Bernie Malion Corporal, United States Army |
Born
on August 30, 1890, he served in the Army during World War I. He died on
March 28, 1959 and was buried in Section 46 of Arlington National Cemetery,
adjacent to the Memorial Amphitheater. He was the
100,000th burial in Arlington.
100,000th Dead In Arlington WASHINGTON, April 3, 1959 – The honored dead in Arlington National Cemetery reached 100,000 today. Burial of Army Corporal Bernie Malion raised the total interments to that figire. Corporal Malion, who died earlier this week at the Veterans Hospital, Pittaburgh, Pennsylvania, had served with a Quartermaster unit at Fort Lewis, Washngton. Arlington Cemetery, embracing a group of wooded hills across the Potomac River from Washington, was established in Civil War times.
MALION SKEY, BERNIE CPL CMP UTILITIES DET QMC CMP LEWIS WASH VETERAN SERVICE DATES: Unknown DATE OF BIRTH: 08/30/1890 DATE OF DEATH: 03/28/1959 DATE OF INTERMENT: 04/03/1959 BURIED AT: SECTION 46 SITE 405 ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY Posted: 14 March 1998 - Updated: 18 September 2004 Updated: 16 January 2008 |
