LEADER-TIMES, KITTANNING, PA
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1961
Serviceman Funeral Will Be Thursday
OAK RIDGE -- Funeral services will be held at 2pm Thursday in the Oak Ridge Methodist Church for SP4c Jacob Irven Greenawalt, 21, or Oak Ridge.
SP Greenawalt died on Oct 28, 1961, iun the US Army Hospital in Badcannstatt, Germany, of injuries received in an accident at 6pm that day near Neuenstedt, Germany, on Highway 19.
Greenawalt was assistant driver on a 2-1/2 ton vehicle which turned over when the driver failed to negotiate a turn. Hospitalization was required for the driver and eight passengers at the US Army Hospital in Badcannstatt.
Greenawalt was given medical assistance at the scene of the accident and was pronounced dead on arrival a the hospital. He was serving with Company "A" 126 Ordinance Batallion, Fourth Armor Division, at Neu Ulm, Germany.
Greenawalt was born Aug. 4, 1940, in Oak Ridge. He was the son of J. Irven and Gladys Cora (Milliron) Greenawalt.
Greenawalt was graduated in 1958 from Redbank Valley High School. He was a member of the Methodist Church in Oak Ridge.
Surviving, in addition to his parents, wo reside in Oak Ridge, are five brothers and five sisters: Malcom Bailey or Oak Ridge; Gerald Jamison of Atwater, Calif; Edward Greenawalt of West Kittanning; Joe Greenawalt of Ashtabula, Ohio; Raymond Greenawalt, Youngstown, Ohio; Mrs Donald (Jeanette) Klepfer of Mayport RD 1; Mrs Hilton (Virginia) Minich of Fairmount City RD 1; Mrs. Robert (Mary) McCanna, Mrs Bernard (Ruth) Shank, and Mrs Chester (Alma) Chocek, all of Kittanning.
A maternal grandfather, Frank Milliron of Kittanning RD 2, also survives.
Friends will be received tonight and tomorrow afternoon and evening at the Reitz funeral home, New Bethlehem, and one hour prior to services on Thursday at the church.
Rev. Arthur R. Babbit of Summerville will conduct services. Military services will also be held. Interment will be in Rimersburg Cemetery.
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