GI From Lyle
Is Vietnam
War Casualty

Army Specialist 5 Roy F. Maas, 22, son of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Maas, Lyle, Minn., was killed in action in Vietnam Friday, according to the Defense Department.

Maas was a gunner in a tank that was a hit by enemy fire, his parents were informed. He had been in Vietnam since Dec. 1, 1968.

He was graduated from Lyle High School in 1966 and both he and his brother, Lyle, 23, enlisted July 28, 1966. They took their basic training together and also were together at mechanics school in Maryland before being separated.

Lyle, who now is an Army specialist at Ft. Hood, Texas, is en route home to attend his brother's funeral, his father said. He had spent a year in Vietnam, returning last Aug. 26.

Other survivors are a brother, Leo, 30, Claremont, Minn., and three sisters, Mrs. Lloyd Gerbig, Osage, Iowa, Mrs. Richard Krahn, Osage, and Mrs. Gary Odekirk, Cedar Falls, Iowa.