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- The Nelson Gazette (Nelson, NE), Thursday, May 8, 1969; pg. 8
FORMER NELSON RESIDENT DIES IN WAR ACTION
A former Nelson resident has been killed in hostile action in Vietnam, Maj. Francis E. Stewart 36, son of the Rev. and Mrs. E.B. Stewart of Eagle, was killed April 30
Maj. Stewart according to the Defense Department died when his aircraft crashed after being hit by enemy fire.
Major Stewart was born at Altoona, Iowa June 19, 1932. He was a 1949 graduate of the Nelson, Nebraska High School and graduated from Nebraska Wesleyan University in 1953. Stewart had been in the Air Force for 16 years and in Vietnam for 5 weeks.
Besides his parents, Maj. Stewart is survived by his widow, Rhoda, two daughters, 9 and 7, a son 4, all in Sacramento, California, brothers, Gene of New York, Dean of Utica, Nebr., and Terry of Rising City, Nebr.; and a sister, Mrs. R.H. Drew of St. Petersburg, Florida.
Maj. Stewart was a member of the United Methodist Church.
Memorial services were held Sunday at 11:00 a.m. at the United Methodist Church there, where "Fran" as he liked to be called, had charge of the church's full year recreation program while he was in training in that area for five years.
Fran's parents, his sister and three brothers plan to go to California for the funeral.
Those from Nelson who attended Memorial Services in Eagle Sunday, were Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Mumma, Mrs. Lena Conner, Mrs. Bertha Portwood, Mrs. Pearl Clem and Miss Alice Ruddell.
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Francis Ernest Stewart Major United States Air Force
Assigned to the 16th Tactical Reconnaissance Squadron, 460 Tactical Reconnaissance Wing, 7th Air Force
Hometown of Record; Sterling, Nebraska
Arrived in country; in Vietnam on 3-11-1969 and died when his aircraft was shot down over Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam
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Also taken from inscription next to flower left:
Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall Panel 26W Line 083
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