Military Services for Pvt, Charles Robinson to Be Held This Afternoon At Eden Lutheran Church
Final tabs will be sounded at 1:30 this afternoon at the Eden Lutheran Church for Pvt. Charles Gilmore Robinson who died in a Japanese prison camp May 8, 1942, after participating in the infamous Bataan death march. The Hudson American Legion and V.F.W. will have charge of the military service.
Private Robinson was a son of Mr. and Mrs. Will Robinson who reside 6 miles north and 1 mile east of Haywarden. Among the honors presented to the soldier were the Purple Heart and the Citation of Honor in the air force. He and others in the Bataan March were cited by the president.
He was born February 23, 1919, in Hawarden and was baptized and confirmed at the Eden Lutheran church. He graduated from Hudson high school in 1937.
Pvt. Robinson was sent to the Philippines November 1, 1941. The last word received from him was from Manila Oct. 22. He was reported missing in action as of August, 1942. Two years later he was listed as presumably dead.
In September of 1945 his parents were informed that he died in a prison camp for malaria and May 8, 1942.
Survivors include: the parents; three sisters, Velda Groth of Fairview, S.D., Betty Gubrud of Hudson and Doris Moore of Columbus, Ohio; three brothers, Frank at Mt. Vernon, S.D., Bernard at Salisbury, Md., and Robert at home, and his grandfather, C.A. Robinson.
The body arrived by train in Hawarden late yesterday afternoon.