Person    | Male  Born 16/7/1921  Died 13/2/1947

Duane Beeson

Categories: Armed Forces

Countries: Canada, USA

War served, WW2 i

Commemorated on a memorial as having served in, and survived, WW2.

Lieutenant Colonel Duane Willard Beeson was born on 16 July 1921 in Boise, Idaho, USA, the son of Carl Beeson (1889-1964) and Zelda K. Beeson née Parsons (1891-1987).

Our Picture Source and his Wikipedia page give details of his life and his death, aged 25 years, on 13 February 1947. He was buried in Section 11, Grave 34 in the Arlington National Cemetery, 1 Memorial Avenue, Arlington, Virginia, USA.

Credit for this entry to: Andrew Behan.

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Duane Beeson

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