Memorial Day

In the United States, Memorial Day is a day on which those who died on active service are remembered, usually the last Monday in May. In the William Milton & Sarah Glenn (Hughes) Scholl family I can only think of a couple of family members who died during active service. There may be more but my software doesn’t allow me to search for specific items like this so I am going off of memory. If I have missed anyone please let me know.

 

Robert E. Funk

Robert E. Funk was born in 1904 and married Melba E. Maupin in St. Louis, Missouri in 1934. He was killed in 1944 in either a B-17 or B-24 crash. His son, Robert H., is not aware of all the details but believes his father was “burned up” in the crash. I have not been able to find any other information.

 

Rex Donel Bundy

Rex was born in 1948 in Seattle, Washington. He was the son of Pearl G. Scholl and Rex W. Bundy.  Rex D. married Andrea Rohr in August 1969 and was killed in Taiwan in October 1970.

 

Mexico Ledger

October 21, 1970

 Rex Bundy Rites to Be On Friday

 

CEJNTRALIA-Funeral services for Airman First Class Rex Bundy, 22, of Centralia, who died in a plane crash Oct. 2 in Taiwan, will be held at 2 p.m. Friday at the Centralia United Methodist Church. Airman Bundy was in flight from Taipei, Ching Chaun Kang Air Force Base on the island of Taiwan. He was one of 43 men aboard the flight who perished. He was born Jan. 3, 1948, in Seattle, Wash, and was a son of Mr. and Mrs. L. W. Barnthouse of Centralia. Airman Bundy was a 1965 graduate of Centralia High School and graduated from Northeast Missouri State College, Kirksville, in August 1969. He entered the Air Force and received his basic training at Lackland Air Force Base, Tex. He received training at Wichita, Kan. He was a member of the Centralia United Methodist Church.

On Aug. 16, 1969, he was married to the former Andrea Gayle Rohr, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Homer Rohr of Centralia. Mrs. Bundy has been living with her parents at Route 1, Centralia, since her husband's departure for Taiwan a few days before the accident.

Airman Bundy is survived by his wife, his parents; a sister, Mrs. Tom (Kay) Cox of Centralia; and his grandfather, James Scholl of Centralia. Military services will be held .n Centralia by Whiteman Air

Force Base, Knob Noster. The Rev. Thomas Adams will officiate at funeral services with burial in Glendale Memorial Gardens. Friends may call at the Fenton Funeral Home in Centralia from Thursday noon until Friday noon.