St Bernard Memorial Gardens

St. Bernard Parish’s 1st perpetual care cemetery, St. Bernard Memorial Gardens was established in 1965 by cemetery and mausoleum developers E.J. “Gabby” and Lucille Mittlebronn Jr. Hurricane Betsy struck the Gulf Coast shortly after the cemetery’s opening and delayed operations for a period of time.

The Mittlebronns owned and operated St. Bernard Memorial Gardens until 1982.

St. Bernard Memorial Funeral Home opened on the cemetery property in 1997.

Following Hurricane Katrina, we built a new funeral home, which opened in 2007.

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Duncan A MacFetters

2nd LT Duncan A. MacFetters was assigned to C Company, 2nd Infantry, of the 1st Battalion in South Vietnam when he was Killed In Action by small arms fire on October 2, 1966.

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Kenneth E Brown

Duncan A MacFetters

SGT Kenneth E. Brown began his tour of duty in Vietnam on January 5, 1969. He was a medical specialist assigned to Headquarters Company, 6th Battalion, 31st Infantry of the 9th Infantry Division. He was Killed In Action by a mortar attack in the Dinh Tuong Province, South Vietnam on April 11, 1969.

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Prisoners of War

HERBERT EUSTACE GRAVES JR

1st LT Robert E. Graves Jr was a navigator on a B-17 Flying Fortress named "Homesick Angel". On August 15, 1944 the "Homesick Angel" was on a mission when it was struck by enemy flak and crash landed.

1st LT Graves was captured and taken as a Prisoner of War. He was taken to Stalag 7A Moosburg Bavaria 48-12 (work camps 3324-46 Krumbachstrasse 48011, work camp 3368 Munich 48-11) and remained there until he was liberated at the conclusion of World War II.

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KENNETH L STUMPF

HERBERT EUSTACE GRAVES JR

Staff Sergeant Kenneth L Stumpf was an assistant radio operator in a B-24D Liberator. On May 10, 1943 they took off from Berka 2 airfield in Benghazi, Libya on a bombing mission on the Eleusis airdrome 18 km northwest of Athens, Greece. After completing their mission they were attacked by 7 German fighters and crash landed near the town of Poendeoria, Greece.

Two of the crew were Killed In Action, two were taken prisoners of war, and 7 evaded capture.

S/SGT Stumpf was taken as a Prisoner of War and taken to Stalag Luft 3 Sagan-Silesia Bavaria. He was later moved to Nuremberg-Langwasser where he remained until he was liberated at the conclusion of World War II.

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