JOSEPH R. KANE

Northfield Village Resident. Joe only attended Northfield High School in his Junior Year, while working at the Village lee Co. of Northfield. He enlisted in the Army Air Corps in December of 1943. He rose to the rank of Sgt. and was killed while flying over France as a Turret Gunner in a "Flying Fortress" on August 15, 1944, after first being reported as Missing In Action. After arriving overseas in July of 1944 and the day before he was killed, he wrote that he had been on two missions. Their plane was short down and the only one killed was Joe by rifle fire. Joe was just 18 years old. Joe was survived by his father Urban Kane and five sisters, Agnes, Helen, Mrs. Mary DeMarco, Mrs. Lewis (Magdalen) Pearce and WAC Pvt. Frances, who was serving in New Guinea, and three brothers, Cpl. Sylvester in the Atlantic War Zone, John and Stanley. Stanley, the youngest brother is deceased as are the sisters Helen, Frances, Mary, and bothers Sylvester, John, and Stanley. Sister Agnes is a nun but had a stroke and lives in Regina Nursing Home in Richfield, Ohio, but the sister, Magdalen (Margret) Pearce is still living in Greencastle, Indiana. She actually owned and operated the Village Ice Company in Northfield Village. Stanley's wife Evelyn lives in Parma.

Northfield Village Resident. Joe only attended Northfield High School in his Junior Year, while working at the Village lee Co. of Northfield. He enlisted in the Army Air Corps in December of 1943. He rose to the rank of Sgt. and was killed while flying over France as a Turret Gunner in a "Flying Fortress" on August 15, 1944, after first being reported as Missing In Action. After arriving overseas in July of 1944 and the day before he was killed, he wrote that he had been on two missions. Their plane was short down and the only one killed was Joe by rifle fire. Joe was just 18 years old. 

Joe was survived by his father Urban Kane and five sisters, Agnes, Helen, Mrs. Mary DeMarco, Mrs. Lewis (Magdalen) Pearce and WAC Pvt. Frances, who was serving in New Guinea, and three brothers, Cpl. Sylvester in the Atlantic War Zone, John and Stanley. Stanley, the youngest brother is deceased as are the sisters Helen, Frances, Mary, and bothers Sylvester, John, and Stanley. Sister Agnes is a nun but had a stroke and lives in Regina Nursing Home in Richfield, Ohio, but the sister, Magdalen (Margret) Pearce is still living in Greencastle, Indiana. She actually owned and operated the Village Ice Company in Northfield Village. Stanley's wife Evelyn lives in Parma.