Fred Benson Standerford
Kentucky Post and Times Star, Monday, 5 January 1959, page 2
VETERAN-Services for Fred B Standerford, 70, of 1004 Washington Avenue, Newport, will be held at 2 pm Wednesday at the Dobbling Funeral Home, Bellevue. Burial will be in Evergreen Cemetery. Mr. Standerford, retired dry cleaner, died Sunday night at his home. A veteran of World War I, he was a member of James Wallace Costigan Post, American Legion and Rankin-Prout-Carius Post, Veterans of Foreign Wars, both of Newport.
He leaves his widow, Mrs. Mabel Standerford. He was also a member of Kentucky Rose Lodge No 2, Herdsman, Newport. Members of James Wallace Costigan Post will meet for services at 7:30 Tuesday at the funeral home.
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The following information comes from the book Polar Bear Expedition to Northern Russia 1918-1919 by Jim Columbia
Pfc. Fred Benson Standerford was living in Detroit at the time he enlisted at Camp Custer on 20 Nov 1917. He had married Mable Harker, formerly of Newport, in Detroit the day before enlisting. After the war, the couple came to Newport where they resided for the remainder of Standerford's life. Standerford worked various jobs, but in 1940 received an appointment as a "Veteran Graves Inspector" recording the graves of all veterans in Campbell County. His wife was also very active in veterans issues.