MILITARY SERVICE FOR WAR HERO

Private Eugene Donald Fauts, son of Helen and Donald Fauts, was born in Omaha, Nebraska on the 24th day of January, 1926. He was baptized on the 18th of July, the same year, by the Rev. Paul Spehr, of Christ Lutheran Church in Wisner. He was confirmed in the First English Lutheran Church of Omaha in the year 1940 under the Rev. Berhenke.

The early years of his life were spent in Wisner, where he made his home with his grandmother, Mrs. Anna Fritten, and where he attended the Wisner schools. Later he moved to Omaha, where he completed his education at the Technical High School.

The family later moved to Nashville, Tennessee. There he enlisted in the U.S. Marines. His basic training he received at Paris Island, North Carolina. Six weeks after his enlistment, he was sent overseas to New Zealand, and from there he was sent with the Second Marines to the ill-fated Island of Tarawa, where with his comrades, he made the supreme sacrifice on November 20, 1943.

He leaves to mourn his passing his mother, Mrs. Helen Crenshaw, of Fort Calhoun, Nebraska, his grandmothers, Mrs. Anna Fritten, of Wisner, and Mrs. T.G. Fauts, of Bremerton, Washington, besides a host of other relatives and friends.

Private Fauts was escorted to his final resting place from Christ Lutheran Church last Tuesday afternoon, November 4, at 2 o’clock

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

Note: tombstone spelling is Fouts; there is a photo on his FindaGrave memorial

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