Kal was born in 1915 and died in 1981 at the age of 66.[1]
In 1920 and 1940 censuses he appears with his parents and siblings in Maynard, Massachusetts.[2][3]
He enlisted in the Army at Ft. Devens on 3 August 1943. He had already finished a four-year college degree.[4]
Kal is in a group photo here from "Greylock Hike", State Teachers College 1947, North Adams, Mass.
He is buried at Glenwood Cemetery in Maynard, Massachusetts.[5]
Sources
↑ "United States Social Security Death Index," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JBGS-GWR : 7 January 2021), Kalervo Kansanniva, Feb 1981; citing U.S. Social Security Administration, Death Master File, database (Alexandria, Virginia: National Technical Information Service, ongoing).
↑ "United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K4FV-R5J : 10 January 2021), Kalerno Kansonniva in household of George A Kansonniva, Maynard, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 9-292, sheet 3B, line 60, family 73, 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 1610.
↑ "United States World War II Army Enlistment Records, 1938-1946," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K8R9-16H : 5 December 2014), Kalervo Kansanniva, enlisted 03 Aug 1943, Ft Devens, Massachusetts, 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.
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