VERNON BENJAMIN OCHS

AUGUST 1950

 

VernonWord has been received of the death of Vernon Benjamin Ochs of Fort Lewis Washington at Tacoma, Washington. He was a passenger on a motorcycle driven by Clifton B. Roberts, also of Ft. Lewis. They collided with the last car of several cars, then bounced ahead and sideswiped the next vehicle throwing the men from the machine.

Ochs was raised in this vicinity, and has several relatives here. Surviving him are his wife, Mae and children Peggy, Barbara, Dick and Dianne Yager, and Vernon Ray and Phillip Carl Ochs. Surviving him here are 3 uncles, Henry, Alexander of Bison and Manuel Ochs of LaCrosse. Burial was at Ft. Lewis, Washington.

 

Contributed by Virginia Baldwin

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