Butte Honors Sgt. Takasugi

About one thousand persons from all walks of life paid final respects to Sgt. Katsumi L. Takasugi in the flower-bedecked Butte High School auditorium yesterday. Sgt. Takasugi had fallen in battle in Italy on April 5.

The color guard posted the colors as the buglers played the taps with an echo in the background.

The scripture was read by the Rev. Clifford Nakagawa and the Rev. Y. Oshita. Block and group representatives paid floral tributes to the fallen soldier. Words of sympathy were extended to the family by Leroy H. Bennett, project director, Frank Sasaki on behalf of the Canal Parents-Relatives Asn., and Shinpei Tanaka for the Butte Parents Relatives Assn. Michimasa Asami represented the Buddhist Church, while the Rev. Steward of Mesa represented the Christians.

The Rev. Yasaburo Suda delivered the memorial service and offered a prayer. Then the “stars and stripes of which Sgt. Takasugi is now a part” was lowered from the wall and presented to his family.