Joseph Matthew Trecker

Master Sergeant - Marine Corps
Enlistment December 26, 1941
Discharge January 5, 1946

Manning Monitor article------ 1943

Joseph Trecker Honored
Joseph M. Trecker, a marine private, son of Mr. and Mrs. Peter Trecker of Templeton, has been graduated from the Aviation Radio School as the honor man of his class, at the United States Naval air station, Jacksonville, Florida.

He will be assigned as a radio-man-gunner to a marine aircraft squadron.
Joe attended the Manning schools and was employed at the Brown-McDonald Store here.

Joe Trecker Completes Basic Pvt. Joe J. Trecker writes from Miami Beach, that he received his Monitor for the first time and sends his thanks to the Legion and the Monitor for it.

Joe adds that he is in his last 2 weeks of basic training and expects to be sent to some college for pre-flight.
He likes the army air "corps fine. He sends regards to all his friends at home.

Manning Monitor article------ 1945

Based in Marianas April 11, 1945.
Dear Sirs:
Received the Monitor yesterday for the first time. To express my gratitude for having news from home by saying how much I appreciated it would hardly be enough.
If there is something I can do to show my thanks I will gladly comply.
As you know, I am based here in the Marianas Islands and have pulled quite a few missions to Tokyo to date. About what I experienced and saw I cannot tell in this letter but the papers have carried a fair account.

The temperature here is moderate and after getting used to it, you really like it. We are still living in tents but have huts under construction so it won't be long.
With best regards to all my friends and once again a million thanks for sending the paper.
Yours truly,
Joe J. Trecker.


PROMOTED
Carroll Daily Times Herald, Carroll, Iowa, July 18, 1942
Joseph M. Trecker, son of Mr. and Mrs. Peter Trecker of Templeton, who has been stationed at Jacksonville, Florida, for the past four months, has been promoted to corporal. He is now at Norfolk, Virginia, where he is attending five months' advanced radio school.

Joseph Trecker
Joseph Matthew Trecker, 82, of Sun City West, Arizona, died Monday, December 29, 2003, at Sun Health Hospice Care. Mr. Trecker was born in Templeton, Iowa, July 3, 1921, to Peter and Katherine (Kohorst) Trecker.

He served in the United States Marine Corps during World War II, after which he was employed as an Electrical Engineer at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

He and his wife, Anetha, moved to Arizona in 1983. His wife passed away in 1997. They were members of Our Lady of Lourdes Parish.

In 1998, Joseph married Margaret Schneider, who survives him. Joseph is survived by four sons: Steven of Kailua, Hawaii; Stanley of Brookline, Massachusetts; Keith of Kildeer, Illinois; James of New Prague, Minnesota; one daughter: Nancy Herrin of Keizer, Oregon; two sisters: Dorothy Dillon of Fairfield Bay, Alaska; Kathleen Walsh of Torrance, California; thirteen grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.

A Memorial Mass will be celebrated at 1:00 P.M. on Saturday, January 3, 2004, in Our Lady of Lourdes Church, 19002 N. 128th Avenue, Sun City West, Arizona.

Memorials may be sent to the St. Vincent de Paul Society at Our Lady of Lourdes Church. Arrangements handled by Camino del Sol Funeral Chapel.

He is buried with his wife, Anetha, at the Sacred Heart Cemetery, Templeton, Iowa.

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