Birth: May 24, 1923
Death: February 20, 1944
Location: Lot 15, Section 5, Outside the Old Cemetery
Grand Island Daily Independent Wednesday 21 July 1948
Pvt. Burmood’s Rites to Be Held At Wood River
body Expected to Arrive Friday: Funeral Sunday
Wood River, Neb., July 21 — Funeral services for Pvt. alfred A. Burmood, soldier killed Feb. 20, 1944, in the fighting for Anzio Beach in Italy, will be held Sunday afternoon at 2:30 o’clock in the Presbyterian church in Wood River. The body will arrive in Wood River Friday, accompanied by a military escort.
Rites will be conducted Sunday by Rev. Keith Delap, pastor of the Presbyterian church at Wood River. burial will be in the Wood River cemetery.
Pvt. Burmood was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Will Burmood, former Wood River residents, now living in Los Angeles, Cal.
He was born May 24, 1923, on his parent’s farm five miles southwest of Wood River. He attended elementary school in district 27, finished his grade school education at Baldwin Park, Cal., and returned to Wood River in 1937 to attend high school. “Bus” as he was known to his schoolmates, was graduated from Wood River High school with the class of 1941.
He was a member of the Presbyterian church at Wood River and was secretary of the Sunday school for four years. In 1942 he went to California with his parents, but returned later to work in the Cornhusker Ordinance plant west of Grand Island.
He was inducted into the army on Mar. 16, 1943. He was sent first to fort Douglas, Utah, and later to Camp Walters, Tex., and a post in Pennsylvania. He left the States Aug. 2, 1943, for overseas duty and landed in North Africa on the day that the invasion of Italy began. He was in company C, 179th infantry, 46th division. Only a few of his company survived the battle for Anzio Beach. His parents notified in April, 1944, that he was missing in action on Feb 20, received information later from the war department that he was dead.
Survivors include his parents, three brothers, Chester and Virgil Burmood, both of Los Angeles, and Raymond Burmood, Wood River; and four sisters, Mrs. Robert Dibbern, Los Angeles, Mrs. Ernest Whisenand, Giltner,, Mrs. Harold Powers, wood River, and Mrs. Beulah Tibbs, Gridley, Calif.