Veterans' Memorial Project

Kenneth William Dickhut

Quincy, IL

World War II

College: Commerce & Business Administration

Graduation Year: 1939

Service Branch: Army

Rank: Lieutenant

Date of Birth: 03/06/1916

Date of Death: 04/25/1946

Lt. Dickhut was inducted on October 7, 1941, in Chicago. He was assigned to Ordnance in the Army. He was killed in a Burlington railroad crash at Naperville, Illinois. He was in service 4 1/2 years, 2 of them in England. Lt. Dickhut was on terminal leave and had been studying at his home for the CPA exam. He had planned to be married in June and rejoin his former employer. Lt. Duckhut is buried at Woodland Cemetery, Quincy, Illinois.

-taken from Illinois Alumni News, June, 1946, and University and public records

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