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Pvt Bernie Dale Templin

Birth
    7 Jul 1918
    Manilla, Crawford County, Iowa, USA
Death
    26 Mar 1942 (aged 23)
    San Francisco, San Francisco County, California, USA
Burial
    Laurel Hill Cemetery
    Neligh, Antelope County, Nebraska, USA 

Memorial ID
    80925719 · View Source

He is the son of George Wallace and Dorthea (Steckleberg) Templin.

He served in the U. S. Military as a Private assigned to the 57th Field
Artillery.

Neligh News, Neligh, Nebraska, Thursday, April 2, 1942
PVT. BERNIE TEMPLIN SUCCUMBS AS RESULT OF FREAK ARMY ACCIDENT
The War Department last Thursday notified Walt G. Templin by telegram of
the death of his son, Bernie, 22 , at the Letterman General Hospital, San
Francisco, California. Templin, a private, was drafted and called into
service last October from the state of Oregon. The circumstances under
which Templin met his death were described by the War Department chaplain
at the Letterman Hospital as the result of a freak accident that occurred
March 12th. It appears that he and another solider, both stationed at Camp
McQuaide, California, were having a friendly scuffle when Bernie slipped
and fell and the other man fell on top of him. Bernie suffered a fractured
spine with injury to the spinal cord and the resulting paralysis failed
to respond to treatment ending in his death March 26th. His only brother,
Warrant Officer Wallace Templin, who is station at Portland, Oregon, went
to the bedside of his brother and was with him most of the fourteen days
preceeding his death. The message to the father stated also that his son's
wife was with him to the last. It was the first news the senior Templin
had of his son's marriage. Bernie left Neligh about six years ago for Idaho
where he worked for a time and later went to Oregon where he was employed
in a lead mine at the time he was called into the army on October 1st under
the selective service law. The Templin family came to Neligh in 1919 and
resided on a farm north of here until Mrs. Templin passed away about eight
years ago, whereupon they moved to town. Bernie was employed for a time
at the local Union Store as clerk and later by A. W. Kindler who operated
a delivery service, then he left for Idaho. The boy's body was returned
to Neligh for burial. Funeral was today (Wednesday) and the Antelope Post
of the American Legion had charge at the grave. Templin was born 7 July
1919, at Manila, Iowa. Besides his father, Walt G. Templin of Neligh, he
is survived by his widow of San Francisco; two sisters Miss Goldie Templin
and Mrs. Lyle Daniels, of Fremont, Nebraska, and one brother, Wallace, of
Portland, Oregon. Templin's death is the first fatality, at the present,
from this community and the second from Antelope County . Donald Yates,
Clearwater, was the first in the county. He was lost on the U.S.S. Houston
in the Java sea.

Family Members
Parents

    George Wallace Templin
    1876–1959

    Dorthea Sophia "Dora" Steckleberg Templin
    1884–1934

Siblings

    Alberta Catherine Templin
    1909–1918

    Wallace William "Dutch" Templin
    1911–1992

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