SGT Stanley W. Koenig
1923 - 2005
USAAAC
WWII
Stanley Warren Koenig was born in Granite City, Illinois on December 5, 1923 to Victor and Dorothy McClusky Koenig.
After a year of college at the University of Illinois, he served three years in World War II as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army Air Corps, during which he received two Bronze Stars while serving with the 316th Bombardment Wing (Very Heavy) in Okinawa. While stationed in the Pacific Theater, he initiated and delivered a sports broadcast 3 days a week while authoring humorous columns for Yank - a servicemen’s publication.
On April 29, 1950, Koenig married Lucille King McCaskill in Alton, Illinois; they raised two children.
In 1948, Koenig graduated from U of I with a B.S. in Journalism, and joined Olin Industries in the Advertising Department. He held a variety of Advertising and Sales management positions, and was named Director of Advertising of Olin Mathieson Chemical Company in 1957.
Through the years, Koenig’s positions included Vice President at Leo Burnett USA, Executive Director of Max McGraw Wildlife Foundation in Dundee, and part-owner and director of Heddon Fishing Tackle Company in Dowagiac, Michigan.
He was a one-time member and chairman of Planning Commission for Village of Barrington, a former Vice-President and Secretary of Ducks Unlimited, and was involved in many other conservation organizations. He wrote the screenplay for the movie ''Winchester 73'', and was a champion trap and skeet shooter.
SGT Stanley Koenig died January 31, 2005, and is buried with his wife in Barrington’s Evergreen Cemetery.
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Courtesy of Signal Hill Chapter, National Society Daughters of the American Revolution.