Wendell registered for the World War II draft and enlisted March 28, 1944 in the US Army.[3]
Wendell married Virginia Dearth about 1945 and they made their home in Mount Airy, Maryland and later in South Daytona, Florida[4] until his death February 3, 2018. He made his living as a school bus dispatcher in Montgomery County, Maryland. Wendell died February 3, 2018 and is buried in Lafayette Memorial Park, Brier Hill, Pennsylvania.[5]
Obituary
Wendell S Knox, age 92, of South Daytona, Florida, died on Saturday, February 3, 2018. He was born in Grindstone, Pennsylvania on December 24, 1925 to Catherine (Wensing) Knox and Wilbur Knox.
He leaves behind his wife of 57 years, Virginia (Dearth) Knox; a special cousin, Glenn Knox and family; and a sister, Thelma Angelina. Besides his mother and father, he was predeceased by siblings, Genevieve Knox, Mildred Knox and Lloyd Knox.
Wendell served 12 years in the US Army, the 3rd Armored Calvary. He retired from the Montgomery County Public Schools, Gaithersburg, Maryland, in the transportation department as a service writer.
There will be no public viewing. Private services and burial are under the direction of the Skirpan Funeral Home, 135 Park Street, Brownsville, Pennsylvania. www.skirpanfuneralhome.com.[6]
Sources
↑ "United States Census, 1930," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XH33-NMK : accessed 10 July 2017), Wendell Knox in household of Wilbur S Knox, Redstone, Fayette, Pennsylvania, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 74, sheet 9A, line 15, family 143, NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 2041; FHL microfilm 2,341,775.
↑ "United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KQQ5-BLD : accessed 10 July 2017), Wendell Knox in household of Carrie Knox, Redstone Township, Fayette, Pennsylvania, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 26-86, sheet 7B, line 73, family 224, 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 3506.
↑ "United States World War II Army Enlistment Records, 1938-1946," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K8TJ-XWR : 5 December 2014), Wendell S Knox, enlisted 28 Mar 1944, New Cumberland, Pennsylvania, 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.
↑ "United States Public Records, 1970-2009," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KTJ4-D7X : 23 May 2014), Wendell Seward Knox, Residence, South Daytona, Florida, United States; a third party aggregator of publicly available information.
↑ Find A Grave: Memorial #218049703 Wendell S. Knox (1925–2018), Lafayette Memorial Park, Brier Hill, Fayette County, Pennsylvania, USA
Nieman Clan History compiled by Helen Marie (Newcomer) Maust. Aunt Helen attended most all the Nieman Family Reunions and the Frankhouser Family Reunions. She gathered information from family members who attended the Reunions over the years sharing information about family lore and updated information about each branch. Around 1980 she put information together by typewriter and created a very large document that included all of the information about the Nieman and Frankhouser clans. Both branches intertwined in various ways and trace back to the common ancestors of John Blosser who emigrated from Switzerland and was of German origin. In the following years, she provided updates after the reunions were over and she could add the new information gathered at the reunions to the document. That document has been scanned as a PDF file.
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It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Wendell by comparing test results with other carriers of his ancestors' Y-chromosome or mitochondrial DNA.
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