Richard Rothmeyer

Enlistment December 2, 1941
Discharge October 28, 1944

Manning Monitor article------ 1945

Five-Star-Flag In Manning Window
Rothmeyer Sons in Widely Scattered Theatres
The five-star service flag in the window of the Mr. and Mrs. John Rothmeyer home at 714 First street, Manning, represents members of the family serving in theatres of operation throughout the world.
Those represented in the flag include four sons and a son-in-law, and their careers read something like this:

1. S. Sgt. Richard Rothmeyer entered the army Dec. 1, 1941, was in Alaska and the Aleutians for 18 months and got a medical discharge at Fort Benning, Ga., Oct. 28, 1944; after nearly three years of service.
2. Cpl. Andrew Rothmeyer entered the army June 4, 1942, was at Fort Riley, Kans., three months then went overseas and arrived in England in September 1942. He has been in France and is now in Germany.
3. Pfc. Mathias Rothmeyer entered the army April 4, 1944, and was stationed in camps in California and Texas until January 1945 and is now on duty in the Hawaiian Island's.
4. Walter Rothmeyer joined the navy April 4, 1945, and is taking boot training at the Great Lakes, Ill., naval training center.
5. Sgt. Edward Proulx, a son-in-law, is in the army and has been overseas since June 1944. For a time he was stationed in India and now is in Burma.

RICHARD ROTHMEYER Richard Eugene Rothmeyer, 80 (born 1918), of Perry died of a respiratory ailment Wednesday, April 28, 1999, at home. Services will be at 10 a.m. Monday at Assumption Catholic Church in Granger, with burial at Violet Hill Cemetery in Perry, Iowa.

Mr. Rothmeyer was born in Calmar and lived in Perry 39 years. He retired from Oscar Mayer and previously worked for Moorman's Feed.

He was an Army veteran and a member of St. Patrick's Catholic Church, American Legion, Knights of Columbus, Floyd Foster Veterans of Foreign Wars, and Disabled American Veterans.

He is survived by his wife, Leonora (Naberhaus); five sons, Richard of Wake Village, Texas, Ronald of Carter Lake, Vincent of Denison, and John and Jerry, both of Perry; seven daughters, Elizabeth Chayet of Des Moines, Rose Bingaman of Pewaukee, Wisconsin, Barbara Butler of Perry, Margaret Ure of Newhall, Marilyn Long of Guthrie Center, Ruth Von Guerard of Roscoe, Illinois, and Donna Clausen of DeWitt; two brothers, Matthew of Glidden, and Robert of Bel Air; a sister, Vernie Price of Storm Lake; 32 grandchildren; and 19 great-grandchildren.

Friends may call from noon to 9 p.m. Sunday at Hastings Funeral Home in Perry, where the family will be present from 6 to 9 p.m. There will be a 2:30 p.m. rosary and a 7 p.m. vigil service. Memorial contributions may be made to St. Patrick's Renovation or Hospice of Hope.