Retired U.S. Air Force Chief Master Sgt. Joseph Edward Markley, 69, of 240 Scott St., died Wednesday at his home. He served in the Air Force for 31 years and was a prisoner of war for 14 months during World War II. He was a member of the 45th Bomb Squadron Association, the American Legion, and the Disabled American Veterans.

Funeral services will be held Sunday at 1 p.m. at Burdock Funeral Home in Kitzmiller, MD. Burial will be (in) Nethken Hill Cemetery (WV).

Surviving are his wife, Wilma Evans Markley; four sons, Terrance Wayne Markley of Belview, Neb., Ross Edward Markley of Tampa, Fla., Dale Warren Markley of Federal Way, Wash., and Joseph Henry Markley of Greensboro; two daughters, Linda Lou Gorski of Sterling, Va., and Ellen Irene Noble of Reno, Nev.; a brother, Ted Markley of Thomas, W. Va.; two sisters, Betsy Paugh of Frederick, Md, and Dorothy McIntosh of Silver Springs, Md; and 12 grandchildren and a great-grandchild.

Local arrangements by Seymour Funeral Home.

[ED NOTE: Kitzmiller, MD, is on State 42 just north of the WV line in far western Maryland. South of the line on 42 is Elk Garden, WV, where the Nethkin Hill Cemetery is located. ALSO: Sgt Markley wrote an account of his POW days, entitled Winged Victory, Barbed Wire, and Beyond: The memoirs of a WWII POW. GCW]

ITEM OF INTEREST:
The 461st Liberaider,
July 1990, Vol. 7, No. 1

STALAG LUFT VI, BARRACKS F-12
HEYDEKRUG, EAST PRUSSIA, 1944

"POWs housed with me, I still have the $5 bill all 25 signed before my move to Stalag Luft IV. I hope to renew acquaintences.

"Contact Joseph E. Markley, Route 15, Box 326, Goldsboro, NC 27534."

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