J. Krynen, Jr. 
  • Leo J. Kubinski
  • James Edward Laird
  • William Henry Leonard
  • Dominick Letizio, Jr. 
  • George E. Levagood
  • Melvin E. Lindgren
  • William R. Livermore
  • Campbell Loverix
  • William J. Lubaway, Jr. 
  • Burke Lyerla
  • William R. Mackay
  • Steve S. Macut
  • Alex J. Maezes
  • Eugene S. Majchrzak
  • Walter H. Malaniak
  • Eugene Gene Malish
  • Dominick J. Mancuso
  • Edward J. Marcyan
  • Anthony J. Mark
  • Donald Marvin Marks
  • Harry R. Martin, Jr. 
  • Marino Massetti
  • Frank E. Matuszewski
  • George L. Matosh
  • Gerald W. McDavid
  • Harry A. McDermott
  • Arthur H. Midworth
  • Edward Theodore Mieszczur
  • Karl Mikulski
  • George J. Miller
  • Harold Henry Miller, Jr.
  • William Albert Moench
  • John Carleton Moore
  • John R. Moore
  • Norman R. Mueller
  • Earl Muntean
  • D. Morris Murphy
  • Finnbarr Alphonsus Nagle
  • Norbert Joseph Natzman
  • Leonard Clements Nawrocki
  • Richard A. Neisler
  • Arthur Lionel Neuendorf
  • Miles Newell
  • Lewis C. Nolan
  • John Henry Noppe
  • Louis R. Norman
  • Harrison Keith Norwood
  • Herbert M. O'Leary
  • Joseph Olszewski, Jr.
  • Edward John Olsztyn
  • Michael Osipoff
  • Ernest C. Oz
  • Frank Alexander Pacion
  • Alvin E. Painter
  • John W. Paisley
  • Nicholas Panich
  • Donald G. Passage
  • Richard T. Patten
  • Kenneth C. Peck
  • Patsy A. Peller
  • John Ernest Platz
  • Leo W. Pokrywka
  • Lester Ponder
  • Robert Joseph Posler
  • John S. Potter
  • Evan W. Proffitt
  • Samuel V. Prokin
  • Oiva L. Pulkkinen
  • Joseph E. Pytel
  • Henry S. Rayca
  • George Henry Rayl
  • Everett N. Reede
  • August O. Renner, Jr. 
  • Kenneth S. Ross
  • Augustine Rotunda
  • Nelson J. Ryckman
  • Ernest Romanelli, Jr. 
  • Allie J. Said
  • Emil V. Sangeorzan
  • Edward Schudlo
  • Sammy M. Shakar
  • Gordon M. Shortness
  • Zigmund J. Sienkaniec
  • Lawrence Ray Siers
  • Ford F. Simonds
  • Charles Joseph Smith
  • Ozro J. Smith
  • Arnold Everett Soper
  • Thomas C. Sowden
  • Glen M. Staley
  • Wesson A. Stetson
  • Walter A. Stimach
  • Edward F. Stoll
  • Stanley William Stroud
  • Frederick D. Stuart
  • Jack C. Sullivan
  • James P. Sutherland, Jr.
  • Robert Alois Swantek
  • Paul Antonie Szabo, Jr.
  • Richard J. Teeple
  • Pete Terezakis
  • Henry R. Timm
  • Adolph A. Tomala
  • Byron Eugene Tower
  • John H. Tyler, Jr.
  • Silvio Valentini
  • Harold E. Valleau
  • Charles Wesley Vaughan
  • Charles R. Voorhess, Jr.
  • Alexander Wadowski, Jr.
  • Dean W. Wallace
  • Charles Hugh Walter
  • Harry Joseph Waskewicz
  • James Tweedale Wilson
  • William H. Wilson
  • Willard T. Williamson
  • Richard S. Winkler
  • Thomas A. Winnie
  • Edward Francis Wirick
  • Robert C. Wolfe
  • Harold W. Woltz
  • Robert Morley Woods, Jr.
  • Douglas Haig Wright
  • Richard E. Wroblewski 
  • Walter J. Wroblewski, Jr.
  • Harold F. Wurtz, Jr.
  • James J. Wykes
  • Paul W. Yonkin
  • Richard W. Zander
  • Walter C. Zatzer
  • Harry A. Zawacki
  • Aram Zazian

 

Korean War (26 people) 

  • William H. Alexander
  • Howard E. Ballentine
  • Lester W. Biggs
  • John William Brex
  • Damon K. Brown
  • Billie Roy Burkeen
  • Casimir M. Chrobak
  • Charles L. Dubas
  • Alexander Facchini
  • John E. Fox
  • David Clark Greene
  • Arthur E. Johnson, Jr.
  • Jack W. Johnson
  • John Frank Lapinski
  • Bernard Frederick McEvoy
  • Glenn D. Meyers
  • Jerome C. Nozicka
  • Lincoln R. Painter
  • Neil F. Peck
  • Donald Keith Plummer
  • Robert R. Spanberger
  • George Clarence Strong
  • Jerry M. Summitt
  • Robert W. Szwajkowski
  • Kenneth E. Wilcox
  • Eriks V. Zalcmanis 

 

Vietnam War (69 people) 

  • Richard M. Anderson
  • Tommie Ray Angel
  • David Antol
  • Edwin B. Bird
  • Robert J. Bonnici
  • Raymond J. Borowski
  • David C. Brannon
  • James B. Brock
  • David A. Brown
  • Jerry W. Clark
  • John F. Cochrane
  • Thomas B. Daily
  • James L. Davis
  • Randy E. Dillinder
  • Jay Cee Dyer
  • Michael J. Dziengowski
  • Paul D. Elwart
  • Gerald E. Emmons
  • James M. Fleming
  • Roger C. Foxworth
  • Henry J. Fugett
  • Larry L. Gambotto
  • Philip N. Gandolfo
  • Thomas H. Gentinne
  • Franklyn W. Germany
  • Charles L. Hanselman
  • Rodney Kent Harla
  • James S. Hath
  • James R. Hintz
  • Alan R. Hosnedle
  • James L. Huard
  • Rudolph S. Jackymack
  • Alan C. Kaartunen
  • Charles L. Karr
  • David R. Kowitz
  • Bradley J. Logan
  • Cecil D. McCann
  • Louis J. McCormick
  • Douglas S. McIlroy
  • Robert C. McKenna
  • James F. Morrow
  • Ralph T. Mueller
  • Thomas D. Naughton, Jr.
  • John A.J. Navarre
  • Michael A. Niezgoda
  • Robert Nozewski
  • Richard A. Paton
  • James B. Patterson
  • Michael R. Patterson
  • William C. Pearce, IV
  • Wilbert G. Pennell 
  • Mark E. Pietrzyk
  • Bruce M. Reynolds 
  • Mark Robertson
  • Donald A. Rowley 
  • William A. Schmaltz, III
  • George C. Siegwald, II
  • David L. Smith
  • Earl Smith 
  • Ronald Smith 
  • Stuart G. Snell 
  • Dennis C. Stancroff 
  • James E. Stubblefield 
  • David W. Terwilliger 
  • Gary L. Tinker 
  • Charles R. Trescott  
  • Michael J. Troyan, Jr.
  • John C. Wells 
  • Robert W. Yokom, Jr.