Re-Burial Rites For Pvt.
Floyd Yuill Sunday
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Re-burial services for Pvt. Floyd W. Yuill will be held at the Haynes Presbyterian Church at 2:00 p. m. Sunday, August 7. The remains will arrive in Harrisville by train Friday morning and will be at the Smith Funeral Home in Lincoln until the hour of service.
Military services will be conducted by the V. F. W. and American Legion Posts. Rev. Howard A. Webster will officiate at the Church service and interment will take place in Mt. Joy Cemetery.
Obituary
Pvt. Yuill was born in Haynes on April 14, 1915. He grew to manhood in Haynes attending the rural school there. He later was employed in Flint. He married Leona Slater in October 1939 in Alpena. On March 23, 1944 he entered army service and was assigned duty in the European Theatre of Operations. He was killed in action on December 9, 1944 in France. A letter to his father, Mungo P. Yuill, from the war Department received in June, 1949, states:
"The casualty message received from the Commanding General of the European Theater of Operations stated only that you son, Private Floyd W. Yuill, Army serial number 36 959 148, Infantry, was killed in action 9 December 1944. Additional information has now been received which confirms this report and shows that death occurred at Bischwiller, France as the result of shell fragment wounds of the chest. At the time of death he was serving as a member of Company B, 313th Infantry Regiment 79th, Infantry Division, which was assigned to the seventh Army and commanded by Major General A. M. Patch."
Surviving relatives are his window, Leona Slater Yuill, who is now Mrs. Robert Fink of Haynes, a daughter Rose Anne Yuill, aged 9, his father, Mungo P. Yuill, and brother Howard Yuill, all of Haynes.