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• He was born on November 8, 1926 in farm, in proximo, Thompson, Winnebago Co., IA.
• He died on April 6, 2000 in Phoenix, Maricopa Co., AZ, he was 73 years old.
• He is buried after April 6, 2000 in Buffalo Twp., Winnebago Co., IA (Olena Mound Cem.).
• A child of Gerhard Diederich Heitland and Harmka Pastour
• This information was last updated on May 25, 2014.

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Huxley W. Heitland

Source: Leibrand, Ruth, et. al., Celebrate a Century Buffalo Center, Iowa Centennial 1892 - 1992, (Publication location: Buffalo Center IA, Publisher: Centennial Book Committee, Publication date: MCMXCII), pg. 299, Repository: Dallas TXPub. Lib.

'Now Huxley [11th], the youngest, will bring an end to this history. Shortly after graduation in 1945 he went to the U.S. Army in the Field Artillery serving time in Philippines and Japan. He received his discharge in June 1946. Hethen went to work in men's clothing stores mostly, and eventually went into the insurance business. He never married and now makes his home in Phoenix, Arizona.'

1945 - 18 = 1927

2 Feb 1995 - "of Phoenix, Arizona."

Obituaries, Buffalo Center (Ia.) Tribune, Vol. 109 # 6, 27 Apr 2000, pg. 11 col. 1

"Huxley W. Heitland, 73 ... was born November 8, 1926 on a farm near Thompson to George and Harmka Heitland. He spent eight years in country schools and graduated from the Buffalo Center school system in 1944.

Huxley spent three years in the Armed Forces during World War II. Most of this time was spent in Japan.

He spent the first half of his working years in sales, mostly insurance and the remainder managing a private club in Phoenix, Arizona.

A few years ago he suffered some strokes and along with severe diabetes, his condition deteriorated to a point where it became necessary to spend his last few months in a care and rehabilitation center in Phoenix. He passed away there onThursday, April 6, 2000.

Interment was at Olena Mound Cemetery in Buffalo Center.

He leaves to mourn three brothers: Joe and his wife, Ruth, and Al and his wife, Dorothy, all of Buffalo Center; Forrest and his wife, Alberta, of Oelwein; many nephews and nieces, and many, many friends.

He was preceded in death by his parents, four sisters and three brothers.""The Conflux of Crosses," Buffalo Center (Iowa) Tribune, Vol. 123 # 21, 21 May 2014, pg. 6 cols. 2 & 3

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"World War II, 1941 - 1946"

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"... Huxley W. Heitland ..."

If, as the obituary has written, Huxley spent most of his 3-year time in the Armed Forces in Japan in WWII, he may have been a prisioner of war. The only way U.S. military personnel and the military personnel of our allies spent time onthe ground in Japan before the surrender was signed on the Battleship Missouri on 2 Sept. 1945 would have been as a prisioner of the Empire of Japan. If, however, the obituary was refering to the extended Japanese Empire from theAleutian Islands of Alaska, Wake Island, the Dutch East Indies, many South Pacific Islands, Korea, and China, French Indo-China, Malasia, Singapore, Burma, &c. then capture by the Japanese would not be meant. <>

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