Bernie Dale Templin

1918 - 1942  (23 years)

• Name	Bernie Dale Templin  [1]
  Birth	7 Jul 1918	Manilla, Crawford Co., Iowa, USA   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Death	26 Mar 1942	San Francisco, San Francisco Co., California, USA   [1]
  	Address: Letterman General Hospital San Francisco, California USA
  Burial	1 Apr 1942	Neligh, Antelope Co., Nebraska, USA   [1]
  		Headstone of Bernnie D. Templin
  Obituary	2 Apr 1942	Neligh, Antelope Co., Nebraska, USA   [1]
  	Neligh News
  	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.
  Person ID	I9878	Rumsey/Ballou Family Tree
  Last Modified	29 Jun 2012

  
  

  Father	George Wallace Templin,   b. 1 Sep 1877, Jonesboro, Washington Co., Tennessee, USA d. 8 Jan 1959, Neligh, Antelope Co., Nebraska, USA (Age 81 years)
  Mother	Dorthea Sophia Steckleberg,   b. 10 Mar 1884, Avoca, Pottawattamie Co., Iowa, USA d. 3 Oct 1934, Neligh, Antelope Co., Nebraska, USA (Age 50 years)
  Marriage	26 Oct 1907  [2, 3]
  Family ID	F3327	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	[Wife of Bernie Templin]
  Family ID	F3571	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	29 Jun 2012

  
  

• Event Map		Birth - 7 Jul 1918 - Manilla, Crawford Co., Iowa, USA Death - Address: Letterman General Hospital San Francisco, California USA - 26 Mar 1942 - San Francisco, San Francisco Co., California, USA Burial - 1 Apr 1942 - Neligh, Antelope Co., Nebraska, USA Obituary - Neligh News - 2 Apr 1942 - Neligh, Antelope Co., Nebraska, USA  = Link to Google Earth
  Pin Legend	: Address       : Location       : City/Town       : County/Shire       : State/Province       : Country       : Not Set

  
  

• Sources

  [S748] Find A Grave, (Find A Grave, Inc.), 29 Jun 2012, entry for gravestone of Pvt. Bernie Dale Templin, 1918-1942. [S547] WorldConnect, (RootsWeb), 8 Aug 2010, "TEMPLIN FAMILY GENEALOGY" (mtt8 database), submitted by Marvin and Samme Templin [MTTemplin@aol.com], last updated 13 Mar 2010. [S748] Find A Grave, (Find A Grave, Inc.), 29 Jun 2012, entry for gravestone of Dorthea Sophia Dora Steckleberg Templin, 1884-1934.