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Gilbert R. Kassel
Serial Number: 37180299
Race: White
State: Missouri
Service: UNITED STATES ARMY
Corps: INFANTRY
Rank: PRIVATE
Capture: SEP 30 1944
Capture Area: GERMANY
Camp Name: STALAG 2B,
City served by Camp: HAMMERSTEIN,
Camp Reg: WEST PRUSSIA
Camp Country: GERMANY
Detail: GERMANY
POW Status: LIBERATED
Closed: MAY 23 1945
Gilbert is buried at Calvary Cemetery with other family members:
Name Grave Burial Date Age
Louis Kassel grave 1 1/31/1929 age: 42
Mary Kassell grave 2 12/14/1929 age: 60
Charles Kassel grave 3 1/15/1944 age: 79
Ellen Kassel grave 4 11/5/1964 age: 61
Patrick Charles Kassel grave 7 7/16/1974 age: 74
William J. Kassel grave 8 2/20/1976 age: 78
Gilbert R. Kassel grave 9 8/13/1977 age: 69
Margaret C Kassel grave 9 9/28/1976 age: 67
Elmer Tobin grave 5 10/6/1967
Dorothy Tobin grave 6 12/28/1970
Lot owned by Mary Kassel
St. Louis Post Dispatch 1944: Kassel, (PFC) Gilbert R. [MIA] #10/31 p9A,
(photo) #11/1 p12A Pfc. Gilbert R. Kassel, 33, a member of a tank division
has been missing in action in Luxembourg since Sept 30. He is the brother
of Mrs. Mary Creamer, 2701 Howard St.
Other obit information on this family:
Kassel, Charles A. 1944: 1/12, *1/14 obit: Tuesday Jan 11, 1944 6:30 a.m.
husband of the late Mary Kassel dear father of Edward, Fred, William,
Patrick, PFC Gilbert Kassel, Mary Creamer and Dorothy Tobin. Dear brother,
father in law, grandfather and great grandfather, Mr. Kassel will lie in
state in Street & Carroll Funeral Home 4600 Natural Bridge until Friday Jan
14, 5:30 pm. Funeral from Little Sisters, 3225 N. Florissant, Saturday, Jan
15, 9:30 a.m. Internment Calvary Cemetery. burial permit: Charles A. Kassel,
79, 3225 N. Florissant.
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