One of my grandfather’s first cousins was Robert Gere Vosler (1904-1968) of Ellwood City, Pennsylvania. Before entering the navy in 1942, Robert worked as a musician, touring the northeast and mid-west of the United States, playing the trumpet and saxophone with the dance band The Keystone Serenaders. He enlisted in…
Category: <span>World War II</span>
Listening to a recent NPR radio story about New York City mayor Fiorello La Guardia during World War 2, I was reminded of the participation of one Mallalieu family member in the home front war effort. My husband’s great uncle was Reginald Mumford Mallalieu (1919-2000). He was born in the…
My husband’s ancestors from St Kitts include his 3rd great-grandparents originally from Madeira, Francisco Ricardo de Meneses Cabral and Libania Joaquina Vieira da Silva. Their daughter Eliza was his 2nd great-grandmother, while another daughter Ascenia Augusta was the grandmother of Edgar Oscar Challenger (1905-2000), a labor leader and historian of St…