Capt. Losey's Body Taken To
Sweden
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The body of Capt. Robert M. Losey, U. S. military attache who was killed by a bomb splinter at Dombas, Norway, Sunday,1 was given a military escort to the Swedish border Tuesday.
The United States legation said Capt. Losey's body was being carried in a small car over rough, snow-covered back roads of the Trondheim battle area, through Roeros, Norway, to the village of Fjellnas on the Swedish frontier where a Swedish guard of honor was to received it from the Norwegians. The body will be taken by train to Stockholm.
The funeral car avoided main roads because German planes are heavily bombing the entire region.
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Capt. Losey was a descendant of one of the pioneer families of Nelson, Tioga County, Pa. His great-grandfather Artemus Losey founded a saw mill and wood working shop 125 years ago at Nelson which was then called Beechers Island. The business was carried on by a son, James Losey,2 who died about 30 years ago.
Capt. Losey's father, the Rev. Leon Losey,3 was born in Nelson attended the high school there. He was graduated from Mansfield State Normal School and prepared for the ministry at Princeton University. After his graduation, he served three charges in New York State before he moved to Arizona where he died.
Transcribed by Wm. Thompson, Sept. 25, 2014
1. Robert Moffat Losey was born May 5, 1908 in Andrew, Jackson Co., IA, and died April 21, 1940 in Dombas, Norway, while observing the Battle of Trondheim -- in which the German Army & Luftwaffe defeated the Norwegians and their British allies. His death was national and international news and was on the front page of the New York Times. There's a lot about him on the Internet, such as The First American Official Killed in This War.
2. James Taggert Losey was born 1843 in Tioga Co., PA & died there Aug 1, 1911. Cousin Cassius Kizer died from a fall from what had been James' mill. You may remember a letter from Cousin Harry Campbell that mentions Jim Losey's shoes.
3. Rev. Leon Artemus Losey was born May 20, 1880 in Tioga Co., PA, died July 8, 1923 in MT -- not AZ. [I never met him, but I met his sister, Lillian LOSEY Preston---wbt.]