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Roger Harvey Mattfield
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- Name: Roger Harvey Mattfield
- Location of Birth: Trout Lake Township, Itasca County, Minnesota
- Date of Birth: May 24, 1931
- Date of Death: June 18, 1998 (67 years old)
- Parents: Herman Mattfield & Selma (Mischke) Mattfield
- High School and Class: 1949 Greenway High School, Coleraine, Minnesota
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- Highest Rank: A1C (Airman First Class)
- Branch: Air Force
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- Military Awards:
Bronze Star
Japanese Occupation Medal
Korean Service Medal
United National Medal
5 Battle Stars
District Unit Citation
- Military Highlights:
Information in the Grand Rapids Herald Review, dated March 14, 2021 - Historical Review:
1951
March 15, 1951
Corporal Roger Mattfield of Bovey has been awarded the Bronze Star for heroic achievement in Korea.
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Korean War
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Roger Mattfield moved to Wisconsin in 1954. He married Hildegard Mueller Wagner in 1980 in Wisconsin. He was employed by Wisconsin Power and Light Co. in 1958, retiring as Control Room Operator at the Edgewater Generating Station in 1992. He enjoyed gardening, bowling, traveling and fishing trips with family and friends.
Roger died in Madison, Wisconsin and is buried in Greenlawn Memorial Park, Kohler, Wisconsin (plot - Garden of Valor). He is survived by his wife; his mother, Selma Sundstrom; six children, Eileen (Dean) Doro, Michael (Julie) Mattfield, Patricia (Frederick) Hertel, Deborah (Jeffrey) Cole, Susan Mattfield, and Renee (Douglas) Bramstedt; ten grandchildren; two great-grandchildren; six brothers, Norman, Herman (Virginia), Robert, Gerald, Weldon, and Meloy; five sisters, Sylvia (Roman) Norworatzky, Delores Eigenberger, Violet (Lyle) Hanson, Joyce (Mike) Gonzalez, and Janet (Robert) Delich; step-children, Frederick (Melissa) Wagner, Jennifer Wagner, and Sandra (Dennis) Dekker; and three step-grandchildren. He was preceded in death by his father, Herman; two brothers, Maynard and Raymond.
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