First Lieutenant Wesley Nestor Warvi | UW Gold Star Honor Roll
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Wesley Nestor Warvi

Graduating Class of 1937
Served in World War II
Attached photograph of First Lieutenant Warvi

First Lieutenant
Wesley Nestor Warvi

Army
Medical Corps

Hometown

Highbridge, WI

Date of Birth

Location of Death

Ogallala, NE

Date of Death

Location of Burial

Mountain Lawn Cemetery, Englewood, SD

More About First Lieutenant Warvi

First Lieutenant Warvi entered the army in January, 1944, and before that he had spent two years as an instructor in surgery at the University of Cincinnati hospital. His writings include several papers on tumors and cancer which have been published by the American Journal of Pathology and the Mayo Memorial volume of "Surgery."

1st Lt. Warvi was killed in an auto accident near Ogallala, NE when returning to his base at Camp Phillips, KS.