Mount Ephraim War Memorial

Branch: Army Air Force Service Number: 32077440 Rank: Staff Sergeant Unit: 14 th  Air Force, 308 th  Bombardment Group, 425 th  Bombardment Squadron  George John Ocavage was born on March 2, 1919 in New Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was the youngest child of Lithuanian immigrants John and Margaret  (Juodzius) Ocavage . His parents had a total of 14 children, but sadly five had perished at a very young age. George had several sisters (Helen, Mary, Margaret, Agnes, Frances, Marcella, and Anna) and a brother, Anthony. The family lived at 6 Wiggan Street in  New Philadelphia, located  approximately 70 miles northwest of Philadelphia. This was  a small coal-mining community located in Schuylkill County. Most of the town residents at that time were also of Lithuanian descent. His father was employed as a miner at the nearby Silver Creek Coal Mine. John passed at the age of 55, due to lung and kidney disease just prior to George's second birthday.   The Ocavage child

Branch: ARMY Service Number: 32265060  Rank: Private First Class Unit: 816th Tank Destroyer Battalion Buck Residence 359 Shedaker St. (left) Richard Vincent Buck was born on October 31, 1915 in Philadelphia, PA to parents William Henry Buck III and Lydia Spencer Bowes. The family lived in the 359 Shedaker Street in the Germantown section of Philadelphia.  William was a tool maker and machinist for the Midvale Steel Company in Philadelphia while Lydia tended to her home and 4 boys.  William Henry IV, the eldest of the Buck children was born in 1909, Edward Norman born in 1913, Richard in 1915, and lastly, Victor Quinton was born in 1917. In early February 1920, Richard's mother  was not feeling well.   On the 10th of February, Doctor T. Carroll Davis came by the house to diagnose and treat her illness.  Lydia  was suffering from influenza and her condition only worsened by contracting pneumonia.  Just one week later, she died  at the age of 39.   A heartbroken