Salem Pioneer Cemetery ~ Harold Jepsen ~ part of the Marion County Pioneer Cemeteries of Oregon
Harold Jepsen
LAST NAME: Jepsen FIRST NAME: Harold MIDDLE NAME:  NICKNAME: 
MAIDEN NAME:  AKA 1:  AKA 2:  AKA 3: 
TITLE: Lt. GENDER: M MILITARY: WWII - US Army Air Corp.
BORN: 1916 DIED: 6 Nov 1941 BURIED: 12 Nov 1941
ETHNICITY:   OCCUPATION:  US Army Air Corps
BIRTH PLACE:  Oregon
DEATH PLACE: Augusta, Richmond Co., Georgia
NOTES: 
1930 CENSUS- Harold C. Jepsen, age 14, b. Oregon, is enumerated with father Carl A. Jepsen, age 49, occupation tanner, b. Germany, and mother Sadie, age 43, b. Oregon, along with brother Dalbert J., age 16, b. Oregon.
OBITUARY: 
SALEM FLIER US BOMBER CRASH VICTIM. 
Lieut. Harlod C. Jepsen, killed in a bomber crash near Augusta, Ga., Thursday, was a Salem resident until about two years ago. He had been with the U. S. Army Air Corps. Jepsen learned to fly at the Salem airport and had expressed an ambition to pilot an army bomber into the field here. He last visited here two months ago on his way to Pendleton, where his squadron was assigned. 
Known as a singer, Jepsen once had charge of the Mickey Mouse program at the Elsinore theatre. He was a graduate of Salem high cchool and a member of the Chemeketa chapter, Order of DeMolay. Jepsen was a brother of Dalbert Jepsen, now in California, and a son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Carl Jepsen. Lt. Wilbur E. McDowell, friend of Jepsen, and son of Mr. and Mrs. [?]. L. McDowell of Salem, is bringing the body here by train, a telegram to his parents said Thursday night. 
Oregon Statesman 7 Nov 1941 1:2 

Lt. Harold C. Jepsen, former resident of Salem, at Augusta, Georgia, Thursday, November 6, at the age of 25 years. Brother of Dalbert Jepsen of San Diego, Calif. Services will be held Wednesday, November 12, at 2 p. m. from Clough-Barrick chapel with concluding services in IOOF cemetery. 
Oregon Statesman 12 Nov 1941 5:3-4
INSCRIPTION: 
Lt. Harold Jepsen 
1916 - 1941 
37th Bombardment Squadron 
US Army Air Corps
SOURCES: 
LR 
LD 
1930 OR CENSUS (Marion Co., Salem, ED 24-55, sheet 1B) 
S&H pg 37 
OS 7 Nov 1941 1:2 
OS 12 Nov 1941 5:3-4
CONTACTS: 
LOT: 286 SPACE: 1 SE N½ LONGITUDE: N 44° 55.221' LATITUDE: W 123° 02.724'