By Deborah Larsen
Warren Charles Stout
Warren Charles Stout was born in Pontiac, Michigan, on August 7, 1924, the son of Charles and Edna Bowman Stout. The Stout family moved to Avon Township about 1925, and Warren’s father was the manager of a horse farm at Walton and Adams, adjacent to Meadow Brook Farm. Warren attended Rochester High School and graduated in the class of 1941. After high school, he attended Castle Heights Military Academy in Lebanon, Tennessee.
Warren entered the U.S. Army in August 1943 and was commissioned as a second lieutenant in early 1945. On April 16, 1945, his platoon was pinned down by enemy fire in the vicinity of Waldenburg, Germany. Despite being seriously wounded in the face and arm by shell fragments, Lieutenant Stout refused to be evacuated until he had moved his platoon forward to fire on the enemy positions, moving over 400 yards with his unit under heavy machine gun and artillery barrage. He was awarded the Purple Heart and the Silver Star for gallantry.
After the war, Warren married, started a family, and began a real estate career in Oakland County. He owned Stout Real Estate in Pontiac and was later associated with Chamberlain Realty in Rochester.
Warren Charles Stout died at the age of 86 on January 5, 2011, and was laid to rest at White Chapel Cemetery.