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.

 

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