PVT Elmer Zapletal
1927 – 1961
USAR
Elmer Zapletal was born January 29, 1930 [tombstone error] in Chicago.
Zapletal served in the U.S. Army from 1949 to 1950 in the Headquarters Company, 3rd Battalion, 228th Infantry. He was discharged under honorable conditions as a Private, and continued service in the Illinois National Guard through 1951.
Professionally, he was employed as a moving man; later, he operated a rubbish removal service and lived in Cary.
Private Elmer Zapletal died April 27, 1961 in Broadview and is buried in Barrington’s Evergreen Cemetery.
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Courtesy of Signal Hill Chapter, National Society Daughters of the American Revolution.