"Flowers Are Memorial To Lost Pilot's Thoughtfulness"
"Gay flowers, delivered daily on orders placed by her thoughtful husband before he went away to fight the Japs and never return, brighten the room of Mrs. William Stewart Gillen and her four-day-old son, William, Jr. at Millard Fillmore Hospital. Back in February [1942] when Lieut. Gillen, a fighter pilot, received orders for combat duty, he went to Hodges florist shop in Delaware Avenue and arranged to have the blooms placed in his wife's room while she was in the hospital. Then he went away and was killed July 28th in action against the Japs in the Southwest Pacific area, a little more than a month before his son was born."
Credit: Buffalo Courier Express Date: September 6, 1943
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