Louis Clarence Cabay, S1C with the United States Navy died in the Pearl Harbor attack on Dec. 7, 1941.
Louis Clarence Cabay was born in 1923 in Joliet, Illinois to Czech immigrants Frank Cabay and Theresa Bakos Cabay. The father, a railroad car repairman, came to the United States in 1909 and the mother, a homemaker, arrived in 1911.
The couple had nine children. One son died in infancy in 1928 and another was six when he died in 1935.
By the time of the spring 1940 Census the family, which then included one daughter and six sons, lived in Joliet, Illinois. Most of them worked: the father still in car repair and the five oldest children doing housekeeping, clerking at department stores, and laboring at a calendar company. Son Louis, 16, was a messenger boy for a telegraph company. He worked 52 weeks in 1939 and earned $364. He had completed one year of high school but was no longer enrolled.
Louise Clarence enlisted in the Navy on Oct. 8, 1940, and went aboard the U.S.S. Arizona on Dec. 9, 1940. He was a seaman first class on the U.S.S. Arizona when he was killed in the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Dec. 7, 1941. (USS Arizona Mall Memorial)
Louis Clarence Cabay was born in 1923 in Joliet, Illinois to Czech immigrants Frank Cabay and Theresa Bakos Cabay. The father, a railroad car repairman, came to the United States in 1909 and the mother, a homemaker, arrived in 1911.
The couple had nine children. One son died in infancy in 1928 and another was six when he died in 1935.
By the time of the spring 1940 Census the family, which then included one daughter and six sons, lived in Joliet, Illinois. Most of them worked: the father still in car repair and the five oldest children doing housekeeping, clerking at department stores, and laboring at a calendar company. Son Louis, 16, was a messenger boy for a telegraph company. He worked 52 weeks in 1939 and earned $364. He had completed one year of high school but was no longer enrolled.
Louise Clarence enlisted in the Navy on Oct. 8, 1940, and went aboard the U.S.S. Arizona on Dec. 9, 1940. He was a seaman first class on the U.S.S. Arizona when he was killed in the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Dec. 7, 1941. (USS Arizona Mall Memorial)
Louis Clarence Cabay, S1C with the United States Navy died in the Pearl Harbor attack on Dec. 7, 1941.
Louis Clarence Cabay was born in 1923 in Joliet, Illinois to Czech immigrants Frank Cabay and Theresa Bakos Cabay. The father, a railroad car repairman, came to the United States in 1909 and the mother, a homemaker, arrived in 1911.
The couple had nine children. One son died in infancy in 1928 and another was six when he died in 1935.
By the time of the spring 1940 Census the family, which then included one daughter and six sons, lived in Joliet, Illinois. Most of them worked: the father still in car repair and the five oldest children doing housekeeping, clerking at department stores, and laboring at a calendar company. Son Louis, 16, was a messenger boy for a telegraph company. He worked 52 weeks in 1939 and earned $364. He had completed one year of high school but was no longer enrolled.
Louise Clarence enlisted in the Navy on Oct. 8, 1940, and went aboard the U.S.S. Arizona on Dec. 9, 1940. He was a seaman first class on the U.S.S. Arizona when he was killed in the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Dec. 7, 1941. (USS Arizona Mall Memorial)
Louis Clarence Cabay was born in 1923 in Joliet, Illinois to Czech immigrants Frank Cabay and Theresa Bakos Cabay. The father, a railroad car repairman, came to the United States in 1909 and the mother, a homemaker, arrived in 1911.
The couple had nine children. One son died in infancy in 1928 and another was six when he died in 1935.
By the time of the spring 1940 Census the family, which then included one daughter and six sons, lived in Joliet, Illinois. Most of them worked: the father still in car repair and the five oldest children doing housekeeping, clerking at department stores, and laboring at a calendar company. Son Louis, 16, was a messenger boy for a telegraph company. He worked 52 weeks in 1939 and earned $364. He had completed one year of high school but was no longer enrolled.
Louise Clarence enlisted in the Navy on Oct. 8, 1940, and went aboard the U.S.S. Arizona on Dec. 9, 1940. He was a seaman first class on the U.S.S. Arizona when he was killed in the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Dec. 7, 1941. (USS Arizona Mall Memorial)
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