Private First Class, US Army
Enlisted August 27, 1943
Died February 25, 1945
Age 22

Walter Stavel enlisted on August 27, 1943. He served in Company C of the 136th Ordnance Battalion 14th Armored Division. He was killed in Saverne France on February 25, 1945 when his barracks was hit by a 380mm shell fired by a German Railroad gun 30 miles away. He was survived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Stavel of Endicott. He was a Union-Endicott High School graduate. He was buried in Calvary Cemetery in Johnson City in 1948.

Calvary Cemetery Johnson City, NY