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1896–1918 · Battery E, 146th Field Artillery
The Terre Coupee settlement's Gold Star son died of the war's second killer, in the war's most famous fortress town, after the guns stopped. Stanley Paszkiet was born at New Carlisle 26 April 1896, son of Simon and Louise Paszkiet — a farmer's son of the Polish settlement Fred Miller had planted in the township's marsh timber two generations before. He enlisted in the U.S. Regular Army in August 1917 at South Bend and was assigned to Battery E, 146th Field Artillery. He went overseas and served to the Armistice, and on 15 December 1918 he died of pneumonia in hospital at Verdun, France — in the influenza pandemic that killed more of the county's soldiers than German fire did. His body was to be returned to the United States for burial in St. Joseph Cemetery, South Bend. No decoration is recorded for him; his entry in the state's roll is his honor, and it is printed whole.
Sources
- Indiana Gold Star Honor Roll, 1914–1918 (1921), St. Joseph County section, entry PASZKIET, Stanley, read whole.