Samuel Henry Holmes jun

[stonechat]

I have recently located the death and burial for above
To summarise what I already know
b 1911 to Samuel Henry Holmes and Helen Pauline Hore in New York
Married Rebecca Ruth Conger 23.3.1940 at her home in Warsaw, Wyoming, New York State
He served as a private  in the Airforce Marines and was buried in the Long Island National Cemetery in Mar 1952 having died in Farmingdale on 11th Mar

As he was buried at a veteran's cemetery I was wondering if he died from injuries sustained in the War.
I have found records of Ruth not remarried in 1957 (newspaper report)

Wondering if anyone with more access to US records can add anything?

THANKS

[shellyesq]

Are you sure he died in Farmingdale?  That's where the cemetery is.  There is a Samuel Holmes who died in Manhattan on 11 Mar. 1952 at age 39.

[shellyesq]

There are mentions in a Wyoming Co. newspaper of some Congers attending his funeral in Mar. 1950.  http://nyshistoricnewspapers.org/lccn/sn84035923/1950-03-02/ed-1/seq-8.pdf  The NY death index has a Samuel H. Holmes who died in Mineola (which is close to Garden City that was mentioned in the article) at age 37 on 23 Feb. 1950. 

[stonechat]

Are you sure he died in Farmingdale?  That's where the cemetery is.  There is a Samuel Holmes who died in Manhattan on 11 Mar. 1952 at age 39.

I got that from Findagrave and Billiongraves

His father had lived in Mineola. Maybe his mother still did.Family had nearly always been on Long Island, apart from Samuel’s younger brother Paul b Roseville New Jersey.

[shellyesq]

I think the info from Find a Grave comes from the military grave locator - https://gravelocator.cem.va.gov/ - which doesn't give a place of death.  I wonder if perhaps the Mar. 1952 date was a burial date.  His remains could have been moved, or maybe the 1952 was a typo for 1950. 

[stonechat]

I found Ruth's death in a newspaper in 1961, states Samuel died in  1950
Two sons