Glen Edward Harding (1919 - 2008)

Born 5 Jan 1919 in Garden City, Clark, South Dakota

Ancestors

Husband of Bernice Elizabeth (Lueders) Harding — married 21 Jun 1941 (to 27 Sep 1966) in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA

Died 19 Sep 2008 at age 89 in Aloha, Washington, Oregon

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Biography

Glen was born and raised on a farm a couple of miles NW of Garden City, SD. After graduating from Garden City High School he left the farm behind and drove with his cousin to Southern California. There he began a career as a machinist and married Bernice Lueders. His first son, Keith, was born i 1942. During WWII he served in the U.S. Army first as an Infantryman during the closing months of the war and then as an Escort Guard in Nuremburg during the trials. His second son, Kevin, was born in 1949 and they continued to live in California until 1960 when they moved to HIllsboro, OR. He maintained a life long interest in Ham Radio (call sign K7OMK), and all things mechanical especially repairing and reproducing antique clocks. He died in 2008 at the age of 89.

Research Notes

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SOURCES

Biography

• Prepared by Kevin Harding from personal knowledge and sources including but not limited to those below.

Birth

• Delayed Birth Certificate issued by State of South Dakota. Original in possession of Kevin Harding on 27 Jul 2018
  

Marriage

• Certificate of Marriage issued by State of California, County of Los Angeles. In posession of Kevin Harding on 27 Jul 2018

Census Records

• "United States Census, 1920," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M6J8-56R : accessed 5 August 2018), Archie W Harding, Maydell, Clark, South Dakota, United States; citing ED 80, sheet 8A, line 45, family 11, NARA microfilm publication T625 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1992), roll 1717; FHL microfilm 1,821,717.

• "United States Census, 1930," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XQJY-1F9 : accessed 5 August 2018), Archie W Harding, Maydell, Clark, South Dakota, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 19, sheet 1A, line 5, family 2, NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 2219; FHL microfilm 2,341,953.

• "South Dakota State Census, 1935," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MV41-215 : 30 July 2017), Glenn Harding, Maydell, Clark, South Dakota; citing p. 174, State Historical Society, Pierre; FHL microfilm 2,369,723.
  

• "United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K97K-32Z : accessed 5 August 2018), Glen Harding in household of John Travers, El Monte Judicial Township, Los Angeles, California, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 19-167, sheet 7A, line 18, family 139, Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940, NARA digital publication T627. Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790 - 2007, RG 29. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012, roll 228.

Military

• "United States World War II Army Enlistment Records, 1938-1946," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K857-CV8 : 5 December 2014), Glen E Harding, enlisted 07 Jul 1944, Los Angeles, California, 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 1263923, National Archives at College Park, Maryland.
  

Death and Burial

• "United States Social Security Death Index," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VMCQ-SJ7 : 20 May 2014), Glen E Harding, 19 Sep 2008; citing U.S. Social Security Administration, Death Master File, database (Alexandria, Virginia: National Technical Information Service, ongoing).

• Find-A-Grave (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/175037801/glen-edward-harding) memorial accessed 28 Jul 2018

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