Individual Details

Daily American Republic, Poplar Bluff, Missouri, Friday, January 14, 1949, Front Page, Col. 4: Virgil Hosfelt Is Killed in Truck Accident. Virgil R. Hosfelt, 22, son of Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Hosfelt of Rombauer, was killed Wednesday night when the bed of a dump truck he was driving fell on his head at the plant of the Alton Box Board Co. in Alton, Ill. Officials of the company said young Hosfelt was inspecting the drive shaft of the truck when the bed fell. He was the brother of Pfc. Vernon Hosfelt who died in India*, and whose body was reburied at Rombauer Sunday. The soldier also was 22 at the time of his death.

* should be Italy.

Birth	2 Jun 1926	Butler Co., Missouri
Death	12 Jan 1949	Alton, Madison Co., Illinois
Burial		Rombauer, Butler Co., Missouri

Father	Clyde Rudolphus Hosfelt (1892 - 1968)
Mother	Nora Lee Ham (1898 - 1973)
Sibling	Ellen Easter Lilly Hosfelt (1916 - 2008)
Sibling	Kathaleen Gertrude Hosfelt (1919 - 1995)
Sibling	Wanda Hosfelt ( - )
Sibling	Vernon H Hosfelt (1921 - 1944)
Sibling	Neoma May Hosfelt (1923 - 1924)
Sibling	Bobby Eugene Hosfelt (1930 - 2007)
Sibling	Sylvia S Hosfelt (1940 - 2008)
Sibling	Shirley Hosfelt ( - )