CRAMERTON - R.B. Rector of 393 Woodlawn Avenue, has received an official notice from the War Department that his son, Pfc. Reuben W. Rector of the 385th Glider Infantry, had been killed in action January 30th in Belgium. Pfc. Rector entered the service of his country March 1942, received his basic training at Camp Clairborne. La., and transferred from there to Fort Bragg and thence to Alliance, Neb. and back to Fort Bragg and then to Camp Mackall, where he was stationed for sometime. From there he went to Fort Meade, Md. and then to a POE. He arrived in England last June and was sent from there to Holland, and transferred from the 326th Glider Infantry to the 325th. He served in the Holland campaign and was sent from there to France and thence to Belgium where he served twice. He was hospitalized while stationed in Belgium but wrote to his father telling him that he was in the hospital but not to worry, it was not serious. His father received his last letter from his son, written on January 10th, informing him that he was returning to his outfit and to active duty.

Pfc. Rector, was 32 years, was the oldest son of his father, and the late Mrs. Jennie Gray Rector of Lowell, where they had resided for a number of years, having come here from Jefferson County, Tennessee. He attended the First Baptist Church of Lowell. He was, prior to entering the service, employed by the Peerless Spinning Company at Lowell for a number of years.

Mr. Rector is the father of three sons, Pfc. Rector having been the oldest. The youngest, Samuel Otto Rector of the USN, was reported killed in action off Leyte Island, December 3, 1944, almost two months prior to the eldest son having been killed in action. Pfc. Rector is survived by his father and the following sisters at home, Mrs. Rose Mayne, and Misses Barbara, Evelyn and Jennie, and three who reside at Lowell, Mrs. Gypsie Montgomery, Mrs. Lucille Jackson, and Mrs. Maude Hannah. One brother, Carl of Cramerton. Pfc. Rector had been awarded the Good Conduct Medal and the Rifleman Badge, Infantry.