STAPLES, MINNESOTA
World War II Honor Roll Wall
During World War II, a wooden Honor Wall featuring a neon American flag was erected in Staples to recognize and honor more than 900 local men and women serving in the military. This granite memorial faithfully recreates that original wall, paying tribute to the veterans from the Staples area who served during World War II.
The names listed below will be engraved in granite as a permanent tribute to their service. Every effort has been made to ensure the accuracy of both the names and their spellings, as well as to include all eligible veterans.
If you believe a name has been omitted or requires correction, please let us know so we can review the information.
If you notice any discrepancies, please reach out to Staples Veterans Park. You can contact Huck Holst, Vice President, at 218-296-2469.
We kindly encourage donations as we continue to raise funds to complete this important project.
We remember the family, friends, and neighbors from the Staples area
who served to protect our freedom.
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Adamek, Harry
Adamek, Richard
Adamietz, John Jr.
Adamietz, Joseph P.
Adamietz, Mary Ann
Adamietz, Steve
Adams, Joy
Ahlbrecht, Harold
Ameluna, Carl
Ameluna, Edwin
Amundson, Grant
Anderberg, Carl E.
Anderberg, Carl J.
Anderson, Armand
Anderson, Emil
Anderson, Gordon
Anderson, Marshall
Anderson, Raymond
Anderson, Roy W.
Anderson, Truman
Anderson, William
Andrews, Dona
Andrews, Raymond
Anglin, John Jr.
Anthos, Leonard
Arndt, Elmer
Arnold, Norbert P.
Atkinson, William
Atwood, Theron
Auld, Delores J.
Auld, Frank Jr.
Auld, Louis O.
Avery, Earl
Avery, Edwin
Avery, George
Avery, Herman
Avery, James
Avery, Newman M.
Avery, Richard
B
Backberg, Leroy
Backes, Fred
Backes, George
Bacon, Albert K.
Bacon, Ronald
Baier, Edwin
Baier, Ervin
Baier, Louis E.
Baier, Oscar
Baier, Walter
Bakken, Conrad
Baldwin, Melvin
Barrett, Charles
Barrett, Fred
Barrett, Kenneth
Barrows, Lawrence L.
Barrus, Charles
Barrus, Francis
Barrus, Lloyd
Barrus, Ransford
Barrus, William
Bartylla, Lawrence
Bass, Ray
Bastien, Kenneth
Batcher, David
Belch, Alfred
Belch, John
Bellamy, Henry W.
Bellamy, John
Berch, Arndt B.
Berg, Ahldor K.
Bienusa, Alois G.
Bienusa, Thomas
Bittner, William
Bjelde, Kenneth
Bjelde, Victor
Bjerga, Alvin
Bjeros, Arthur
Black, Donald
Black, Earle
Black, Harry
Blanck, Reinhardt
Blankenship, Harland
Blegen, Ellen
Blegen, Harold A.
Blegen, John
Boardway, Clarence J.
Boardway, Jack
Boardway, Robert G.
Bohne, Alvin F.
Bohne, Vernon
Booth, Bernice L.
Booth, John
Borle, Stanley
Bowers, Howard O.
Boyer, Clayton
Boyer, Wallace
Boyer, Willard
Brandt, James
Brant, Kenneth R.
Brauch, Charles
Brazier, Charles
Bristlin, Carl
Bristlin, Edwin
Bristlin, John
Brokopp, Arnold J.
Brostrom, Wayne
Brown, Blanchard
Brown, Roger R
Brummer, James
Brummer, Warren
Brummer, William Jr.
Bryan, Herbert
Burke, Adlord
Burke, Duane
Burke, Eugene
Burke, Gerald
Burke, Maurice
Burke, Noel
Butler, Robert
Butler, Willwam
Buttshaw, Henry
Buttshaw, Norval E.
Buttshaw, Vernon
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Campbell, Lowell
Caress, John
Carlson, Donna Marie
Carlson, Edward W.
Carlson, Richard
Carlson, Ted
Carr, Boyd
Carr, John F.
Carr, Robert A.
Case, Robert L.
Cebeil, Wayne E.
Chackle, Merville
Chapin, Bernard
Chapin, Denny
Chapin, Leonard
Chase, Mae
Chenoworth, Robert
Chouinard, Donald C.
Chouinard, Douglas L.
Chouinard, Lawrence
Chouinard, Leonard
Christianson, Chris M.
Christianson, Kenneth
Christianson, Richard
Clabots, Charles
Clabots, John
Clausen, Claude
Clausen, Raymond
Cleveland, Kenneth
Clossen, Clifford
Colbe, Carl
Collins, Thomas
Collison, Vera
Corey, William L.
Covel, Floyd
Crampton, Robert
Cronin, Chas B.
Cronin, Patrick
Cross, Robert
Cruse, Charles J.
D
Dahl, Alfred W.
Dahlen, Theodore Jr.
Dahlen, Thomas
Dailey, Clarence
Dailey, Everett
Dailey, Lawrence
Daniels, Henry
Daniels, Leonard
Davenport, Vernon
Davis, Roy
Dean, Clement
Dearing, Casper
Degeest, E.W.
Deline, Clara A.
Demars, Darrell
Demars, Donald
Demars, Everett
Demars, Marion
Demars, Reo D.
Dempsey, George
Dennehey, Donald
Dennehey, Robert
Dennehey, Thomas
Dennemeyer, Joe
Desmarais, Laverne
Desmarais, Leo
Dewald, Charles
Dezell, Floyd
Dezell, Orville
Dickinson, Eldon
Dickman, Phillip
Dickson, Donald
Dinehart, Clifford
Dinehart, Duane
Dobson, Gordon
Doklet, Charles
Doklet, Rudy
Dower, Herbert J.
Dower, Janet K.
Doyle, Frank L.
Drake, Vernon
Drinkwine, Richard
Dudrey, Phyllis
Dukowitz, Bernard J.
Dukowitz, David
Dukowitz, Donald
Dukowitz, Frank J.
Dukowitz, John P.
Dukowitz, Joseph
Dukowitz, Orville
Dukowitz, Percy
Dumpprope, Earl
Dumpprope, Gail
Dumpprope, Lloyd
Dunkin, Jack
Dunlap, Richard
Dyer, Charles
Dyer, Clifford
Dyer, Percy
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Eastman, Lawrence
Edwards, Gene
Ellefson, Rudy M.
Ellis, Gail
Ellis, Gordon
Ellis, Wesley C.
Erbe, Harold L.
Erickson, Harold
Erickson, Harvey
Erickson, Virgil
Etzler, Albert
Etzler, Henry
Etzler, Martin
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Faehnrich, Malcom
Faehnrich, Richard S.
Fahlander, Leo
Fair, Lyle
Fairman, Margaret
Farber, Charles L.
Farber, Charlie F.
Farber, Maynard F.
Fellman, Andrew
Fellman, Louis
Fellman, Rudy
Fellman, Walter L.
Ferris, George
Fiedler, Robert H.
Finn, Francis V.
Finn, William B.
Fisk, Jack
Fogelstrom, Eugene
Fogelstrom, Raymond
Fossum, Orlando R.
Foster, Charles C.
Frank, Robert
Fredrikhson, Ivan
Frikken, John W.
Fuller, Melvin A.
Furcht, Kenneth
G
Gaines, Robert
Galllipo, Francis
Gaumitz, David
Gaumitz, James
George, Ervin
George, Harold
Gibbs, Howard
Gibney, Jerome
Gillespie, Charles
Gillespie, Edward B.
Gilmore, Charles
Gilmore, Fay
Gilmore, Gilford
Gilmore, John
Gilmore, John E.
Gilmore, Raymond
Gilmore, Warren M.
Gjerde, William P.
Gjerde, William P.
Goble, Elmer
Goepferd, Vera
Gollner, Martin
Goor, Edward
Goulet, Freddie
Granger, Loren
Grant, Harry
Grant, Leroy
Green, Gordon
Greif, Chester
Griep, Esther E.
Gripne, Jack
Gripne, Roy
Guth Jerold
Guth, John
H
Hagen, Sydney
Hahn, James R.
Haining, John
Haining, Roger
Halberg, Herman E.
Hall, Leonard
Hall, Lowel
Halliday, Robert
Hammond, Richard
Hammond, Roger
Hand, Darwyn
Hankey, James O.
Hankey, Lorraine
Hankey, Roger
Hanson, Albert N.
Hanson, Daniel
Hanson, Edgar
Hanson, Erving
Hanson, Howard
Hanson, Louis
Hanson, Magnus K.
Hanson, Roger
Hanson, Wallace
Harkcom, Floyd
Harkcom, Lloyd
Harmon, William M.
Harter, Albert
Haskin, Byron
Haskin, Leroy
Haskin, Warren
Hasselberg, Rueben D.
Hassler, Clair
Hassler, Francis
Hassler, Fred
Haugen, Wilbur
Head, Byron
Heaver, Elmo
Heaver, Lloyd W.
Heier, Frederick G.
Heier, Larry
Henegar, Ellis
Herman, Edward Jr.
Herman, Edward O.
Herman, Leroy
Herman, Raymond
Hill, John Jr.
Hilton, Alvin
Hindahl, Arnold
Hiram, Edward
Hirschey, James
Hoemberg, Clarence
Hoemberg, Fred
Hoemberg, Patrick
Hoemberg, Paul
Hoemberg, Walter D.
Hoen, Lincoln
Hoen, Robert
Hollister, Clyde
Hollister, Dale
Hollister, Joe Jr.
Hollister, Robert
Holtarewe, Charles
Holub, Harold
Homeyer, Grace
Homeyer, Raymond
Hove, Eldon
Hove, Virgil
Hoxter, Barbara J.
Hoxter, D. L.
Huebner, Warren F.
Huff, Lawrence
Hulett, Eugene
Hunter, Harvey
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Ingebritson, Harry R.
Ingebritson, Leland
Ingebritson, Orville A.
J
Jackson, Robert
Jacobson, Donald
Jacobson, Newman
Jacobson, William
Jansma, Andrew
Janz, Fred
Jares, Floyd
Jares, Frank
Jares, Harold
Jares, Henry
Jelinek, Donald
Jelinek, Jack
Jenkins, Francis R.
Jensen, Lewis
Jenson, Clyde L.
Johnson, Clarence Jr.
Johnson, Dennis
Johnson, Donald
Johnson, Donald
Johnson, Earl
Johnson, Elmer H.
Johnson, Ernest
Johnson, Floyd O.
Johnson, Gilman
Johnson, Harold
Johnson, Harold E.
Johnson, Harold W.
Johnson, Irving D.
Johnson, James
Johnson, Kenneth
Johnson, Marion
Johnson, Melvin
Johnson, Milton H.
Johnson, Noral
Johnson, O. L.
Johnson, Paul
Johnson, Paul F.
Johnson, Richard E.
Johnson, Robert H.
Johnson, W. F.
Johnson, Walter
Johnson, Wesley R.
Johnson, Willard E.
Johnstone, Glen
Johnstone, Lloyd S.
Johnstone, Sheldon
Judd, Clifford
Judd, Fred
Judd, Thomas
Judd, Virgil
Junker, Carl
Junker, Hans
Junker, Otto
K
Kaler, J. Lloyd
Kaler, James
Kaler, Josephe
Kelly, Richard C.
Kelsey, Kenneth
Kemp, Brajiman
Kemp, Laur
Kemp, Marion
Kemp, Marvin
Kemp, Silas B.
Kennedy, Elton
Kennedy, Harry
Ketchek, Charles
Kingsley, Donald
Kinler, Jack
Kinler, Kenneth K.
Kinler, William
Kirchgessner, Daniel
Klang, Floyd A.
Kliem, Arnold
Kliem, Roy
Klos, George
Knapp, Glen
Knapper, Ernest
Knapper, George
Knapper, Martin
Knosalla, Arthur
Knosalla, George S.
Knosalla, Joe
Knosalla, Katherine
Knosalla, Wallace
Kolbe, Earl
Kolbe, Harry
Konz, Frank
Kophengst, William
Koshan, Edward
Koubol, Joe
Kozitka, Lyle
Kozitka, Marvin
Kozitka, Maurice
Krantz, Bennie
Kringen, Embert
Kubitza, Fritz
Kubitza, George
Kubitza, Henry
Kubitza, Ivan
Kurpius, Lawrence
Kurz, William
Kveton, Lawrence
L
Lamb, Henry
Langer, Ben A.
Lanske, Arthur
Lanske, August
Lanske, Ollo
Lanske, Otto
Larson, Harry G.
Lee, Louis
LeFever, Chas F.
Leuchs, Donald L.
Lewis, Marion
Lilly, Glen
Lilly, Malvin Floyd
Lind, Rex
Lindaman, Owen
Link, Elmer
Littrel, Francis
Logering, Alvin
Longbella, C. Richard
Lubke, Allen
Lubke, Ellsworth
Lubke, Harry
Ludovissie, John
Ludovissie, Theo
Lund, Jack
Lundquist, Harley
Lundquist, Lester
Lundquist, Norman
Lundquist, Owen J.
Lyons, Lionel
M
Madlung, Ed
Madlung, Jack
Malfeo, Ione A.
Malfeo, Ruth M.
Mallas, Ivan
Manson, George E.
Manson, James A.
Mapes, Marvin E.
Marden, James
Marden, Kenneth
Markfelder, Boyd
Marr, Elmer
Marrow, Dale
Marsh, Clyde
Marsh, Monroe
Marte, Elmer
Martin, Albert
Martin, Albert M.
Martin, Alvin R.
Martin, Ellsworth
Martin, Gerald
Martin, Joe Melen
Martin, Lynn
Martin, Milo
Martin, Milton
Martin, Robert
Martin, William F.
McConoughey, Lloyd
McCoy, Arthur
McCoy, Harry M.
McGillivray, Paul
McGillivray, Willard
McGivern, James
McGivern, Pat
McGivern, William E.
McGlaughlin, Robert
McGowan, Robert
McGuire, Bernard J.
McKelvey, Clarence
McKelvey, James
McKelvey, Robert
McNair, James
Meech, Harold
Meech, Vernon
Mertens, Clarence
Mertens, David
Mertens, Floyd
Messer, Dorothy H.
Messer, Robert W.
Messer, Webster E.
Messer, Wesley G.
Messer, Wilbur
Metzler, Bernard
Meyers, Ed
Michalek, Leo
Midthun, Norman M.
Mikulski, Peter
Miller, Clarence
Miller, Eldon
Miller, Emily
Miller, Glenn R.
Miller, Jay E.
Miller, Loren W.
Miller, Mark
Miller, N. A.
Miller, Raymond
Miller, Rodney
Miller, Roland
Miller, Russell
Miller, Wallace
Milton, Duane
Milton, Eldridge
Milton, Richard
Mohler, Dale
Mohler, Roland
Montay, Frances
Moores, Eugene D.
Morris, Francis W.
Morris, Stanley
Morrison, Clayton
Morrison, Frank Jr.
Morrison, George
Morrison, Gerald E.
Morrison, John
Morrison, Merle K.
Morrison, Russell
Morrow, Dale
Mortenson, Robert
Mosman, Glen
Mosman, Loren
Motzko, Edward
Motzko, John
Motzko, Louis
Motzko, Steve N.
Motzko, Vincent
Moulton, Stephen
Mraz, William
Mullaley, Clarence
N
Nelson, Burton
Nelson, Charles
Nelson, Glen
Nelson, Gordon
Nelson, Leo L.
Nelson, Steven A.
Nichols, Clair
Nichols, Walter
Nims, Jay Jr.
Noble, John C.
Noble, Raymond E.
Nordstrom, Vernon
Noska, Elmer
Noska, Harry
Nurnberger, Wilfred
Nygren, Arnold
O
O’Leary, Dr. J. H.
Oberg, Everett
Oberg, Victor
Odden, Gerald L.
Oldenberg, Robert G.
Oldenberg, Rudy
Olson, Alvin M.
Olson, Duane
Olson, Leonard P.
Olson, Melvin W.
Olson, Wyman
Omlie, Harold
Overby, Louis
P
Page, Charles
Page, George
Palasik, Martin
Palmeteer, Harold
Palmeteer, Leroy
Pappas, George
Parrot, William
Pattison, Orlo
Pattison, Robert
Paulson, Lars
Paulson, Leon
Paulson, Paul
Pavlacky, M. D.
Pederson, Harold
Pederson, Lawrence
Peirce, Edgar
Peirce, Kathyrn
Peltier, Glen
Penn, Lawrence
Perfetti, James
Perry, Harvey
Peterson, Alvin
Peterson, Arnold C.
Peterson, Bernard
Peterson, Clarence
Peterson, Clifford
Peterson, Darwin
Peterson, Donald W.
Peterson, Harland S.
Peterson, Harold
Peterson, Norman
Peterson, Richard
Peterson, Virgil
Petre, Rudolph
Petroske, Leonard
Petroske, Norman
Pflueger, Paula
Piere, Mervin
Piere, Willis
Pohl, Alfred
Pohl, Kenneth
Pohl, Theodore M.
Polkinghorn, Richard
Pribbenow, Clarence
Pribbenow, Ivan
Pribbenow, Lawrence
Pribbenow, Russell
Pribbenow, Russell W.
Prindle, Glen
Prindle, Lyle
Prindle, Marion
Prokes, George
Q
Quance, Arthur
Quance, Harvey
R
Raney, Margaret
Read, Chester
Read, Paul C.
Reichel, Joseph A.
Reichel, Marcella
Rengel, John
Richter, Eugene
Richter, James H.
Rickard, Orville E.
Ringler, Douglas
Ringler, Jerry
Robbers, George
Robideaux, Hershal
Robinson, Glen
Robinson, Virgil
Robinson, Wray R.
Rood, Albert
Rosch, William
Roscoe, Gerald
Rosevink, Melvin
Roth, Paul I.
Round, Wallace
Rubel, Warren
Ryan Richard
Rydberg, Curt J.
S
Sapp, Roy
Sarff, Ivan
Sarff, John
Sather, Alfred
Sather, Henry
Sather, Milo
Sautbine, Willis T.
Scharf, Gordon C.
Schmidt, Paul
Schmitt, James
Schoenberg, Delores
Schribner, Donald
Schroeder, Charles
Schroeder, Norman
Schroeder, Willard
Schultenover, Harold
Schultz, James
Schultz, Margaret
Scribner, Warren
Seeley, Douglas
Sellnow, Arthur R.
Sellnow, Edward
Sellnow, Lawrence
Sellnow, Robert
Severson, Lyman
Severson, Percy L.
Shannon, Vernon
Shannon, Walter
Sharkey, Forrest S.
Shipley, Elmer
Shipley, Everett
Shore, Glen G.
Simkins, Charlie
Simpson, N. J.
Simpson, Oliver
Sims, Howard Jr.
Sims, Troy D.
Sjordal, Robert
Skaife, William F.
Skinner, Dr. M. E.
Skinner, Robert
Sklenicka, Leonard
Smithlin, Delmar
Snyder, Charles
Soefner, John F.
Sowers, Everett L.
Spencer, Craig
Spreiter, John R.
St. John, James
St. John, Phillip
Stammer, Glen E.
Steindel, Clarence J.
Steindel, Joseph
Stevens, Ernest E.
Stevens, Percy
Stickney, Erwin L.
Stickney, Glen W.
Stickney, Lawrence
Stimson, Warren M.
Stolhanske, Laurel
Stolhanske, Robert
Stone, Gordon
Stone, Philip M.
Stowe, Wallace
Strand, Arthur
Strand, Robert
Strand, Rollin
Struck, Charles
Svendson, Warren H.
Swanson, Byron
Swanson, Clifford
Swanson, James
Sweeney, Craig
Sweeney, David
Sweeney, Donald
Sweeney, Gerald
Sweeney, Hugh
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Tabery, Lloyd A.
Tevlin, Clarence
Thiel, Gerald
Thiel, Joyce
Thiel, Orville
Thiel, Roland B.
Tholl, Arthur A.
Tholl, Marcus
Tholl, Norbert P.
Tholl, Vincent
Thomas, Merle
Thompson, Clarence
Thompson, Denny
Thompson, Donald E.
Thompson, Josef B.
Thompson, Julian
Thompson, Leroy
Thompson, Vernon
Thomson, Harley F.
Thomson, James B.
Thorburn, Gordon L.
Thorsett, Clifford
Thorsett, Donald
Thorsett, Elmer
Toohey, William
Topp, Franklin
Topp, Wesley
Tower, James
Trana, Henry
Trana, Norman
Tronson, Gordon
Trout, Clifford
Tucker, Chester
Tucker, James
Tyndal Allan
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VanDorn, Charles A.
VanDorn, Forrest
Vasecka, John F.
Vasecka, Thomas
Vogel, Harold
Volk, John
Volk, Lawrence
Volk, Thomas
Volstead, Henry
Voorhis, John
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Wagner, Edward
Walker, Harold
Warden, Kenneth
Wavers, Edward
Wax, Marcus
Weaver, Lyle
Weishalla, John
Weishalla, Leo
Wentworth, James
Westin, Larry
Wetherell, Clifford
Wetherell, George
Wetherell, Loren R.
Wetherell, Louis
Wetherell, Melvin C.
Wiebesick, Charles
Wiebesick, Martin
Williams, Albert B.
Williams, Alfred
Williams, Alvin
Williams, Charles
Williams, James
Williams, Ralph E.
Williams, Raymond
Williams, Robert
Williams, Thomas M. Jr.
Wilson, Roger
Wiltrout, Albert
Wiltrout, Frank L.
Wiltrout, John
Wiltrout, Merle D.
Wiltrout, Norman K.
Wold, Alfred
Wold, Clifford
Wold, Herbert
Wold, Sherman
Worle, George
Wrede, Leonard
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Yager, Chester
Yager, Edward H.
Yeske, John
Young, Donald
Z
Zimmerman, Lawrence
Zimmerman, Leonard
To these brave men who were killed in action paid the ultimate sacrifice.
May we always remember.
Anderson, Delbert
Bahle, Jay M.
Baird, Howard
Boehe, J.M.
Brostrom, Wayne
Burke, Albert F.
Carpenter, Charles E.
Collison, Harold
Fox, Lynn B.
Gripne, John J.
Gripne, Roy W.
Jaglo, Frank
Kliem, Ralph
Langer, Joseph
Larson, Harry W.
Lee, George
Luiten, Lloyd
Lyons, John A.
Malfeo, Marvin
Miller, Maynard
Morrison, Roy
Noska, Henry
Pavlacky, Marlo D.
Pribbenow, Milo
Skinner, George C.
Skinner, Norman
Sklenicka, Lyle F.
Storhaugen, John
Svendson, Theodore
Sweeney, Robert
Voorhis, George C.
Zetah, Duane