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The Goldendale Sentinel, Goldendale, WA., August 1, 1946, page 1

FUNERAL RITES HELD MONDAY FOR DRESSEL BROTHERS

After being accorded a final tribute by their countless friends, Corporals George and Vincent Dressel were laid to rest in the Legion burial plot in the Goldendale I.O.O.F. cemetery Monday.
The two signal corps T/5's, who lost their lives when the transport plane they were riding crashed near Goodland, Kansas, were brought to Goldendale last Saturday afternoon, accompanied by a military escort.
Rosary services were held in the Holy Trinity Catholic church Sunday evening and the funeral mass was conducted in the church Monday at 10 a.m. by Father Hamilton.
The city, showing its high regard for the brothers, was almost completely at a standstill during the funeral hour as practically all stores and public offices closed.
At the graves in the cemetery, full military honors were accorded, with intimate school and sports friends of the young men serving as pall bearers and firing squad.
E.C. Kaiser, past commander of Leidl Post, American Legion, gave the burial service of that veterans organization.
The pall bearers were William Overly, Jim Spalding, Bud Matsen, __vne Eddy, Robert Bratton, Vernon Divers, Melvin Nordwell, Dan Seitzinger, Daryl Spalding, Frank Divers, Howard Lawson and Jim Bradstreet.
Members of the firing squad were Jim Bridgefarmer, Jim Brooks, Floyd Powell, Robert Linden, Tom Bridgefarmer, and Harold Morgan.
The color guard was composed of Dr. William H. West, R.S. Jackson, Howard Spalding, William McDowell, Harold Hill, and Ray Hill, while dealerbuglers who sounded Taps were Donald Sleeper and Virgil Oltmanns.
Scores of floral tributes completely covered the grave site, bearing mute but beautiful testimony to the warn place which the Dressel boys and their memory - hold in the hearts of the community.