Family/Spouse: Donald Theodore SPLITTSTOESSER. Donald was born on 9 Jul 1907 in Minnesota; died on 20 Jul 1993 in Carlton, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: James Preston BEARDSLEY. James (son of Haskell Edmund BEARDSLEY and Hazel E. SKINNER) was born on 20 Mar 1932 in Oklahoma. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Lorna married Robert Chester LARSON on 4 Oct 1969 in Ramsey, Minnesota, and was divorced on 18 Jan 1984 in Ramsey, Minnesota. Robert (son of Chester Wilhelm LARSON and Sophie GONSOWSKI) was born on 1 Feb 1935 in Saint Paul, Ramsey, Minnesota; died on 7 Mar 2016 in Saint Paul, Ramsey, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Lorna married John Carl HARWELL on 16 Jun 1990 in Hennepin, Minnesota. John was born on 30 Nov 1940; died on 21 Nov 2009; was buried in Fort Snelling Natl. Cemetery, Minneapolis, Hennepin, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Lavonna Gay GRAW. Lavonna was born on 21 Aug 1959. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

James married Dianna Mae DEHMER on 8 Sep 1989 in Anoka Co., Minnesota. Dianna (daughter of Vernon Eugene DEHMER and Myrna Lou NESS) was born on 3 Jan 1965. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 2016, Elberfeld, Warrick, Indiana

Family/Spouse: Mr. HATFIELD. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

The Department of Defense announced today the death of a soldier who was supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom.
Sergeant William J. Beardsley, 25, of Coon Rapids, Minnesota, died February 26, 2007, in Diwaniyah, Iraq, of wounds suffered when an improvised explosive device detonated near his vehicle.Beardsley was assigned to the 260th Quartermaster Battalion, 3rd Sustainment Troop Brigade, 3rd Infantry Division, Fort Stewart, Georgia.
(source: Arlington National Cemetery).

TULSA, Okla. — A soldier with Minnesota ties who was killed by a roadside bomb in Iraq this week was a native Oklahoman who lived briefly in Coon Rapids, Minn., where he worked as a landscape contractor.
 Army Sgt. William “B.J.” Beardsley, 25, a Muskogee native, was seven months into his first tour of duty in Iraq when he was killed Monday, according to the Defense Department. He was due back home next month on leave, family members said.
 “At 25, you got the rest of your life ahead of you, why not enjoy it, right?” said Beardsley’s aunt, Charlotte Guinn of Tahlequah.
 Enlisting in the military at 18, Beardsley was planning to become a career soldier, his family said. He spent three years stationed in South Korea and at Fort Campbell, Ky.
 He left the Army briefly in 2005 to work as a landscape contractor with his father in Coon Rapids but decided the military life was for him, said his mother, Lavonna Harper. So he re-enlisted last May and eventually shipped out for Iraq.
 At first, he believed the U.S. cause in Iraq was just, Harper said. But just a few weeks ago, Harper received an e-mail from him that said he couldn’t make sense anymore of why he was over there.
 “I wrote him back and told him to be careful and keep his head down and his butt covered,” Harper said. “I asked him what he needed me to send and when he was coming home.” She never got a response.
 Beardsley was born in Muskogee. When he was 5, he moved with his mother and stepfather — a career military man himself — to Germany and Georgia. He returned to Oklahoma when he was 16, moving to Tahlequah. He was married at 20 and recently divorced, his family said. Harper said her son was a devoted father to his two kids, enjoyed weightlifting and riding motorcycles.
 “I’ll miss talking to him, hearing his voice, touching him, just hearing me say the words ‘I love you, son,’” Harper said. “When they’re gone, it’s like ‘Oh my God.’”
 Beardsley was assigned to the 260th Quartermaster Battalion, 3rd Sustainment Troop Brigade, 3rd Infantry Division of Fort Stewart, Ga. He was the 52nd person with strong Minnesota ties to die in connection with the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

William married Stacy A. NORMAN in 2001, and was divorced. Stacy (daughter of Mr. NORMAN and Jacki) was born est 1981. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Cassie married Jamie BORDEN on 9 Dec 2005. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]