Military services for Private Virgil J. Kemp, the first Potter County boy to be returned, will be conducted this Thursday, April 15, 1948. A prayer will be held at one thirty o'clock at the home of his parents, Mr.' and Mrs. Charles Kemp, at Eleven Mile followed by further services in Chrystal Evangelical United Brethren Church at two o'clock. Rev. Harry Andorf, pastor, will officiate. Interment will be made in the Chrystal Cemetery with Shinglehouse Post No. 530, American Legion, in charge of committal services. Pvt. Kemp was born on November 18, 1925, at Eleven Mile. He attended the Chrystal grade school and was graduated from the Shinglehouse High School, Class of 1943. Surviving besides his father and stepmother, are his mother, Mrs. Blanche Howard of Myrtle; his paternal grandmother, Mrs. Carrie Bentley of Eleven Mile; two sisters, Mrs. Florence Turner of Ellicottville, N. Y., and Mrs. Virginia Johnson of Duke Center; one half brother, Clifford D. Howard; one half sister, Gwendolyn Howard; two foster brothers, Charles and George Packer of Eleven Mile. The body of Pvt. Kemp arrived in Olean on Tuesday afternoon. Virgil was inducted in the US Army on March 16, 1944, at New Cumberland Induction Center, receiving his basic training at Camp Wheeler, Ga. Upon completion of this portion of his training he was granted a furlough on July 28. Returning to Camp Wheeler he was transferred to Camp Maxey, Texas, for what was hoped, more training. However he was sent to the European Theatre of War in September, just six months after induction. He served as a replacement in the 39th Infantry in France and Belgium. On January 16, 1945, Mr. and Mrs. Kemp received a letter which Virgil had written on December 8, telling them that he Wag a patient in an army hospital. Two days later the dreaded telegram was delivered informing them that their son, Pvt. Virgil J. Kemp, had been killed in action somewhere in Belgium. Mr. and Mrs. Kemp applied for his body to be returned to the United States and last week received word that Virgil was aboard the United States Army Transport, the "Robert F. Burns.' Virgil is one of the 276 young men being returned from the cemeteries at Henri Chapelle, Belgium, and Varois and Epinal, France.