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Submitted: 11/16/20 • Approved: 11/19/20 • Last Updated: 11/22/20 • R1350959-G0-S3
Arkansas
TECHNICAL FIFTH CLASS US Army
817 Chemical Company
World War II
April 8, 1923 - May 14, 1954
*Obituary
Published in the Blytheville Courier News, Blytheville, AR, May 1954
Services for Donnie Dale Austin, 31, of Blytheville, who died at the Little Rock Veterans Hospital yesterday after a five-month illness, will be conducted tomorrow at 2 p.m. at the Full Gospel Tabernacle by the Rev. M. D. Mabry. Burial will be in Elmwood Cemetery with Cobb Funeral Home in charge.
Mr. Austin was born in Blytheville and lived here most of his life.
He is survived by his parents, Stephen Lafayette Austin and Cora Myrtle (Keith) Austin; two brothers, Conley Fay Austin and William Larkin (Bill) Austin, both of Blytheville; and a sister, Mrs. Seminola (Austin) Gordon of Chicago, Illinois.
He was a World War II Veteran. He had never married. He was a baker by trade. He had leukemia but death was caused by a hemorrhage of the brain.
Contributed on 11/16/20 by eagle12953
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