PVT Wallace F. Elfrink
1901 – 1962
USAR
WWII
Wallace Floyd Elfrink was born in Barrington August 21, 1901 to Samuel and Bertha Berghorn Elfrink.
In 1909, the family had moved to Dixon, Nebraska, then to Platte, South Dakota in 1914. Elfrink moved back to Illinois to farm in the Woodstock area in 1936, where he was member of the McHenry County Farm Bureau.
Elfrink was a Veteran of World War II, serving as a Private in Company D, 410th Infantry Regiment.
In 1950, he became a flagman in Woodstock for the Chicago & Northwestern Railway.
Private Wallace Elfrink died in Crystal Lake, where he was living with his brother, on September 28, 1962, and is buried with his family in Barrington’s Evergreen Cemetery.
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Courtesy of Signal Hill Chapter, National Society Daughters of the American Revolution
