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Article: 'My heart was broken that day' An Emmaus woman was 13 when her brother was killed in France during WWII. She never knew where he lay buried, until a new friend made it his mission to find out.
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- The Morning Call (Allentown, PA)
- Article date:
- May 27, 2007
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Byline: Daryl Nerl
May 27--Some of Audrey Garcia's fondest childhood memories are of the times her brother, Joseph, carried her on his shoulders from Fullerton Avenue across the Fourth Street bridge into Allentown to see Shirley Temple movies at the Franklin Theater on Tilghman Street.
Her most painful memory is of the day two men in Army uniforms came to tell her parents that Pvt. Joseph Ellwood had been killed in France.
The Army messengers waited in the backyard, pushing young Audrey, then 13, on her swing. They waited to break the news to her parents until her father, William, arrived home from work. Mr. Ellwood stopped the family's living ...