PVT Graydon Virgil Wise was born 20 Jun 1910 in Chisolm, Minnesota. He was the 2nd of 3 children of Mark M. Pomeroy and Amanda Elizabeth (Anderson) Wise. He had a half-brother who lived with his father's first wife. His father worked for an iron mine to support his family but was killed in an automobile accident in December 1917. Graydon's younger brother was born just 5 months later. His mother re-married soon after and had 2 more children by step-father Frank Leonard Ramsdell who worked on state road construction and later farmed near Crosby, Minnesota. Graydon married Nellie Caroline Benson in February 1939 and was farming near Ogema, Minnesota.
Graydon was drafted in December 1943. After his basic military training he was sent to the European theater and transferred from the replacement depot to L Company 116th Infantry on 3 Sep 1944. The regiment was embroiled in the fight with German forces as the division attempted to liberate Brest, France. PVT Wise was killed in action in Brest on 6 Sep 1944.
PVT Wise was repatriated in 1948 and re-interred in Memorial Cemetery in Hinckley, Minnesota.
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