ORVILLE DEWEY
MOBLEY JR b. Oct 25, 1925 Panora, Iowa d.
Mar 24, 1945
Died Non Battle Kansas
Cpl 3689158 Army
Buried Grand Lawn Cemetery, Detroit
Parents: Orville Dewey & Florence Gertrude
(Goetzman)
Sibling: Norman Russell
They family’s origins are in Iowa, on farms around
Guthrie City and Panora Iowa. There are still many Mobleys in that area of
Iowa. When they came to Detroit in the 1920’s Orville Sr. did work tarring
streets, last worked for City of Detroit doing street repairs. They rented
their first home at 3740 Lawton for $20 a month. Close to downtown it and the
rest of the block has been replaced with a Salvation Army facility next to
I96.Their next home they owned, at 12859 Stout, and is vacant lot now, the
neighborhood truncated by the 10 lane Jefferies freeway, I96. Young Orville had a newspaper route in 1940.
He left high school in 1943 the joined the army Jan 1944, 5’8” 145 lbs with
blue eyes and blonde hair at which time he worked for the Detroit Times
newspaper per his draft registration.
(Again, a note of caution for those using information from online family trees: read the source material! Do not assume the info is correct. I continue to be amazed as the sloppy work people do on research. Ancestry is wonderful, but you still need to look at source material and not just use summary info. Check dates, name spellings, parents to ensure you have the correct individual.)
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| F-13 Bomber Fortress |
Orville died in a military plane fire. He was one
of 23 killed in an airplane crash in Kansas, according to the high school
newspaper, The Outpost. USAAF Data has
him listed along with the plane serial number 42-93968 but can’t find any
accident report. The plane was an F-13A which are early B-29/B-29As modified
for photo reconnaissance; the F designation means ‘photo’. But can’t find an
aviation accident report. Was this troop transport? 23 is a lot of people
killed, should have left more of a report.
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