Name: Ray W. Scheibe

Birth Date: 1930 Birth City: Greeley State Registered: Nebraska

Death Date: 2 June 1953 Death Country: Korea

Death Description: Killed in Action War: Korean War

Title: CORPORAL, U.S. Army Rank: Corporal

Service: U.S. Army Service ID: 55250654

Notes: Corporal Scheibe was a member of the 65th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Infantry Division. He was Killed in Action while fighting the enemy in North Korea on June 2, 1953. Corporal Scheibe was awarded the Purple Heart, the Combat Infantryman’s Badge, the Korean Service Medal, the United Nations Service Medal, the National Defense Service Medal and the Republic of Korea War Service Medal

Data Source: Korean War Veterans Honor Roll

U.S. Veterans Gravesites, ca. 1775-2006; Ancestry.com

Name: Ray W Scheibe Service Info.: CPL US ARMY KOREA

Birth date: 5 Nov 1930 Death Date: 2 June 1953

Cemetery: Wolbach Cemetery Cemetery Address: Wolbach, NE 6882

Note: 1930 Federal Census shows father’s name as Reinhard W Scheibe, living at Logan, Greeley, Nebraska; mother Laura; brothers as Wayne J; Arnold D; Leonard A

~~~ Obituary courtesy of the Washington County Genealogical Society. Newspaper clippings on file in the Blair Public Library at Blair, Nebraska.~~~