Walter Hans Skow, Private, U.S. Army

313th Sanitary Trains, 88th Infantry Division

Entered the Service from: Nebraska

Died: October 17, 1918

Buried at: Plot G Row 25 Grave 39, Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne, France

Note: The following was handwritten on the sheet: WW1 Draft Reg. #378; age 27; Home, Arlington; born 8 Dec 1889 at Ft. Calhoun; farmer for Otto Jensen at Ft. Calhoun.

News 22 Jan 1919

Skow – Elsie Nelson, born 4 Dec 1853 – Died 30 Oct 1941

Skow – Jeppe Hansen, born 22 July 1856 – Died 29 Oct 1941

Skow, Theresa M, born 30 June 1900 – Died 24 April 1989

Skow, Wm A, born 12 Feb 1897 – Died 11 April 1982

Skow, Wm H, born 24 July 1924 – Died 16 Jan 1994

Above buried in Ft. Calhoun Cemetery.

#2-Published in the Pilot February 19, 1919

Death of Walter Skow

France, Dec. 26, 1918
Mrs. Hilda A. Mattox,
2640 Chicago Street, Omaha, Neb.
My Dear Mrs. Mattox: You letter of November 19th requesting information as to the death of your brother, Private Walter H. Skow, on hand, and the following, I trust will be sufficient to give you all the information which you desire.

Private Skow was on special duty (the rest of the newspaper clipping is missing)

Find a Grave Memorial #55996875

~~~ Obituary courtesy of the Washington County Genealogical Society. Newspaper clippings on file in the Blair Public Library at Blair, Nebraska.~~~