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Home Town Hambleton
Date of Passing Apr 22, 2004
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Snowden Warren Wilfong, 82, of Hambleton, died April 22 at his home. He had been in declining health and death was attributed to cancer.
He was born Wednesday, Aug. 31, 1921, at Jenningston, a son of the late Sampson Wilfong and Lena Moyers Wilfong. During 1951, he was married to Elizabeth Miller Wilfong, who preceded him in death in 1984. On June 16, 1990, at Maryland, he was mar ried to Annis Wilson Wilfong, who survives.
Also surviving are a niece raised as a daughter, Anna Lee Serafin of Lodi, OH; one brother-in-law, Jason Miller of Parsons; and several nieces and nephews.
He was the last surviving member of his immediate family having been preceded in death by several brothers and sisters.
He attended the one-room school at Jenningston and the school at Hambleton. He was a veteran of the U.S. Army during World War II, and was a lifetime member of the Veterans of Foreign war. He was a former employee of the Republic Steel of Cleveland, OH, retiring in 1982. He attended the First Baptist Church at Parsons.
The family received friends at the Lohr & Barb Funeral Home of Parsons where final rites were conducted at the funeral home parlor with Pastor Allen D. Crosten officiating and interment followed at the Mountain State Memorial Gardens at Gilman.
WWII - European Theater of Operations/Naples-Foggia Campaign (1943-44)
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August / 1943
To Month/Year
January / 1944
Description (Naples-Foggia Campaign 18 Aug 1943-21 Jan 1944 (Air); 9 Sep 1943-21 Jan 1944 (Ground) After Allied bombardment of communications and airfields in Italy, Montgomery crossed the Strait of Messina on 3 September 1943 and started northward. Five days later Eisenhower announced that the Italian Government had surrendered. Fifth Army, under Clark, landed at Salerno on g September and managed to stay despite furious counterattacks. By 18 September the Germans were withdrawing northward. On 27 September Eighth Army occupied the important airfields of Foggia, and on I October Fifth Army took Naples. As the Allies pushed up the peninsula, the enemy slowed the advance and brought it to a halt at the Gustav Line.
