CEDAR COUNTY, NEBRASKA - CRAIG George H.

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GEORGE H. CRAIG

Sgt. F.C. George Craig was born March 31, 1924 on a farm near Coleridge.

At the age of seven years he came to Magnet to make his home with the Floyd 
Dawson’s. He received his first 12 years of schooling in Magnet where he 
graduated with the class of 1942. He then attended Wayne State Teachers College 
for three years.

He was principal of the Magnet school in the year of 1946 and the following 
year he returned to college. In 1948 he was again a teacher in Magnet.

On November 28th, 1949 he enlisted in the army and was stationed at Fort Riley 
in Kansas. On May 9th, 1951 he was sent over seas where he spent 10 months in 
the Korean area. He returned to the states on March 20th, 1952. Since then he 
has been stationed at Fort Knox, Kentucky and Fort Bragg, N. Carolina and at 
the time of his death he was returning to Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana for 
a nine week special training.

He leaves to mourn his passing his foster parents, Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Dawson 
and foster brother Dan, his mother Gertrude Obermeyer and her family of Laurel, 
three half brothers Tom of Coleridge, Aura of Randolph and Alton somewhere in 
Germany and a host of friends.

Funeral services were held Sunday in the Methodist church in Magnet at 2:00 
with Rev. Duane Lenze of DeBois, Nebraska, officiating. Burial was made in the 
Magnet Cemetery.

The Wausa Veterans of Foreign Wars had charge of the Military Services under the 
direction of Commander, Alvin Thierolf.