Charles (Charlie) A. Nance was born  in 1919, the son of Calvin and Nancy Nance of East Gaffney, South Carolina.  He had three sisters (Mrs. O.V. Moss, Mrs. Rusch Bratton, and Miss Lucille Nance) and two brothers (Guy and Frank.)  Charlie was married to Minnie Lee Sellars Nance and they had a son named Charles who was two and one-half years old at the time of his father’s death.  Before he entered the service on 31 March 1944, Charles worked as a loom fixer at the Alma Mills.
Charlie was assigned to the 1255 Engineer Combat Battalion. On 12 February 1945, Charlie was setting-up a machine gun near Diekirch, Luxembourg when he was struck and killed instantly by cross-fire from enemy machine guns.
Following Charlie’s death, eleven of his squad members wrote a letter to Minnie expressing their sense of loss at her husband’s death:

Charlie was one of us ever since we first started training and his loss has left a gap in our midst which never can be replaced. Whenever our morale sunk to subnormal, as it is prone to do sometimes over here, far from home and those we love, it was always Charlie’s continuous good humor and inexhaustible supply of cheerful songs which never failed to lift our spirits.  That’s the kind of guy Charlie was, straight-forward, honest and clean living. And those of us who lived, worked, and fought with him will never forget him.

The commanding officer of his Company, Sidney E. Roberts, wrote the following to Minnie:  

Your husband, while under my command, was an excellent soldier and always performed an excellent job.  He was very well liked by all of the officers and enlisted men of his unit and his loss is one that is deeply felt by all of us.

There is a monument near Vianden in Luxembourg to Charlie and the other men of his battalion that were killed that day.
Information from the attached obituaries provided by Erwin Derhaag.