Adolph Jerome Yescalis (1917 - 2001)

Born 16 Sep 1917 in Shenandoah, Pennsylvania, United States

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Died 26 May 2001 at age 83 in Riverside, California, United States

Biography

Adolph was born in 1917. He passed away in 2001.^[1]

His life is recorded in his mother's diary.

Adolph was confirmed by Bishop Crane, Sept. 26, 1928. Jerome, Jeronimas. Sponsor William Menkewic"

Adolph went to the Army . . . went to Japan Dec. 16, and got there Dec. 27, 1949^[2]

Adolph began serving in the US military on June 1, 1940 and served through World War II, Korea and Vietnam. He was discharged on July 31, 1971.^[3][4]

It seems his service began in the US Army and in 1946 he enlisted into the Army Air Corp volunteering for assignment to Hawaii.^[5] And his military service then continued with the Air Force when it was created in 1947.

He married Lucille Arblaster.

Sources

1. ↑ U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014. Ancestry.com, Ancestry.com Operations Inc., 2014, Provo, UT, USA. Retrieved October 30, 2018, from https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&dbid=3693&h=69296554
2. ↑ A Lithuanian Grandmother: Triumph of Spirit Over Circumstance," Litunas, LIthuanian Quarterly Journal of Arts and Sciences, Volume 29, No. 3 - Fall 1983. (http://www.old.lituanus.org/1983_3/83_3_03.htm : Accessed September 21, 2023
3. ↑ Ancestry.com. U.S., Department of Veterans Affairs BIRLS Death File, 1850-2010 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011. Original data: Beneficiary Identification Records Locator Subsystem (BIRLS) Death File. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.
4. ↑ National Cemetery Administration. U.S. Veterans' Gravesites, ca.1775-2006 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2006.
5. ↑ "United States World War II Army Enlistment Records, 1938-1946," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K8LD-9RX : 5 December 2014), Adolph J Yescalis, enlisted 08 Apr 1946, Mitchel Field, Hempstead, Long Island, New York, United States; citing "Electronic Army Serial Number Merged File, ca. 1938-1946," database, The National Archives: Access to Archival Databases (AAD) (http://aad.archives.gov : National Archives and Records Administration, 2002); NARA NAID 126323, National Archives at College Park, Maryland.

See also:

• "United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, 1980-2014," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QKK2-RKZY : accessed 18 April 2018), Mr Adolph P Yescalis, Riverside, California, United States, 31 May 2001; from "Recent Newspaper Obituaries (1977 - Today)," database, GenealogyBank.com (http://www.genealogybank.com : 2014); citing Press-Enterprise, The, born-digital text.
• Find A Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 18 April 2018), memorial page for Adolph J Yescalis (16 Sep 1917–26 May 2001), Find A Grave Memorial no. 72611579, citing Riverside National Cemetery, Riverside, Riverside County, California, USA ; Maintained by Find A Grave (contributor 8) .