Carl William Eugene Terwilliger Jr. (1924 - 2017)

Born 22 Jul 1924 in Toledo, Lucas, Ohio, United States

Ancestors

Husband of Sophia (Kully) Terwilliger — married 3 Nov 1945 (to 21 Jun 1967) in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Husband of Shirley Frommer — married 24 Jun 1967 (to 22 Jun 1970) in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA

Husband of Lamona Blanche (Brown) Terwilliger — married 18 Dec 1971 in Glendale, Los Angeles, California

Descendants

Died 21 Jan 2017 at age 92 in Pasadena, Los Angeles, California, United States

Carl Terwilliger Jr. is a Military Veteran.
Served in the United States Army Air Corps 1943-1946

Biography

Birth

Date: 22 Jul 1924

Place: Toledo, Lucas, Ohio^[1]

Education & Career

Carl was schooled mostly in Findlay, having only attended kindergarten in Toledo at Lincoln Elementary School. In Findlay he went to Lincoln Grammar School, J.C. Donnell Junior High School, and finally graduating from Findlay High School in June, 1942. He immediately enrolled in the summer semester at Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio, having received a full scholarship. However, he didn't adjust to college life and joined the Army on January 19, 1943.^[2]

After leaving the Army, he came to Los Angeles, where his parents had moved, and enrolled at the University of California, Los Angeles in 1946. Carl majored in social psychology and graduated in 1948. On September 20, 1949, he began a year-long training class for the Los Angeles County Probation Department, where he worked from 1950 until his retirement in 1986.^[3]

Military

Carl enlisted January 19, 1943. He was sent to Kenyon College, in Gambier, Ohio, for a meteorology training program. However, one year later he was sent to Yale for the Communications Officer Training Program, which he finished in October, 1944.

Carl was then stationed in Canada and Alaska, working with the U.S. Army Air Corps' Army Airways communication systems until April, 1946 when he was discharged. While in Edmonton, Alberta, he met his first wife, Sophia Kully. They were married in Edmonton on November 3, 1945.^[4][5]

Death

Date: 21 Jan 2017

Place: Pasadena, Los Angeles, California, USA

Buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale^[6]

Sources

1. ↑ City of Toledo, Ohio, Transcript of a Record of Birth (1942). Carl Terwilliger, digital image in possession of Alex Terwilliger
2. ↑ Wells, Robert Hewitson, ed. Memories of Some Forty Niner's, 2nd printing. (October, 1994); p. 112-113
3. ↑ Wells, Robert Hewitson, ed. Memories of Some Forty Niner's, 2nd printing. (October, 1994); p. 114
4. ↑ Wells, Robert Hewitson, ed. Memories of Some Forty Niner's, 2nd printing. (October, 1994); p. 114
5. ↑ United States World War II Army Enlistment Records, 1938-1946, database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K8G1-B6V : accessed 11 April 2016), Carl W Jr Terwilliger, enlisted 19 Jan 1943, Toledo, Ohio, 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.
6. ↑ FindAGrave.com; https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/186121741