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1LT Richard Milton Fletcher

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1LT Richard Milton Fletcher Veteran

Birth
Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, USA
Death
27 Apr 1943 (aged 25)
Tennessee, USA
Burial
Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, USA Add to Map
Plot
I_17_16_3_N2
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First Lieutenant Richard M. Fletcher, 25, native and lifelong resident of Salt Lake City, and a son of Mrs. Erma Snow Fletcher, was killed Tuesday in an automobile accident while on army maneuvers near Nashville, Tenn, his mother was informed Wednesday.
Lieutenant Fletcher, a graduate of South High School and the University of Utah, was active in R O T C at the university and was commissioned a second lieutenant in the army reserve corps in June, 1940. He was called to active duty in January 1941.
He was born in Salt Lake city on September 18, 1917 a son of Milton P. and Erma Snow Fletcher. Surviving, in addition to his mother, are his widow, Mrs. Wanda Jones Fletcher, a native Salt Laker, who is living at Nashville, Tenn; a four month old son, Richard Brent Fletcher, and a brother, Kenneth S. Fletcher, an aviation cadet in training at Santa Ana, Cal.

Slat Lake Tribune (UT) April 29, 1943
First Lieutenant Richard M. Fletcher, 25, native and lifelong resident of Salt Lake City, and a son of Mrs. Erma Snow Fletcher, was killed Tuesday in an automobile accident while on army maneuvers near Nashville, Tenn, his mother was informed Wednesday.
Lieutenant Fletcher, a graduate of South High School and the University of Utah, was active in R O T C at the university and was commissioned a second lieutenant in the army reserve corps in June, 1940. He was called to active duty in January 1941.
He was born in Salt Lake city on September 18, 1917 a son of Milton P. and Erma Snow Fletcher. Surviving, in addition to his mother, are his widow, Mrs. Wanda Jones Fletcher, a native Salt Laker, who is living at Nashville, Tenn; a four month old son, Richard Brent Fletcher, and a brother, Kenneth S. Fletcher, an aviation cadet in training at Santa Ana, Cal.

Slat Lake Tribune (UT) April 29, 1943



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