SSgt Bennie Willems was Killed in Action during World War II.
Biography
Bernard was born in 1923. He passed away in 1945.
Sources
"United States Census, 1930," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X3C1-GHF : accessed 24 March 2018), Benny Williams in household of George Williams, Carson, Cottonwood, Minnesota, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 5, sheet 8A, line 25, family 133, NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 1084; FHL microfilm 2,340,819.
"United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KSKC-Q5L : accessed 24 March 2018), Bennie Willems in household of Katie Willems, Delft, Carson Township, Cottonwood, Minnesota, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 17-5, sheet 2A, line 32, family 32, Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940, NARA digital publication T627. Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790 - 2007, RG 29. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012, roll 1915.
"United States, Obituaries, American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1899-2012," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVSS-N4GG : 17 March 2018), Bennie Willems in entry for Katherine Enns Willems Klein, 16 Jun 1995; citing Obituary, in "Mt Lake Observer Advocate"; American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, Lincoln.
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