Pederson, Wendle Adonis
Navy Reserves Appentice seaman

Wendle Adonis Pederson, age 17, from Allamakee County Waukon, Iowa .

Parents: Alfred Oscar Pederson

Service era: World War II

Date of death: Sunday, August 23, 1942
Death details: Died when the USS Ingraham collided with another vessel and sank in the North Atlantic.

Source: National Archives, Cedar Rapids Gazette (1943), LaCrosse Tribune (1943)