Help Is Needed Matching Veterans To Their Branches

​Every year on Memorial Day, the VFW Auxiliary places flags over the graves of veterans buried in the Bloomfield Cemetery. With Memorial Day fast approaching, Joe Skrivan is reaching out to the public.

The Auxiliary uses a list of veterans’ names to place these flags each year. Skrivan has taken the names from this list and has made it his mission to find out which branch every veteran belonged to. He is asking for the public’s help. 

“What is needed is the branch of service that they served in if there are any family members or friends who knew them,” Skrivan said.

His goal is to match as many names to a branch as possible so the branch may be put next to their names on the future Bloomfield Veterans Memorial. If there are veterans whose branch still remains a mystery, Skrivan will place their name on the memorial with Military in place of their branch of service.

If anyone has this information, please contact Joe Skrivan, PO Box 367, Bloomfield NE 68718 or e-mail bmonitor@yahoo.com or phone 402-841-1027 or 373-2330 and leave message. 

The following is a list of names who need a branch of service:
​Barber, Romaine
Beach, Henry
Bellis, Wilbert
Busskohl, Raymond
Dowty, Patrick
Glanzman, Marion
Bruder, Loren
Cahoon, Sherill
Joslin, Steven
McDonald, Paul
Bruder, Wylie
Clausen, Duane
Eckmann, Herbert
Fleming, Lowell
Hollister, Eugene
Knutson, Keith
Koehler, Milford
Lukens, William
McDonald, Paul
Rogers, Wesley
Schlautman, Robert
Voss, ARobert
Altieri, Albert
Bergen, Don
Bratetic, Frank
Bruegman, Robert
Chisham, Neil
Clark, Marvin
Claussen, Gerhard
Clausen, Harold
Clausen, Harry
Clausen, Raymond
Clinkenbeard, Willie
Copper, Max
Chisham, Neil
Crosley, Elizabeth
Drosz, Casimir
Engel, Walter
Engel, Wilbur
Foger, Duard
Frerichs, Laurence
Friedenbach, Laurence
Green, Louis
Griffith, Evan
Halverson, Harlan
Hedman, John
Joy, Terrance
Kinnew, Duane
Klingforth, Raymond
Kolls, Rudolph
Larson, Clarence
Liddell, Forrest
Menkens, Carl
Nelson, Forrest
Obert, Lyle
Petersen, Ralph
Prescott, Richard
Pulse, Harold
Rose, Wayne
Schuett, Dale
Schulz, Ray
Vlcan, Vencil
Ballad, Leland
Bauerly, Albert
Claussen, Amos
Copeland, James
Cram, Francis
Depue, Ray
Doering, JamesEisenhauer, Fred
Frevert, Carl
Frevert, Clifton
Glanzman, Marvin
Hadman, J
Halsey, Harriet
High, Ralph
Hofeldt, Rhuf
Langemeier, James
Lukens, Doyle
Luellman, Charles
Mettlen, Dr. J. Harvey
Moehlenhoff, Herman
Peters, Ernest
Prescott, C. H.
Reynolds, Charles
Schlote, Ray
Schnecky, Eliz
Schwartz, Carl
Siegler, Ingraham
Storjohann, Herman
Tucker, S. W.
Watters, Anna
Wegner, Donald
Yeager, Charles