LaVern L. Nogosek

Korean War
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Fallen

County:
Stutsman

Date of Loss:

Branch of Service:
Army

Rank:
Private

Regiment / Group / Brigade:
180th Infantry Regiment

Division / Fleet / Air Force or Equivalent:
45th Infantry Division
Listed on/in the:
Register of North Dakota Veterans World War II 1941-1945 and Korean Conflict 1950-1953, published 1968

Circumstances:

Died in service in Sioux City, Iowa

Biography:

LaVerne L Nogosek, son of Louis and Theresa Nogosek, attended Nogosek Rural School and graduated from Kensel High School with the Class of 1944, being active in School Band, Dramatics and Basketball.

Following graduation, he engaged in farming with his father and resided at home, 3 miles south of Kensel in Stutsman Co. Being a good carpenter, LaVerne enlarged the farmhouse and built-in cupboards and also erected a new garage on the home farm. He remained at home and continued to farm until entering the Armed Forces in October of 1950. He was stationed at Camp Polk, Louisiana and was enroute home on his first furlough when the MidContinent Airliner plane crashed and burned in an ice storm at Sioux City, Iowa, in March 1951 killing 15 people.

Besides his mother and father, he was survived by 5 sisters, Irene and Harriett of Kensal; Mildred, Lorraine, and Marcia who were all living in Jamestown; and one brother, Leland, who was living in St Louis, Missouri.

He is buried in the Catholic Cemetery, Kensal, ND.