Agnes SLOSSON

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• Census: 1920, Living with husband in Indianapolis, Marion Co, Indiana
• Census: 1930, Living with husband in Indianapolis, Marion Co, Indiana

Agnes married Alexander Rieman HOLLIDAY in 1907. Alexander was born on 13 Aug 1877 in Indiana, USA; died on 14 Oct 1931 in Indianapolis, Marion Co., Indiana; was buried in Crown Hill Cemetery, Indianapolis, Marion Co., Indiana. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Census: 1920, Living with parents in Indianapolis, Marion Co., Indiana
• Census: 1930, Living with parents in Indianapolis, Marion Co., Indiana

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Ancestry.com - Historical Newspapers; Birth, Marriages & death Announcements, 1851-2003 - New York -

MEMORIAL SERVICE TODAY FOR MRS. METCALFE WALLING

A memorial service will be held at 7:30 P.M. today at St. Matthew's Episcopal Church, Bedford, New York for Mrs. Frances Slosson Holliday Walling, the wife of L. Metcalfe Walling, director for North Africa of the International Executive Service Corps.
Mrs. Walling drowned in a flash flood in El Djem, Tunisia, Oct. 7. She and her husband had been traveling with their son and daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Alexander R.H. Walling. Mrs. Metcalfe Walling, who was 62 years old, was the only victim.
Mrs. Walling, a graduate of Smith College, in recent years had been in charge of the American Field Service program for exchange students in Ghana and earlier had represented The Associated Press and The United Press in Guinea.
Besides her husband and son, she leaves a sister, Mrs. Warman Welliver, and a brother, Alexander R. Holliday. An older son, Lewis Metcalfe Walling Jr., was killed in Vietnam in 1962.

Family/Spouse: Lewis Metcalf WALLING. Lewis was born on 22 Dec 1908; died on 21 Jan 1997. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 1920, Living with parents in Indianapolis, Marion Co., Indiana
• Census: 1930, Living with parents in Indianapolis, Marion Co., Indiana

Other Events and Attributes:

• Birth: Abt 1918, Indiana, USA
• Census: 1920, Living with parents in Indianapolis, Marion Co., Indiana
• Census: 1930, Living with parents in Indianapolis, Marion Co., Indiana

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Together We Served.com: Last Known Activity - 2nd Lt. Walling was aboard an SC-47 on a leaflet-dropping mission that crashed in Vic Bao Mountains while under hostile fire. He was one of nine crew and Army advisors on board.

The following anonymous narrative was posted on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund website on Sunday, November 21, 1999:

"On 11 February 1962 Lewis Walling boarded a USAF C-47 aircraft. The mission was to drop leaflets with a New Year's message from President Kennedy over the high plateau area of central Vietnam. Lewis, who had a hand in translating the messages and eager to travel to the highlands, volunteered to accompany the flight. As the aircraft swept low near the village of Blao, a concealed enemy force opened fire. The plane was struck by small arms fire and crashed in the mountains southwest of the village. A joint US/Vietnamese rescue team was sent to the crash site. The bodies of Lewis Walling, six U.S. Air Force personnel and two Vietnamese were located at the site of the C-47 crash."

Those men included the following:
2 unknown South Vietnamese Air Force personnel
U.S. Army Personnel:
2nd Lt. Lewis Walling
Sp4 Gen Merrihew
6 USAF Personnel:
Capt. Edward Kissam
Capt. Joseph Fahey
1st Lt. Jack Le Tourneau
1st Lt Stanley Hartson
TSgt Floyd Frazier
A1C Robert Westfall
Source: heep://www.vvmf.org/thewall