{"id":1380,"date":"2022-06-23T20:03:27","date_gmt":"2022-06-23T18:03:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.adoptiegraven-margraten.nl\/en\/?p=1380"},"modified":"2022-06-23T20:08:25","modified_gmt":"2022-06-23T18:08:25","slug":"tales-from-te-cemetery-joe-coleman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adoptiegraven-margraten.nl\/en\/tales-from-te-cemetery-joe-coleman\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe Coleman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Johanna Kelley and her daughter Megan visited the grave of their (great)grandfather on Friday June<br \/>\n10 2022, Pfc Joseph (Joe) Coleman at the American cemetery in Margraten. Joe enlisted in 1943 in<br \/>\nHouston Texas and got a function in the 31 ste Tankbattalion. Joe grew up in a large family. Father<br \/>\nRufus and mother Emma had four girls and two sons. Joe was married to Winona Smith and they had<br \/>\na daughter Nova. Megan showed pictures of her great-grandfather from April 1945. These must have<br \/>\nbeen the last pictures because he was killed in action on April 8 in the vicinity of Warburg. First he<br \/>\nwas buried in Germany and after the surrender of the nazi-regime he was transferred to Margraten<br \/>\nin July 1945.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.adoptiegraven-margraten.nl\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Coleman.jpg\"> <\/p>\n<p>Joe\u2019s spouse, Winona, will be 100 this month and she is eager to see the pictures Johanna and Megan<br \/>\nmade of their visit to Margraten and of her husbands\u2019 grave. The adopting family of Joe Coleman,<br \/>\nMarco and Claudia Potten from Stein, picked them up at the hotel in Maastricht and braught them to<br \/>\nthe cemetery where they were welcomed by Joy Voncken from the American cemetery. Marco is<br \/>\nworking in Eygelshoven at the NATO Army Prepositioned Site and he is also a member of the Dutch<br \/>\nTerritorial Army. He did a lot of research and was well informed about their soldier, Joe Coleman.<br \/>\nJoy Voncken, working at het cemetery in Margraten accompanied Johanna and Megan to the<br \/>\ngravesite. He filled the engraved letters with the yellow sand of the Omaha beaches of Normandy.<br \/>\nAfter placing the American flag Johanna and Megan were left alone in his emotional moment.<br \/>\nWhen they left they received a map filled with information about the cemetery and a DVD with<br \/>\nimages and music from Margraten with the impressive \u201cDo you remember\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.adoptiegraven-margraten.nl\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Coleman2.jpg\" title=\"From left to right: Claudia and Marco Potten, Johanna and Megan Kelley\"><\/p>\n<p>It was a special day for the adopters to finally meet the next of kin and even more special for Winona<br \/>\nto see at the age of 100 how her Joe is treated and remembered in Margraten.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Johanna Kelley and her daughter Megan visited the grave of their (great)grandfather on Friday June 10 2022, Pfc Joseph (Joe) Coleman&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1383,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-geen-categorie"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - 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