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The Muskegon Chronicle
Friday, 22 September 1944

         RICHARD E. HILLER
         Killed in Action
         
         Reported on July 19 as missing in action,
       RICHARD E. HILLER, electrician's mate 3/c,
       21 years old, of Muskegon, was killed in
       action on June 8, 1944, the navy department
       has notified his sister, MRS. HERBERT SCHAEFER,
       2090 Morton avenue.
         MR. HILLER was serving on the destroyer
       escort Rich, sunk off the French coast by
       enemy action. A buddy of HILLER'S from Bay
       City contacted by MRS. SCHAEFER, said that
       the Muskegon man was instantly killed. His
       body was not recovered.
         Known to his friends as BEN, MR. HILLER,
       born in Detroit on January 9, 1923, spent
       his childhood in Brohman and was graduated
       from Baldwin high school in 1942. Since then
       he made his home with his sister, MRS. Schaefer,
       and was employed by the George Morrell corpor-
       ation when he enlisted in January 1943. After
       boot training at Great Lakes, Ill., he was
       sent to Norfolk, Va., and assigned to sea
       duty. 
         Surviving are his sister, MRS> SCHAEFER,
       of Muskegon; three brothers, CHESTER HILLER,
       Detroit; DONALD B. HILLER, F 1/c, serving
       on a minesweeper in the Atlantic, and ENSIGN
       WILLIAM HILLER, at navy air station, Atlanta,
       Ga.; and his grandmother, MRS. MARY CROSS,
       Muskegon.
       
       Transcriber's Note: His body wasn't recovered
       but there is a memorial stone erected at
       Hiller Cemetery, Newaygo County, MI.
       
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