Blanche HEGDAL

Martin
1891-1957

Blanche
1898-1972

Martin J.
1921-1944

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*Obituary Martin
Martin Hegdal, 219 Deahl, a resident of Borger since 1933, died early this morning at his home following a lengthy illness. He was 66.

Survivors include his wife, Blanche, of the home; four sons, H.G. and J.D. of Amarillo, Robert of Borger and S/Sgt. James Hegdal, serving with the Army in Bovington, England; one daughter, Natalie of Beaumont; two brothers, Paul of Banning, Calif., and John of Chaflin, Kans.; and four sisters, Mrs. Adolph Johnson and Mrs. Pauline Hilde of Madison, S.D., and Anna and Dora Hegdal of Chicago.

Funeral arrangements with Ed Brown, Funeral Director, are pending.

(Published in Borger News Herald, May 29, 1957)
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Funeral services for Martin Hegdal will be held at 2 p.m. Friday in the Ed Brown Funeral Home chapel. The Rev. H.F. Peiman, pastor of the Trinity Lutheran Church will officiate at the services and interment will be in Highland Park cemetery.

Hegdal, a resident of Borger since 1933, died early Wednesday morning at his home, 219 Deahl.

(Published in Borger News Herald, May 30, 1957)
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South Dakota Births, 1856-1903
Name: Martin Hegdal
Birth Date: 19 Jan 1891
Gender: Male
County: Lake
Father's name: Mathias Hegdal
Mother's name: Anna Dragseth

South Dakota, Marriages, 1905-2013
Name: Martin Hegdal
Gender: Male
Age: 25
Birth Year: abt 1891
Residence Post Office: Madison
Residence Place: Lake
Marriage Date: 14 Nov 1916
Marriage Place: Lake, South Dakota, USA
Certificate: 55268
Registration Number: 10-26
Spouse: Blancke L Dudley

Texas Death Index, 1903-2000
Name: Martin Hegdal
Death Date: 29 May 1957
Death County: Hutchinson
Certificate: 26732

Texas, Death Certificates, 1903–1982
Name: Martin Hegdal
Birth Date: 19 Jan 1891
Birth Place: Madison, South Dakota
Gender: Male
Race: White
Residence: Borger, Hutchinson, Texas
Father: M M Hegdal
Mother: Anna Dragseth
Age at Death: 66
Death Date: 29 May 1957
Death Place: Borger, Hutchinson, Texas, USA

*Obituary Blanche
AMARILLO - Funeral services for Mrs. Blanche Hegdal, 74, Amarillo, who died Wednesday at High Plains Baptist Hospital will be at 2 p.m. Monday from the San Jacinto Methodist Church with Dr. W.W. Adcock, pastor, officiating.

Funeral arrangements were directed by Blackburn-Shaw Funeral Directors of Amarillo. Graveside services will be at 4 p.m. Monday at Highland Park Cemetery.

Mrs. Hegdal, born in Albert Lea, Minn., had lived in Amarillo for the past four years. She had been a resident of Borger for 35 years. Her husband, Martin, died in 1957. She was a member of the San Jacinto Methodist Church.

Survivors include fours sons, Robert and Joe, both of Amarillo; Hayden of Lubbock; and James of Taiwan, Formosa; one daughter, Miss Natalie Hegdal of Los Angeles; 12 grandchildren and two great grandchildren.

(Published in Borger News Herald, May 14, 1972)
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South Dakota, Marriages, 1905-2013
Name: Martin Hegdal
Gender: Male
Age: 25
Birth Year: abt 1891
Residence Post Office: Madison
Residence Place: Lake
Marriage Date: 14 Nov 1916
Marriage Place: Lake, South Dakota, USA
Certificate: 55268
Registration Number: 10-26
Spouse: Blanche L Dudley

Texas Death Index, 1903-2000
Name: Blanche Hegdal
Death Date: 10 May 1972
Death County: Potter
Gender: Female

Texas, Death Certificates, 1903–1982
Name: Blanche Laone Hegdal
[Blanche Laone Dudley]
Birth Date: 26 Jan 1898
Birth Place: Albert Lea, Minnesota
Gender: Female
Race: White
Residence: Amarillo, Randall, Texas
Father: Fred Dudley
Mother: Gertrude Gulliksen
Age at Death: 74
Death Date: 10 May 1972
Death Place: Amarillo, Potter, Texas, USA


*Obituary Martin J.
See memorial at Manila American Cemetery and Memorial for Martin J Hegdal

Word from the war department was received by Mr. and Mrs. Martin Hegdal, notifying them their two sons, Pfc. Martin J., 21, and Private Joseph D., who will be 23 tomorrow, are reported missing.

The brothers, who enlisted Nov. 24, 1939, were in the Philippines, where they had been sent Feb. 14, 1940.

The parents feel certain their sons are prisoners of war. The last direct word they heard from them was a wire advising them "all is well" the day after Christmas. Then on April 29 the Hegdals had word through the Red Cross that they were not on any casualty lists.

Martin, when last heard from was Crew Chief on an A-27 and Joseph was a mechanic in the air corps.

Both of the soldiers attended school in Borger.

(Published in Borger Daily Herald, August 7, 1942)

Mr. and Mrs. Martin Hegdal of Borger received word from the War Department that their son, Pfc. Martin J. Hegdal, was killed on a Japanese transport while being transferred to a different prisoner of war camp. He was stationed at Clark Field in the Philippines when war began and was a veteran of Bataan and Corregidor. He attended the Borger high school and graduated in May, 1939.

The War Department report was:
War Department
The Adjutant General's Office
Washington 25, D.C.
19 June 1945

Mrs. Blanch Hegdal
Borger, Texas

Dear Mrs. Hegdal:

The International Red Cross has transmitted to this government an official list obtained from the Japanese government, after long delay, of American prisoners of war who were lost while being transported northward from the Philippine Islands on a Japanese ship which was sunk on 24 October 1944. It is with deep regret that I inform you that your son, Private First Class Martin J. Hegdal, 6,296,940, Air Corps, was among those lost when that sinking occurred and, in the absence of any probability of survival, must be considered to have lost his life. He will be carried on the records of the War Department as killed in action 24 October 1944. The evidence of his death was received 16 June 1945, the date upon which his pay will terminate and his accounts will be closed.

The information available to the war department is that the vessel sailed from Manila, Philippine Islands, on 11 October 1944 with 1775 prisoners of war aboard. On 24 October 1944 the vessel was sunk by submarine action in the South China Sea over 200 miles from the Chinese coast which was the nearest land. Five of the prisoners escaped in a small boat and reached the coast. Four others have been reported as picked up by the Japanese, by whom all others aboard are reported lost. Absence of detailed information as to what happened to other individual prisoners and the known circumstances of the incident lead to a conclusion that all other prisoners listed by the Japanese as aboard the vessel perished.

It is with deep regret that I must notify you at this unhappy culmination of the long period of anxiety and suffering you have experienced. You have my heartfelt sympathy.

Sincerely yours,
J.A. Ulio
Major General
The Adjutant General of the Army.

(Published in Borger Daily Herald, June 27, 1945)

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