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CURRENT MEMORIAL MANAGER DOES NOT KNOW WHO WROTE THE BIO
My grandfather used various years for his birth. It is different for his time in the U.S. Navy and for social security. I choose to use the year on social security as it is more likely accurate.
My mother did not know that her father had been married before and that she had a half sister. Her parents split up and were divorced before she was old enough to know him. He left before my uncle was born.
We knew he was from Texas. We knew he was dead. Social Security contacted both my mother and uncle when he died and sent a small survivor benefit of about 18 dollars.
I started to find him by writing social security to get a copy of his application. Took months but then I got his mother's maiden name and when and where he was born in Texas.
Later I got his health record from St. Louis for two tours in the U. S. Navy.
And after more waiting and writing I got from the U. S. Coast Guard his record from the Dept. of Commerce of his seaman's applications and some details of the ships he was on before he died. He usually was a seaman on tankers from Houston to New York City.
Recently I got a copy of a letter from his sister saying he had been buried in Houston along side his mother and younger sister. The letter was to Caroline Claire of Red Rock, Texas, whom my great aunt did not know about before she contacted him apparently after he died.
CURRENT MEMORIAL MANAGER DOES NOT KNOW WHO WROTE THE BIO
My grandfather used various years for his birth. It is different for his time in the U.S. Navy and for social security. I choose to use the year on social security as it is more likely accurate.
My mother did not know that her father had been married before and that she had a half sister. Her parents split up and were divorced before she was old enough to know him. He left before my uncle was born.
We knew he was from Texas. We knew he was dead. Social Security contacted both my mother and uncle when he died and sent a small survivor benefit of about 18 dollars.
I started to find him by writing social security to get a copy of his application. Took months but then I got his mother's maiden name and when and where he was born in Texas.
Later I got his health record from St. Louis for two tours in the U. S. Navy.
And after more waiting and writing I got from the U. S. Coast Guard his record from the Dept. of Commerce of his seaman's applications and some details of the ships he was on before he died. He usually was a seaman on tankers from Houston to New York City.
Recently I got a copy of a letter from his sister saying he had been buried in Houston along side his mother and younger sister. The letter was to Caroline Claire of Red Rock, Texas, whom my great aunt did not know about before she contacted him apparently after he died.
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CURRENT MEMORIAL MANAGER DOES NOT KNOW WHO WROTE THE BIO
My grandfather used various years for his birth. It is different for his time in the U.S. Navy and for social security. I choose to use the year on social security as it is more likely accurate.
My mother did not know that her father had been married before and that she had a half sister. Her parents split up and were divorced before she was old enough to know him. He left before my uncle was born.
We knew he was from Texas. We knew he was dead. Social Security contacted both my mother and uncle when he died and sent a small survivor benefit of about 18 dollars.
I started to find him by writing social security to get a copy of his application. Took months but then I got his mother's maiden name and when and where he was born in Texas.
Later I got his health record from St. Louis for two tours in the U. S. Navy.
And after more waiting and writing I got from the U. S. Coast Guard his record from the Dept. of Commerce of his seaman's applications and some details of the ships he was on before he died. He usually was a seaman on tankers from Houston to New York City.
Recently I got a copy of a letter from his sister saying he had been buried in Houston along side his mother and younger sister. The letter was to Caroline Claire of Red Rock, Texas, whom my great aunt did not know about before she contacted him apparently after he died.
CURRENT MEMORIAL MANAGER DOES NOT KNOW WHO WROTE THE BIO
My grandfather used various years for his birth. It is different for his time in the U.S. Navy and for social security. I choose to use the year on social security as it is more likely accurate.
My mother did not know that her father had been married before and that she had a half sister. Her parents split up and were divorced before she was old enough to know him. He left before my uncle was born.
We knew he was from Texas. We knew he was dead. Social Security contacted both my mother and uncle when he died and sent a small survivor benefit of about 18 dollars.
I started to find him by writing social security to get a copy of his application. Took months but then I got his mother's maiden name and when and where he was born in Texas.
Later I got his health record from St. Louis for two tours in the U. S. Navy.
And after more waiting and writing I got from the U. S. Coast Guard his record from the Dept. of Commerce of his seaman's applications and some details of the ships he was on before he died. He usually was a seaman on tankers from Houston to New York City.
Recently I got a copy of a letter from his sister saying he had been buried in Houston along side his mother and younger sister. The letter was to Caroline Claire of Red Rock, Texas, whom my great aunt did not know about before she contacted him apparently after he died.
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