The Bergen Evening Record
March 31, 1945

Father Of 2 Dies In Reich;

Pvt. Brown Dies In Explosion

March 31, 1945

Patilli, Fairview Soldier, Slain In Action; Hackensack 's G.I.'s
Truck Blows up

Privates Anthony Pastilli of Fairview and
Herbert B. Brown of Hackensack have been killed
in action, their families were notified this week. Private Pastilli, 22, father of two children, was killed in Germany, and Private Brown, 19, lost his life in France when a truck loaded with ammunition exploded.

Two other Bergen county soldiers are reported wounded today and a third, a member of the 106th division of the first army, is reported a
German prisoner.

Private Brown, a resident of Hackensack since he was 7, died February 27. He had served in England, France, Luxemburg, and then France again. He attended State Street School and a while a student at Hackensack High School, he worked part time at Loft's in Hackensack. Upon leaving school, he was employed for 3 months at Bendix in Teterboro. He entered service on May 7, 1943.

Born in Paterson, he was baptized in the Varick Zion Methodist Church on Atlantic Street, Hackensack. He was a full member of the Junior choir there.