Individual Details
Donald Rickels
(9 Oct 1917 - 12 May 1980)
Events
| Birth | 9 Oct 1917 | Wayne Township, Jones, Iowa, United States |  | ||
| Military | 1945 |  | | ||
| Death | 12 May 1980 |
Families
| Father | Johann Hermann "John" Rickels (1885 - 1975) |
| Mother | Wilhelmine Elise "Minnie" Collman (1889 - 1965) |
| Sibling | Living |
Notes
Military
Rickels HomeDonald Rickels, seaman 1/c, arrived home for a 9 day furlough on Wednesday Feb. 21, to visit his wife, parents and other relatives He is serving on the aircraf t carrier Manila Bay. His ship saw heaviest combat near Leyte, in the Philippines.
Endnotes
1. Jones Co. Iowa Census, Jones Co. Iowa GenWeb online [http://iowajones.org/census/census.htm], accessed.
2. "Iowa, County Births, 1880-1935," index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org: accessed 9 July 2014), J H Rickels in entry for Donald William Rickels, 09 Oct 1917; citing , Wayne Township, Jones, Iowa, United States.
3. "Rickels home," Monticello (Iowa) Express, 1 March 1945; Ross & Elizabeth Baty Public Library (http://batypl.newspaperarchive.com : accessed 25 February 2011), Newspaper Digital Archives.