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Note: Served in the France 18 months and was in the Battle of Belleau Woods Joseph E Wakeland of Aledo, will be honored on May 2 at an open house in observance of his 95th birthday. Relatives and friends are invited to call from 2-4pm in the activity room at the Mercer County Nursing Home, Aledo, where he now resides. Mr. Wakeland was born May 2, 1894 near Millersburg and has lived in Mercer County, most of his life.His children are June Fifield of St. Petersburg Florida, Cheryl Engle of Aledo, Joe of New Boston and Frank of Kileen, Tx. There are 14 grandchildren, 25 gr-grand childen and 13 gr-gr-grandchildren. He is one of the three remaining Mercer County WW l veterans of Battery B. 123rd Field Artillery. (Taken from an unknown newspaper article) Mr. Joseph E. Wakeland 96, formerly of Rural Route 2 , Aledo died Nov. 28, 1990 at the Mercer County Nursing Home, Aledo. Services were held at 11:00am Friday at Island Cemetery, Muscatine, Iowa, the Rev. Claude Moreland of the First Baptist Church officiating.Visitation was from 7 to 8:30pm, Thursday at Reiser-Trimble Funeral Home, Aledo. Memorials may be made to the Joseph Wakeland Memorial Fund. Pallbearers were: Earl Brown Jr., Stacy Brown, Jim Kaufman, Charles Pierce, Dan Wakeland and Rick Wakeland. Mr. Wakeland was the next to the last surviving member of the 123rd Battery B Field Artillery Unit of the United States Army serving in WWl. Military rites were conducted at graveside by the Muscatine American Legion Post of which he was amember. Mr. Wakeland was born May 2,1894 in Mercer County, Illinois, the son of Frank Lee and Mary Williams Wakeland. He married Mamie Lucille Fifield on Nov. 28, 1921 in Muscatine, Iowa. She died Feb.11,1969 He married Beulah Fifield March 8, 1973 in Aledo and she died Jan.2, 1982. He was employed for several years as a painter , working with Lee Peterson and Bill Steele, painting contractors, until retiring in 1964. In previous years, he had been employed with the Huttig Manufacturing Co. in Muscatine for 14 years; the Rock Island Arsenal during WWII; and as a farm hand in Mercer County. Survivors include two daughters, June Fifield of St. Petersburg, Florida and Mrs. Dean (Cheryl) Engle of Aledo; two sons; Joe Wakeland of New Boston and Frank Wakeland of Kileen, Texas; 14 grandchildren; 25 gr-grandchildren; 16 gr-gr- grandchildren ; and a sister Mary Peters of Kalmath Falls, Or. He was a member of the Reorganized Church of the Latter Day Saints. He was preceded in death by his parents, wives, a son Norman; a daughter Violet; sisters Lillie Hollopeter; Margaret Buchanan; Nettie Boney and Myrtle Bruner and brothers Charles ; John; Albert ; and Walter Wakeland. This obit was given to me by Roger Taylor and was published Nov.28,1990, but I don't know which newspaper. Birth and death dates also taken from the Island Cemetery records, Muscatine, Iowa
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