Cecil Frank Munsey^{[1, 2]}

1919 - 1944  (24 years)

• Name	Cecil Frank Munsey
  Birth	18 Nov 1919	Bradshaw, McDowell County, West Virginia, USA   [1, 3]
  Gender	Male
  Education	grammar school;7th grade
  _UID	1F060F30AC1D4DF38FD4E2E6972DAEA8B25D
  Death	12 Jun 1944	France   [3]
  	Killed in action WW II
  Burial	6 Jun 1948	Bluefield, Mercer County, West Virginia, USA   [3]
  	Monte Vista Park Cemetery
  Person ID	I8846	Francis Muncy Descendants
  Last Modified	13 Feb 2019

  
  

  Father	Frank Munsey,   b. 5 Jun 1890, Bradshaw, McDowell County, West Virginia, USA d. 28 Mar 1924, Yukon, McDowell, West Virginia, USA (Age 33 years)
  Mother	Matilda J. (Tilda) Payne
  Marriage	1909	McDowell County, West Virginia, USA
  _UID	594B514FDA66415EA44251F3AB91069A2970
  Family ID	F6347	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map		Birth - 18 Nov 1919 - Bradshaw, McDowell County, West Virginia, USA Death - 12 Jun 1944 - France Burial - 6 Jun 1948 - Bluefield, Mercer County, West Virginia, USA  = Link to Google Earth
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• Photos

  Munsey, Cecil F.

  
  

• Notes

  Find A Grave Memorial #99284769 Last Rites Set Funeral services will be conducted Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock at the Hawkins Funeral home chapel for Pfc. Cecil F. Munsey, son of Mrs. Matilda Munsey, 102 Pearis street, who was killed in action on June 12, 1944. Services will be conducted by Walter Claytor of Gary. The body arrived Wednesday morning from overseas and was taken to the Hawkins establishment. Private Munsey enlisted in the armed forces on November 18, 1941, and served in the 115th infantry, 29 division. He had been overseas 18 months when he was killed in France. He was born at Bradshaw on November 18, 1919, and received his education in the Bluefiled schools. He is survived by his mother, and thee sisters: Mrs. Ethel Marks, Mrs. Frances Edwards and Mrs. Edna Jarrett, all of Bluefield. His father, Frank Munsey, preceded him in death. Re-interment will be in Monte Vista Park cemetery, where the American Legion will have complete charge of the military funeral. Private Munsey served in the famed 29th division, which originated in New York. Just recently his mother received a letter from Mayor William O'Dwyer of New York, expressing sympathy in the death of her son. (Bluefield Daily Telegraph, Bluefield, WV, Sunday, June 06, 1948, p. 18, Col. 2)

  
  

• Sources

  [S779] U.S. WWII Draft Cards Young Men, 1940-1947. [S883] 1920 McDowell Co., Virginia Federal Census. [S212] Ancestry.com, U.S., Headstone Applications for Military Veterans, 1925-1963, (Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.).