January 30, 2025 • 19 mins
Donald Dean Eberling of Nashua Iowa served in the 45th Infantry Division, 179th Infantry Regiment. He joined the 179th as they began their march towards Munich and was part of the liberation of Dachau.
During WW2 women were deployed throughout Europe and the Pacific and their only means to communicate home was through letters, handwritten notes to assure those at home they were alright and waiting for letters from their loved ones to provide semblance of support and normalcy. Over the years I have collected letters with the intention of returning to family - but first I’d like to share who these men were, where were they from and the context of where the soldiers were and what role they played in the War.
Please sit back and get to know these members of the greatest generation. Please visit me on Facebook, or email me at warandfamily@outlook.com and help me get the letters home
Thank you for listening!
During WW2 women were deployed throughout Europe and the Pacific and their only means to communicate home was through letters, handwritten notes to assure those at home they were alright and waiting for letters from their loved ones to provide semblance of support and normalcy. Over the years I have collected letters with the intention of returning to family - but first I’d like to share who these men were, where were they from and the context of where the soldiers were and what role they played in the War.
Please sit back and get to know these members of the greatest generation. Please visit me on Facebook, or email me at warandfamily@outlook.com and help me get the letters home
Thank you for listening!
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Speaker 1 (00:22):
And welcome back to Warren Family Letters Home. I'm your
podcast host Lauren Muse. In this podcast, we talk about
letters letters written home by US servicemen and women during
World War II. My mission is to return World War
II history to families, one letter and one story at
(00:43):
a time. It's my hope that someone will hear the
podcasts and recognize family connections and contact me because these
letters home while they belong home with descendants to cherish
and show with pride. I found today's letters at our
and happily I was able to connect with family and
(01:04):
this letter is going home. Please join me for this
story and hear the letter Home. The letter for this
week's podcast was written by Pfc. Donald Dean Eberling, US Army.
(01:31):
Donald Dean Eberling was born May twenty third, nineteen twenty
six in Postville, Iowa. He was the oldest of three
children born to Eli and Elna Eberling, and he was
the grandson of German immigrants. On the nineteen thirty census,
we find the young family in Grand Meadow Township, Iowa,
(01:51):
living and working their farm. On the nineteen forty census,
Donald is recorded as thirteen years old and the family
is now living in Nashua, Iowa, where Donald's father is
working on a farm. On Wednesday, February February eighteenth, nineteen
forty two, The Nashua Reporter reported on their sports page
(02:15):
that Nashua loses to Sumner by one point in Junior
High tourney finals, and it states that Donald Eberlin was
part of the Nashua lineup. He would have been sixteen
years old at this time. On May twenty sixth, nineteen
forty four, just three days after his eighteenth birthday, Donald
(02:36):
went to the Chickasaw County Local Board in Newhampton, Iowa,
and registered for the draft. Donald was described as six
foot two, one hundred and sixty pounds, blue eyes, brown hair,
and a ruddy complexion. His occupation is listed as picture
show projector operator at Missus Hanson's Theater in Nashua, Iowa.
(03:00):
The theater was actually called the Nashaua Theater and Missus
Hanson opened it in nineteen forty and the first movie
that was shown there was Murder at the Vanities, which
most notably starred Kitty Carlisle and Duke Ellington. On August eighteenth,
nineteen forty four, Donald was called up to serve in
(03:23):
the U. S. Army, and after training at Fort Snelling
in Minnesota, he departed the US on January fifth, nineteen
forty five, as a member of the forty fifth Infantry
Division Company M one hundred and seventy ninth Infantry Regiment
the Thunderbird Division. M Company denoted that it was the
(03:44):
heavy Weapons Company. When p F. C. Ebling joined up
with one hundred and seventy ninth in January of nineteen
forty five, they were crossing southern Germany on their way
towards Munich, about two hundred miles away. The division fought
defensively along the border, and in mid February they fell
back for rest and retraining, and moved forward again in
(04:08):
mid March, attacking the Siegfried line. They crossed the Rhine
on the twenty sixth of March. They continued to push forward,
entering Nuremberg on April twentieth, and then they took Munich
on the thirtieth. Only about fifteen to twenty miles from
Munich was the town of Dacca, which was the site
(04:31):
of a German concentration camp. Dacca was an early site
of the Reich and was used originally to imprison those
in political opposition to Hitler. The brutal treatment and terror
imposed by the SS was used as the model to
be followed in all other concentration camps. In nineteen thirty six,
(04:52):
the scope of prisoners to be imprisoned there expanded to
include reasons of racial ideology and a social hygiene. These
prisoners were used to construct an expansion to the camp,
which would ultimately have a capacity of six thousand inmates.
In nineteen thirty eight, as Hitler began expanding German rule
(05:14):
and the Jewish population of the occupied countries were sent
to Dhaka and other concentration camps. In nineteen thirty eight,
almost eleven thousand Jewish men were sent to Dacca. The
harsh working conditions, the insufficient rations, and a lack of
hygiene facilities in the camp led to a soaring death
(05:37):
rate in nineteen forty four, with more than thirty thousand prisoners,
the camp is dramatically overcrowded. The catastrophic living conditions led
to the outbreak of typhus epidemic. Of the approximately forty
one thousand, five hundred persons who lose their lives between
(05:59):
nineteen thirty one three and nineteen forty five. Over one
third died during the final six months of the war.
In April of nineteen forty five, the forty fifth Infantry Division,
which included the one hundred and seventy ninth Infantry Regiment,
is widely recognized as one of the primary units responsible
(06:22):
for liberating Dacau. The one hundred and seventy ninth played
a role in both the capture of Dakau from the
Nazis and being of the first of Allied troops to
see the horror of the camp. Very few American World
War II veterans involved in the liberation of the concentration
camps ever talked about their experience other than to say
(06:45):
that it changed their lives forever. PFC. Ebling would have
been nineteen years old when this camp was liberated. May one,
of nineteen forty five, it was reported that Hitler was dead.
The Allies continued their occupation of Germany, and German troops
(07:06):
in Denmark, Holland, Austria, and Northwest Germany surrendered on May
fourth and fifth. On May seventh, the unconditional surrender was signed,
and on May ninth, with one hundred and seventy ninth
still in the area of Dhaka. It was announced at
twelve oh one that the war in Europe was officially ended.
(07:27):
Once the war was over, there were still duties to
carry out even as the US was setting up the
order of transports to bring the boys home. The one
hundred and seventy ninth was sent to Laha of France
to await their trip home. Pfc. Eblin was at Camp
Philip Morris, which was one of a number of temporary U. S.
(07:48):
Army tent cities situated around the French ports. There was
Camp Lucky Strike, Old Gold Pall Mall the names of
cigarettes which were chosen for a couple reasons, The first
being for security, the camp names would not give away
any geographical location, the next being a weirdly psychological reason,
(08:11):
as this they thought the soldiers wouldn't mind staying somewhere
that they thought cigarettes would be plentiful. I read once
that seventy five percent of the soldiers in World War
II smoked, even often due to the stress of combat
and the social acceptance of smoking at that period of time.
Soldiers would receive a small pack of cigarettes is part
(08:35):
of their daily rations. It is while at Camp Philip
Morris and LaHave, France, and August of nineteen forty five
that PFC. Everling wrote home to his dad back in Iowa.
All over the outside of the letter. He wrote to
Dad only August twenty third, nineteen forty five, Dear Dad,
(08:59):
how are you doing? I'm fine as ever. I'll get
home about the twelfth. The thirteenth of October, we leave
here Sunday and go to England and we'll be there
for a week or ten days. Then we head for
the States, where we'll go through three camps and we'll
stay at each one for at least a week. When
(09:19):
I get home, I want some bread and honey and
lots of tomatoes. The Army bread is about like homemade,
but it's not fresh. In the Army, we get pineapple
once a day and peaches too. How is everything at home?
I suppose school will start next week? What do you
folks have for breakfast? I usually have hot cakes, two
(09:42):
or three that are four inches and very thin, one
slice of bread, bacon, one half a mouthful usually coffee,
and once in a great while, a thimbleful of fruit juice.
This isn't much. The chowel lines are about two or
three hundred yards in length. I'll name what I would
(10:03):
like for breakfast when I'm home. I want breakfast food,
eggs and bacon, toast every morning, fruit juice, coffee, and
bread and all I forgot butter on the toast and bread.
All I'm going to do when I'm home is eat
and eat, and then eat some more. Tell the kids
(10:23):
to work hard at school, and I hope to see
them play football. Should be mid season when I'm home.
Don't write any letters because we go from camp to
camp and won't. It won't catch up with me till
I get home. The letters sent to me by others
will be sent direct to home address instead of trying
to catch up with me. Now that the war is over,
(10:46):
I should get some film when I'm home, at least,
I hope. So keep trying to get some one twenty
seven or one twenty. I still get that nice folding camera.
It really looks no good, but it is. Mom. You
will have to go to about three shows when I'm home.
Is that a deal? I hope. So. My shaving Mira disappeared,
(11:08):
so I'll have to get a new one when I'm home.
I've got something for you that you will be proud
to have. I hope, I hope sugar isn't rationed any more.
I heard they are selling radios and most things that
you used to have to have a permit to get.
I wish I could get an electric phonograph when I'm home.
The type I like is the one that will play
(11:30):
ten records without stopping. Do you think I could find
one when I'm home. The eight months I've been over here,
I've spent only twenty five dollars. When I was in
the States, I spent more than that in only one month.
So when I get home, I will spend around one
hundred dollars. I've got eighty five dollars right now, and
(11:51):
after pay Day I should have better ore close to
a hundred. I guess I'll write to Grandma and Grandpa
Dee next when I finish this. Do you know how
much it costs Grandpa to build the house they live in.
It will be about two years before I'll get out
of the Army. When I get out, I want to
go to school for nine months, then help you and
(12:14):
carpenter work. If you'll have me, then I plan to
build a nice house. Through the GI Bill of Rights,
the part about the loans. I can get up to
four thousand through this loan, and you pay interest on
only half of it. That plan is good if the
government stands by the Bill of Rights. I can't think
I much to write. I never can write a long
(12:36):
letter at all. Tell Ma that I'll be home the
twenty first of October, so if we're delayed or late,
she won't worry. This is my last letter I'll write here.
I might send a telegram when I'm in the States
if they let us. I've got about twenty packs of
cigarettes or smoking material or whatever you call it. Tell
(12:57):
Ma keep her chin up. I'll see your eye October
twenty first, or a week sooner. I hope your son, Pfc.
Donald Eberling PS. Remember I'm still thinking of you, Dad.
I thought it funny that he writes that he could
never write a long letter, because this one is seven
(13:20):
pages long. Pfc. Ebling didn't have to wait too long
and was back in the USA on September fourteenth, nineteen
forty five, and he was honorably discharged July second, nineteen
forty six. After his discharge, mister Ebling did take advantage
of the GI Bill and went to school the GI
(13:42):
Bill was meant to help World War II veterans readjust
to civilian life and also to help avoid another economic depression.
The GI Bill provided funds for education on employment allowances,
job finding assistants, and government back loans. Only twenty twenty
percent of the money that had been set aside for
(14:04):
unemployment payments was actually used, while forty six percent of
World War II veterans took advantage of the education benefits.
On August twenty seventh, nineteen forty seven, The Nashua Reporter
of Nashua, Iowa reported that Donald Eberling completes course at
(14:28):
electrical school. Donald Eberling has completed an eighteen week course
in electricity and refrigeration at Boyne Electrical School in Chicago.
He graduated with the class of nineteen forty seven after
being in the service and attended the electrical school under
the GI Bill. He returned home on Saturday. On November nineteenth,
(14:54):
nineteen forty seventh, The Nashua Reporter also reported that Donald
US Emberling opens electrical repair shop. Donald Everling has opened
his electrical repair shop this week. The shop is in
a building of his parents acreage on Highway to eighteen
in the south edge of town. He plans to start
(15:14):
refrigeration repair work in about a month when he hopes
to have the necessary material and equipment. On the nineteen
fifty census, Donald is living at home with his parents
and his brother Gerald. His dad was working as an
operator at a farm equipment manufacturer, and Donald is noted
(15:36):
as an electrician, and Gerald is a laborer at a
corncrib building company. According to his grandniece Angela, mister Ebling
was an electrician for the rest of his years. She
described him as a jolly man who was very orderly
and mostly kept to himself. He never married, and every
(15:58):
winter he went to Florida. It was while in Florida
on March twenty first, two thousand two, that Donald Dean
Ebling passed away at the age of seventy five. According
to his obituary printed in the Courier of Waterloo, Iowa,
mister Ebling passed away at Martin Memorial Medical Center and Stuart, Florida,
(16:21):
from complications following a stroke. Survivors include a brother, Gerald,
of Nashua and a sister, Dorothy of Charles City. Mister
Ebling attended electrical school in Chicago and was the owner
and electrician for Eberling Electric in Nashua until retiring in
two thousand. He served in the US Army, obtaining the
(16:44):
rank of Private first Class in one hundred and seventy
ninth Infantry, forty fifth Division. Mister Ebling is buried in
Oak Hill Cemetery in Nashua, Iowa. Pfc. Everling wrote home
to his dad that when he got home he was
going to eat, eat again, and eat some more, and
(17:05):
it seems that breakfast was the meal he most wanted
to get back to. Next time you have a nice
big breakfast of bacon, eggs, toast with butter, and a
nice big glass of fruit juice. Please raise that glass
of juice to mister Ebling and give him a thanks
for his service. Private first Class, Donald Dean Eberling, I
(17:27):
certainly thank you for your service, and your letter is
going home to your grandniece Angela. Thank you for joining
me to hear the story of Donald D. Eberling. All
details in this podcast were discovered by research done by
(17:50):
me using public military genealogy and newspaper search sites, and
also some great information from his grand niece Warren Family Letters.
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(18:11):
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Home
And welcome back to Warren Family Letters Home. I'm your
podcast host Lauren Muse. In this podcast, we talk about
letters letters written home by US servicemen and women during
World War II. My mission is to return World War
II history to families, one letter and one story at
(00:43):
a time. It's my hope that someone will hear the
podcasts and recognize family connections and contact me because these
letters home while they belong home with descendants to cherish
and show with pride. I found today's letters at our
and happily I was able to connect with family and
(01:04):
this letter is going home. Please join me for this
story and hear the letter Home. The letter for this
week's podcast was written by Pfc. Donald Dean Eberling, US Army.
(01:31):
Donald Dean Eberling was born May twenty third, nineteen twenty
six in Postville, Iowa. He was the oldest of three
children born to Eli and Elna Eberling, and he was
the grandson of German immigrants. On the nineteen thirty census,
we find the young family in Grand Meadow Township, Iowa,
(01:51):
living and working their farm. On the nineteen forty census,
Donald is recorded as thirteen years old and the family
is now living in Nashua, Iowa, where Donald's father is
working on a farm. On Wednesday, February February eighteenth, nineteen
forty two, The Nashua Reporter reported on their sports page
(02:15):
that Nashua loses to Sumner by one point in Junior
High tourney finals, and it states that Donald Eberlin was
part of the Nashua lineup. He would have been sixteen
years old at this time. On May twenty sixth, nineteen
forty four, just three days after his eighteenth birthday, Donald
(02:36):
went to the Chickasaw County Local Board in Newhampton, Iowa,
and registered for the draft. Donald was described as six
foot two, one hundred and sixty pounds, blue eyes, brown hair,
and a ruddy complexion. His occupation is listed as picture
show projector operator at Missus Hanson's Theater in Nashua, Iowa.
(03:00):
The theater was actually called the Nashaua Theater and Missus
Hanson opened it in nineteen forty and the first movie
that was shown there was Murder at the Vanities, which
most notably starred Kitty Carlisle and Duke Ellington. On August eighteenth,
nineteen forty four, Donald was called up to serve in
(03:23):
the U. S. Army, and after training at Fort Snelling
in Minnesota, he departed the US on January fifth, nineteen
forty five, as a member of the forty fifth Infantry
Division Company M one hundred and seventy ninth Infantry Regiment
the Thunderbird Division. M Company denoted that it was the
(03:44):
heavy Weapons Company. When p F. C. Ebling joined up
with one hundred and seventy ninth in January of nineteen
forty five, they were crossing southern Germany on their way
towards Munich, about two hundred miles away. The division fought
defensively along the border, and in mid February they fell
back for rest and retraining, and moved forward again in
(04:08):
mid March, attacking the Siegfried line. They crossed the Rhine
on the twenty sixth of March. They continued to push forward,
entering Nuremberg on April twentieth, and then they took Munich
on the thirtieth. Only about fifteen to twenty miles from
Munich was the town of Dacca, which was the site
(04:31):
of a German concentration camp. Dacca was an early site
of the Reich and was used originally to imprison those
in political opposition to Hitler. The brutal treatment and terror
imposed by the SS was used as the model to
be followed in all other concentration camps. In nineteen thirty six,
(04:52):
the scope of prisoners to be imprisoned there expanded to
include reasons of racial ideology and a social hygiene. These
prisoners were used to construct an expansion to the camp,
which would ultimately have a capacity of six thousand inmates.
In nineteen thirty eight, as Hitler began expanding German rule
(05:14):
and the Jewish population of the occupied countries were sent
to Dhaka and other concentration camps. In nineteen thirty eight,
almost eleven thousand Jewish men were sent to Dacca. The
harsh working conditions, the insufficient rations, and a lack of
hygiene facilities in the camp led to a soaring death
(05:37):
rate in nineteen forty four, with more than thirty thousand prisoners,
the camp is dramatically overcrowded. The catastrophic living conditions led
to the outbreak of typhus epidemic. Of the approximately forty
one thousand, five hundred persons who lose their lives between
(05:59):
nineteen thirty one three and nineteen forty five. Over one
third died during the final six months of the war.
In April of nineteen forty five, the forty fifth Infantry Division,
which included the one hundred and seventy ninth Infantry Regiment,
is widely recognized as one of the primary units responsible
(06:22):
for liberating Dacau. The one hundred and seventy ninth played
a role in both the capture of Dakau from the
Nazis and being of the first of Allied troops to
see the horror of the camp. Very few American World
War II veterans involved in the liberation of the concentration
camps ever talked about their experience other than to say
(06:45):
that it changed their lives forever. PFC. Ebling would have
been nineteen years old when this camp was liberated. May one,
of nineteen forty five, it was reported that Hitler was dead.
The Allies continued their occupation of Germany, and German troops
(07:06):
in Denmark, Holland, Austria, and Northwest Germany surrendered on May
fourth and fifth. On May seventh, the unconditional surrender was signed,
and on May ninth, with one hundred and seventy ninth
still in the area of Dhaka. It was announced at
twelve oh one that the war in Europe was officially ended.
(07:27):
Once the war was over, there were still duties to
carry out even as the US was setting up the
order of transports to bring the boys home. The one
hundred and seventy ninth was sent to Laha of France
to await their trip home. Pfc. Eblin was at Camp
Philip Morris, which was one of a number of temporary U. S.
(07:48):
Army tent cities situated around the French ports. There was
Camp Lucky Strike, Old Gold Pall Mall the names of
cigarettes which were chosen for a couple reasons, The first
being for security, the camp names would not give away
any geographical location, the next being a weirdly psychological reason,
(08:11):
as this they thought the soldiers wouldn't mind staying somewhere
that they thought cigarettes would be plentiful. I read once
that seventy five percent of the soldiers in World War
II smoked, even often due to the stress of combat
and the social acceptance of smoking at that period of time.
Soldiers would receive a small pack of cigarettes is part
(08:35):
of their daily rations. It is while at Camp Philip
Morris and LaHave, France, and August of nineteen forty five
that PFC. Everling wrote home to his dad back in Iowa.
All over the outside of the letter. He wrote to
Dad only August twenty third, nineteen forty five, Dear Dad,
(08:59):
how are you doing? I'm fine as ever. I'll get
home about the twelfth. The thirteenth of October, we leave
here Sunday and go to England and we'll be there
for a week or ten days. Then we head for
the States, where we'll go through three camps and we'll
stay at each one for at least a week. When
(09:19):
I get home, I want some bread and honey and
lots of tomatoes. The Army bread is about like homemade,
but it's not fresh. In the Army, we get pineapple
once a day and peaches too. How is everything at home?
I suppose school will start next week? What do you
folks have for breakfast? I usually have hot cakes, two
(09:42):
or three that are four inches and very thin, one
slice of bread, bacon, one half a mouthful usually coffee,
and once in a great while, a thimbleful of fruit juice.
This isn't much. The chowel lines are about two or
three hundred yards in length. I'll name what I would
(10:03):
like for breakfast when I'm home. I want breakfast food,
eggs and bacon, toast every morning, fruit juice, coffee, and
bread and all I forgot butter on the toast and bread.
All I'm going to do when I'm home is eat
and eat, and then eat some more. Tell the kids
(10:23):
to work hard at school, and I hope to see
them play football. Should be mid season when I'm home.
Don't write any letters because we go from camp to
camp and won't. It won't catch up with me till
I get home. The letters sent to me by others
will be sent direct to home address instead of trying
to catch up with me. Now that the war is over,
(10:46):
I should get some film when I'm home, at least,
I hope. So keep trying to get some one twenty
seven or one twenty. I still get that nice folding camera.
It really looks no good, but it is. Mom. You
will have to go to about three shows when I'm home.
Is that a deal? I hope. So. My shaving Mira disappeared,
(11:08):
so I'll have to get a new one when I'm home.
I've got something for you that you will be proud
to have. I hope, I hope sugar isn't rationed any more.
I heard they are selling radios and most things that
you used to have to have a permit to get.
I wish I could get an electric phonograph when I'm home.
The type I like is the one that will play
(11:30):
ten records without stopping. Do you think I could find
one when I'm home. The eight months I've been over here,
I've spent only twenty five dollars. When I was in
the States, I spent more than that in only one month.
So when I get home, I will spend around one
hundred dollars. I've got eighty five dollars right now, and
(11:51):
after pay Day I should have better ore close to
a hundred. I guess I'll write to Grandma and Grandpa
Dee next when I finish this. Do you know how
much it costs Grandpa to build the house they live in.
It will be about two years before I'll get out
of the Army. When I get out, I want to
go to school for nine months, then help you and
(12:14):
carpenter work. If you'll have me, then I plan to
build a nice house. Through the GI Bill of Rights,
the part about the loans. I can get up to
four thousand through this loan, and you pay interest on
only half of it. That plan is good if the
government stands by the Bill of Rights. I can't think
I much to write. I never can write a long
(12:36):
letter at all. Tell Ma that I'll be home the
twenty first of October, so if we're delayed or late,
she won't worry. This is my last letter I'll write here.
I might send a telegram when I'm in the States
if they let us. I've got about twenty packs of
cigarettes or smoking material or whatever you call it. Tell
(12:57):
Ma keep her chin up. I'll see your eye October
twenty first, or a week sooner. I hope your son, Pfc.
Donald Eberling PS. Remember I'm still thinking of you, Dad.
I thought it funny that he writes that he could
never write a long letter, because this one is seven
(13:20):
pages long. Pfc. Ebling didn't have to wait too long
and was back in the USA on September fourteenth, nineteen
forty five, and he was honorably discharged July second, nineteen
forty six. After his discharge, mister Ebling did take advantage
of the GI Bill and went to school the GI
(13:42):
Bill was meant to help World War II veterans readjust
to civilian life and also to help avoid another economic depression.
The GI Bill provided funds for education on employment allowances,
job finding assistants, and government back loans. Only twenty twenty
percent of the money that had been set aside for
(14:04):
unemployment payments was actually used, while forty six percent of
World War II veterans took advantage of the education benefits.
On August twenty seventh, nineteen forty seven, The Nashua Reporter
of Nashua, Iowa reported that Donald Eberling completes course at
(14:28):
electrical school. Donald Eberling has completed an eighteen week course
in electricity and refrigeration at Boyne Electrical School in Chicago.
He graduated with the class of nineteen forty seven after
being in the service and attended the electrical school under
the GI Bill. He returned home on Saturday. On November nineteenth,
(14:54):
nineteen forty seventh, The Nashua Reporter also reported that Donald
US Emberling opens electrical repair shop. Donald Everling has opened
his electrical repair shop this week. The shop is in
a building of his parents acreage on Highway to eighteen
in the south edge of town. He plans to start
(15:14):
refrigeration repair work in about a month when he hopes
to have the necessary material and equipment. On the nineteen
fifty census, Donald is living at home with his parents
and his brother Gerald. His dad was working as an
operator at a farm equipment manufacturer, and Donald is noted
(15:36):
as an electrician, and Gerald is a laborer at a
corncrib building company. According to his grandniece Angela, mister Ebling
was an electrician for the rest of his years. She
described him as a jolly man who was very orderly
and mostly kept to himself. He never married, and every
(15:58):
winter he went to Florida. It was while in Florida
on March twenty first, two thousand two, that Donald Dean
Ebling passed away at the age of seventy five. According
to his obituary printed in the Courier of Waterloo, Iowa,
mister Ebling passed away at Martin Memorial Medical Center and Stuart, Florida,
(16:21):
from complications following a stroke. Survivors include a brother, Gerald,
of Nashua and a sister, Dorothy of Charles City. Mister
Ebling attended electrical school in Chicago and was the owner
and electrician for Eberling Electric in Nashua until retiring in
two thousand. He served in the US Army, obtaining the
(16:44):
rank of Private first Class in one hundred and seventy
ninth Infantry, forty fifth Division. Mister Ebling is buried in
Oak Hill Cemetery in Nashua, Iowa. Pfc. Everling wrote home
to his dad that when he got home he was
going to eat, eat again, and eat some more, and
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it seems that breakfast was the meal he most wanted
to get back to. Next time you have a nice
big breakfast of bacon, eggs, toast with butter, and a
nice big glass of fruit juice. Please raise that glass
of juice to mister Ebling and give him a thanks
for his service. Private first Class, Donald Dean Eberling, I
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certainly thank you for your service, and your letter is
going home to your grandniece Angela. Thank you for joining
me to hear the story of Donald D. Eberling. All
details in this podcast were discovered by research done by
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me using public military genealogy and newspaper search sites, and
also some great information from his grand niece Warren Family Letters.
Home is self funded and we will never ask a
family for any compensation to receive a letter home. If
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you'd like to contribute to my mission of returning history
to families, please contact me. You can find me on
Facebook at Warren Family Letters homepage, and I can be
reached via email at Warrenfamily at outlook dot com. Please
support our military, whether active or veteran status. These men
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and women sacrifice to serve this great country, whether in
war or peacetime. And until next week, this is Lauren
Muse and you have been listening to Warren Family Letters
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