A headstone honoring P.F.C. Kyle Austin Pricer is near the entrance to Mt. Carmel Cemetery. When entering the gate on the north side of the cemetery, Kyle's headstone can be found on the far north side of the property.
He has a small American Legion emblem staked next to the memorial, and a USA flag engraved into the top left of the face of the headstone.
Text on headstone:
In Memory Of
P.F.C. Kyle Austin Pricer
573rd S.A.W. B.N.
Who died in the service of his country in the European Theatre. Nov. 9, 1945. Age 22 years, 23 days.
He lies at rest at St. Avold, France.
"They died that freedom might live."
From Kyle's Find a Grave memorial: (
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Kyle A. Pricer
Private First Class, U.S. Army
Service # 38394679
555th Signal Air Warning Battalion
Entered the Service from: Oklahoma
Died: 10-Nov-45
Buried at: Plot K Row 41 Grave 34
Lorraine American Cemetery
St. Avold, France
Military records indicate death on Nov. 10 and gravestone marker says Nov. 9
Actual burial is at St. Avold, France.
Visit his web site by clicking' on the link below, typing in his last name and clicking "Go".
Visit his web site PFC Kyle Austin Pricer
He died with PFC Frank A Smyth of Quincy, Illinois.
This monument is a cenotaph ( a tomb or a monument erected in honor of a person whose remains are elsewhere); killed in a non-hostile incident while on Occupation Duty in Germany, PFC Pricer's remains are interred in the Lorraine American Cemetery and Memorial in Saint-Avold France: Find-A-Grave Memorial #56659707.
He had married Beatrice Genolyne Berger on Dec 20, 1942, and was killed just three weeks after his 22nd birthday.
(Also killed in the same incident was PFC Frank Alexander Smith: memorial #137614594)