Donald Adrian Lashomb

 1918 Watertown, New York – 1945 France

 

 

Continuation of tree (3rd child of Victor Alfred Lajambe/2nd Wife Mabel Devendorf); all known surname descendants:

                9             Donald Adrian Lashomb  b: 8 January 1918  Watertown, Jefferson, NY; d: 15 January 1945  France (WWII)

                                      +Mary C. Robertson  b: 4 February 1915  Edinburgh, Scotland; m: 22 September 1941  St. Paul's Episcopal, Watertown, Jefferson, NY  [Alexander/Mary McCraw]; d: 22 February 2009  Watertown, Jefferson, NY

 

  

Notes for Donald A. Lashomb:

WWII Records:  Donald Adrian Lashomb, res. 877 Mill, Watertown, NY; b. 8 Jan 1918 Watertown, NY; mother Mrs. Mabel E. Lashomb (same address); 5'10", 160 lbs., blue eyes & brown hair, light complexion; 16 Oct 1940 Watertown, NY.

 

Obituary:  Syracuse Herald Journal, Tuesday, 27 April 1948 - Watertown - The body of Corp. Donald A. Lashomb, 27, formerly of 877 Mill st., who was killed in action on Jan. 15, 1945, in France, will arrive here tomorrow afternoon on the 4:50 train from the U.S. Army's general distribution center in Schenectady.  Funeral services will be held from the Northern & Fox funeral home on Friday at 2 P.M. and at 2:30 from the St. Paul's Episcopal Church.  The Rev. John R. Bill, rector, will officiate.  Burial will take place at North Watertown Cemetery.  Full military honors will be accorded.  The casket will be flag draped.  A firing squad and bugler will fire the customary farewell salute and sound taps at the grave.  Corp. Lashomb, a tank gunner in the 14th Armored Division, was killed instantly in France when his command tank slipped over the shoulder of the road into a ditch and struck some land mines during the Battle of Hatten.  He was a native of this city.

 

Notes for Mary C. Robertson:

Obituary:  Watertown Daily Times:  (photo only) Mary C. Robertson Lashomb: 4 Feb 1915 Edinburgh, Scotland – 22 Feb 2009 Watertown, NY - There will be no funeral or calling hours for Mary C. Lashomb, 94, formerly of 10414 Duck Harbor Road.  Mrs. Lashomb died Sunday February 22, 2009 at Samaritan Keep Home, Watertown, where she had been a resident since Jan. 12.  A spring graveside service with military honors will be in North Watertown Cemetery.  Arrangements are with Hart & Bruce Funeral Home, Watertown.  Mrs. Lashomb was a nurse at Memorial Hospital, Easton, Md.  She returned to Watertown in 1953 and worked at the former Mercy Hospital for nine months.  Born Feb. 4, 1915, in Edinburgh, Scotland, daughter of Alexander and Mary McCraw Robertson, she moved to the U.S. in 1925, attended local schools and graduated from Watertown High School.  She married Donald A. Lashomb on Sept. 22, 1941, at St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Watertown.  She became a registered nurse after receiving news of her husband's death in 1945, killed in action while he was serving in the Army in France during World War II.  On March 14, 1954, she entered the Army Nurses Corps and served in Okinawa, Japan, and Germany.  She was honorably discharged in 1974 as a lieutenant colonel and received the National Defense Service Medal.  Mrs. Lashomb was a member of St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Watertown.  She enjoyed her home on Duck Harbor, reading, cooking and the four years she was a resident at Angel's Inn, Watertown.  Among her survivors are her caregivers, a niece and her husband, Kristine M. and James A. Wanamaker, Watertown, and several other nieces, nephews, great-nieces, great-nephews, great-great-nieces and great-great-nephews.  Five sisters, Alexandra "Alexa" Trainham, Isabella Robertson, Agnes "Nancy" Thompson, Margaret "Peggy" Kelly and Pauline Robertson, and two brothers, James and Alexander Robertson, died before her.  Donations may be made to the Alzheimer's Association of Central New York-Jefferson County, Watertown, N.Y.
 

 

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