Kelley, Thomas Edward
Private

Thomas Edward Kelley, age 40, from Allegheny County McKees Rocks, Pennsylvania .

Parents: Thomas Kelley and Mary McMahon Kelley
Spouse: Camella
Children: Son Air Force Sgt. Thomas E. Kelley was killed in 1953 in a transport plane crash.

Service era: World War II

Date of death: Friday, August 9, 1946
Death details: His wife in 1953: “Mr. Kelley was drafted when he was about 35. I had three small children – in 1942, I think. He was shipped over to fight in Africa and Italy. Trapped in a fox-hole for eight days, one of his lungs collapsed. He came back to the States and died in Aspinwall Hospital six months later.”

Source: Pittsburgh Sun Telegraph (1953)