Caroline Poweleit
Kentucky Post, Monday, 20 October 1947, page 1
Submitted by Carol Sanman 21 April 2020
MOTHER OF LOCAL WAR HERO TAKEN
Services for Mrs. Caroline Poweleit, 63, mother of Dr. Alvin Poweleit, one of northern Kentucky’s outstanding World War II heroes, will be held at the Fred A. Erschell and Son Funeral home, Newport, at 2 p.m. Tuesday. Burial will be in Evergreen Cemetery.
Mrs. Poweleit died Saturday at her home, 621 E. Fourth street, Newport.
Her famous son, now a practicing physician at
Louisville, was a survivor of the infamous Bataan “death march” and 40 months
imprisonment by the Japanese. He rose to the rank of lieutenant-colonel in the
Medical Corps, and recently was awarded the Legion of Merit for the “outstanding
aid” to bombing victims on Bataan.
Besides Dr. Poweleit, she leaves two other sons, Leroy, Dayton; and Arthur
Poweleit, Cold Spring; two daughters, Mrs. Anna Maschinot, Newport; and Mrs.
Edith Hobbs, Dayton; her mother, Mrs. Caroline Yutze, Dayton; five sisters, Mrs.
Anna Sickmeier, Mrs. Clara Kratzmeier, Mrs. Katherin Arzt, Mrs. Marie Goetz and
Mrs. Elizabeth Brightfield, all of Newport; two brothers, Louis and Charles
Yutze, Newport, and three grandchildren.