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| UNIT:
2nd Battalion, 9th Regiment, 3rd
Division, U.S.M.C. |
| RANK:
Private |
| BORN:
January 28, 1920 |
| WHERE:
Collinsville, Madison Co., IL |
| DIED:
March 15, 1945 |
| WHERE:
Iwo Jima |
| CAUSE
OF DEATH: Killed in Action at Iwo
Jima |
| BURIED:
St. John Cemetery - Collinsville,
IL |
| MARKER:
Military Marker |
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| Marine Private
William Savage, husband of Mrs. Fern McManus
Savage, 430 North Morrison Ave., and son of Mr.
and Mrs. J.A. Savage, 427 North Clinton Street,
has been killed in action on Iwo Jima on March
16, according to a wire received by relatives on
Monday morning. Pvt. Savage was twenty-five years
old at the time of his death, having been born
here on January 28, 1920. He attended the public
schools in this city, and graduated from CTHS in
1937. On May 26, 1940, he married Miss Fern
McManus of Ziegler, Illinois, and they have one
child, Billy Joe, three years old.
 Savage joined the Marines
in June 1944 and trained at San Diego and Camp
Pendleton, Ocean Side, California. He went
overseas in November, and was on Guam, although
his family is not sure for how long or where he
went after that time. Before his induction he was
employed at the General Chemical Company.
Besides his wife
and child, he is survived by his parents, three
sisters, Mrs. Myrtle Seipp, Mrs. Anna Lotz, both
of Collinsville, and Miss Julia Savage of East
St. Louis, three brothers, John Savage,
Collinsville, James Arthur Jr., on the U.S.S.
Bunker Hill with the Navy and Thomas Savage, with
the Army in Holland.
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Pvt. Bill
Savage
