Jack was brought up with the Mormon religion as were his parents and theirs before him. He and his family moved from Salt Lake, Utah to Southern California in the 1920s.
He was a construction worker. He was working on a Laguna Hotel in Laguna and happened to walk into the Mapes coffee shop. This is where he met Glays Leng. They were married in 1930.
They moved to Bell Gardens. About this time, Jack and Gladys were in an automobile accident. The heavy frame that surrounded the windshield, common in its day, would be slammed into her face causing damage to her right eye and jaw.
Jack and Gladys had two children; Gladys Annetta (born Oct of 1931) and Ernest William (born Dec of 1934). Jack built a house for the family in Bell where they lived for a short time.
A job with C. F. Braun and Company would cause a relocation to Phoenix, Arizona. He built buildings that would become Luke Air Force Base. Then, they moved to Uvalde, Texas to help build another air force base and to Childress to do the same.
Jack enlisted in the Special Corp of Engineers and headed to England in 1944. He landed in France just three days after D-Day. At the end of the war, He was discharged in Belgium. He wanted Gladys and the children to join him there. Gladys' mom would fight tooth and nail against the move. She would not allow it. Jack and Gladys were divorced in July of 1947.
He came home not long after and returned to life in Bell, California. He got a severe case of pneumonia during the summer of 1954. Six months later, he died of a massive heart attack.
He was a construction worker. He was working on a Laguna Hotel in Laguna and happened to walk into the Mapes coffee shop. This is where he met Glays Leng. They were married in 1930.
They moved to Bell Gardens. About this time, Jack and Gladys were in an automobile accident. The heavy frame that surrounded the windshield, common in its day, would be slammed into her face causing damage to her right eye and jaw.
Jack and Gladys had two children; Gladys Annetta (born Oct of 1931) and Ernest William (born Dec of 1934). Jack built a house for the family in Bell where they lived for a short time.
A job with C. F. Braun and Company would cause a relocation to Phoenix, Arizona. He built buildings that would become Luke Air Force Base. Then, they moved to Uvalde, Texas to help build another air force base and to Childress to do the same.
Jack enlisted in the Special Corp of Engineers and headed to England in 1944. He landed in France just three days after D-Day. At the end of the war, He was discharged in Belgium. He wanted Gladys and the children to join him there. Gladys' mom would fight tooth and nail against the move. She would not allow it. Jack and Gladys were divorced in July of 1947.
He came home not long after and returned to life in Bell, California. He got a severe case of pneumonia during the summer of 1954. Six months later, he died of a massive heart attack.
Jack was brought up with the Mormon religion as were his parents and theirs before him. He and his family moved from Salt Lake, Utah to Southern California in the 1920s.
He was a construction worker. He was working on a Laguna Hotel in Laguna and happened to walk into the Mapes coffee shop. This is where he met Glays Leng. They were married in 1930.
They moved to Bell Gardens. About this time, Jack and Gladys were in an automobile accident. The heavy frame that surrounded the windshield, common in its day, would be slammed into her face causing damage to her right eye and jaw.
Jack and Gladys had two children; Gladys Annetta (born Oct of 1931) and Ernest William (born Dec of 1934). Jack built a house for the family in Bell where they lived for a short time.
A job with C. F. Braun and Company would cause a relocation to Phoenix, Arizona. He built buildings that would become Luke Air Force Base. Then, they moved to Uvalde, Texas to help build another air force base and to Childress to do the same.
Jack enlisted in the Special Corp of Engineers and headed to England in 1944. He landed in France just three days after D-Day. At the end of the war, He was discharged in Belgium. He wanted Gladys and the children to join him there. Gladys' mom would fight tooth and nail against the move. She would not allow it. Jack and Gladys were divorced in July of 1947.
He came home not long after and returned to life in Bell, California. He got a severe case of pneumonia during the summer of 1954. Six months later, he died of a massive heart attack.
He was a construction worker. He was working on a Laguna Hotel in Laguna and happened to walk into the Mapes coffee shop. This is where he met Glays Leng. They were married in 1930.
They moved to Bell Gardens. About this time, Jack and Gladys were in an automobile accident. The heavy frame that surrounded the windshield, common in its day, would be slammed into her face causing damage to her right eye and jaw.
Jack and Gladys had two children; Gladys Annetta (born Oct of 1931) and Ernest William (born Dec of 1934). Jack built a house for the family in Bell where they lived for a short time.
A job with C. F. Braun and Company would cause a relocation to Phoenix, Arizona. He built buildings that would become Luke Air Force Base. Then, they moved to Uvalde, Texas to help build another air force base and to Childress to do the same.
Jack enlisted in the Special Corp of Engineers and headed to England in 1944. He landed in France just three days after D-Day. At the end of the war, He was discharged in Belgium. He wanted Gladys and the children to join him there. Gladys' mom would fight tooth and nail against the move. She would not allow it. Jack and Gladys were divorced in July of 1947.
He came home not long after and returned to life in Bell, California. He got a severe case of pneumonia during the summer of 1954. Six months later, he died of a massive heart attack.
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