Sgt. Everett Andrew Pond

THE ABILENE REPORTER NEWS

NOVEMBER 2, 1948

RITES WEDNESDAY FOR FIRST MITCHELL WORLD WAR II DEAD

COLORADO CITY, NOV. 1 ~~ Reburial services for Sgt. Everett Andrew Pond, first Mitchell County man killed in World War II will be held in the First Baptist Church here Wednesday afternoon at 4 o’clock.
The Rev. R. Y. Bradford, pastor will preside. The Rev. P. D. O’Brien of Big Spring, former pastor, will assist.
Sgt. Pond, son of Harry A. Pond, District Clerk and Mrs. Pond of Colorado City, died in the Japanese bombing raid at Clark Field at Manila in the Philippines December 7, 1941. He was 25 at the time of his death and had served two years with the Army Air Corps. He was on duty with the 30th Bomb squadron at Clark Field.
A 1935 graduate of Colorado High School, he was a native of Mitchell County. He was trained as a bombardier and machine gunner at March Field, California and at Lowry Field, Colorado.
The Colorado City American Legion Post added his name to that of Oren C. Hooker, first World War I casualty, to make the post name Hooker-Pond.
Also surviving are a sister, Mrs. Carl Echols and a brother, Floyd Pond, both of Colorado City. Reburial will be in the IOOF section of the Colorado City Cemetery with full military honors in charge of the Hooker-Pond Post, the William Wyatt Post of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, and the local National Guard battery.