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Suburban Pearl Harbor casualties

Suburban families suffered plenty of sorrow after the attack on Pearl Harbor as they learned of young men who had been killed. Here are members of the military from the suburbs who died on Dec. 7, 1941 at Pearl Harbor.

Aurora

Robert William Apple

Walter Howard Backman

Eugene James Fitzsimmons

Batavia

Francis Severin Alberovsky

Calumet City

June Winton Parker

Chicago Heights

Joseph Bajorims

Cicero

Joseph Philip Steffan

Downers Grove

Bernard Arthur Weier

Elgin

Bruce Dean Bradley

Richard Frederick Jacobs

Evanston

Harold Jensen Christopher

Glen Ellyn

William Fred Gusie

Grayslake

Herbert Jacobson

Joliet

Louis Clarence Cabay

Michael Galajdik

Edward Webb Gosselin

Steven Joseph Wodarski

Melrose Park

Frank Peter Yomine

Niles

Edward Stephen Lawrence

North Chicago

Frank Norman Floege

Oak Park

Roy Arthur Gross

St. Charles

Leslie Phillip Delles

Charles LeRoy Thompson

Waukegan

John Herbert Lindsley

Woodstock

Thomas William Lounsbury

Sources: USSArizona.org; HonorStates.org; Kane County Veterans Virtual Memorial

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