Robert Wallace Backherms, age 30, from Ravenna, Ohio, Portage county.
Service era: Cold War
Date of death: Wednesday, April 19, 1989
Death details: Killed in accidental explosion aboard the USS Iowa just off Puerto Rico
Source: Iowa Daily Press, UPI
Backherms, Robert Wallace
Turk, Christopher Harold
Army Private 1st class
Christopher Harold Turk, age 20, from Portage County Ravenna, Ohio .
Parents: Harold Turk
Service era: Vietnam
Schools: Southeast High, Kent State University at Salem
Date of death: Sunday, February 13, 1972
Death details: Died in South Vietnam after he fell from a crane.
Source: National Archives, Akron Beacon Journal (1972)