HOISINGTON — Vernon John Riemann, 99, died May 11, 2026, at the Good Samaritan Society, Ellsworth Village. He was born Aug. 3, 1926, in Claflin, Kan., the son of John D. and Mary (Markel) Riemann. He served in the 501st Parachute Infantry Battalion during WWII and was proud of his experience as a gliderman, who were the soldiers who rode without parachutes in engineless aircraft landing silently behind enemy lines to seize objectives.
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