The Royal Canadian Legion Saskatchewan Command LEST WE FORGET 29 BERANEK, Stanley Joseph “Stan” WWII Stan was born to Jerome Frank and Marie Antoinette Beranek in 1919 in Plunkett, SK. He took his early schooling there, finishing in Saskatoon, SK at Pleasant Hill and Bedford Road. He joined the Royal Canadian Air Force in 1940 and served as a Pilot Officer with #408 Goose Squadron. On June 19, 1942, he was flying a Hampton over the English Channel when it crashed and the whole crew was lost. He is buried at Bayeux War Cemetery, Normandy, France. There is a geo-memorial named in his honour: Beranek Lake, west of Missinipe, SK at ((73P10) 55 33 104 56 ). BERGREN, Howard WWII Howard was born in Saskatoon, SK on December 22, 1919 and was raised on a farm north of Viscount, SK, where he also did his schooling and farmed with his dad before and after the war. He joined the Army in 1941, serving in Regina, SK and Kingston, ON, and then was discharged in 1945. Howard and his wife, Freda Sexsmith, raised a family of five. In 1976, they retired to Saskatoon where he was active in the community, especially St. John’s Lutheran Church and the local school board. Howard passed away February 4, 2006. BERGREN, Ray Edward WWII Ray was born on January 27, 1919 in Viscount, SK where he farmed with his dad until he joined the Army in 1940. He transferred to the Royal Canadian Air Force in 1943 to serve as a Wireless Air Gunner and was one of the soldiers they did experiments on with mustard gas in Suffield, AB. After his discharge in January 1945, he married Myrtle Nelson and they raised four children. At the beginning of his marriage, he worked as a grain buyer in Traynor, SK, then moved to Saskatoon, SK to work for Robin Hood Flour Mill as a grain diverter. From 1960, he ran his own business as a fruit and vegetable peddler until he retired in 1990. Ray died in Saskatoon on February 22, 2005.
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