Mr. Sansing was born on September 11, 1919. He joined the U.S. Army at the height of World War II and was assigned to the 60th Infantry of the 9th Division. The 9th Division took part in Operation Overlord, the Allied invasion of France against Nazi Germany. In July, 1944, Private Sansing wrote to his family and told of being in a foxhole for two weeks without benefit of a bath or shave.

On July 25, 1944, General Omar Bradley ordered the 9th Division to launch a drive to break out of the Cherbourg Peninsula in France. On that day Private Sansing was killed in action by hostile German forces. He was 25 years old. His body was returned to the United States following the war and is buried in Hebron Baptist Cemetery in Clay County.