Earl
Chester
Yohe
Born in Spring Grove, York, Pennsylvania, United States
Ancestors 
Brother of
Eva M. (Yohe) Grogg and Fred E. Yohe
Husband of
Marie Antoinette (Marchio) Yohe
— married
about 1938 in York, Pennsylvania, United States
Husband of
Rose Marie (Senft) Yohe
— married
28 Apr 1946 in York, Pennsylvania, United States
[children unknown]
Died
at age 85
in York Township, York, Pennsylvania, United States
Profile last modified
| Created 17 Dec 2019
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Biography
Earl Yohe has German Roots.
Earl Yohe was a Pennsylvanian.
Earl, son of Cletus Sylvester Yohe and Leah Naomi Strausbaugh,[1] was born 6 August 1918 in Spring Grove, York County, Pennsylvania.[1][2] He grew up there, where in 1920, the household at 247 North Water Street consisted of his parents Cletus S. (age 29, paper mill stack-runner) and Leah N. Yohe (25), Earl Chester (1) and his sister Eva M. (7).[3]
By 1930, Sylvester (age 40, paper mill painter) and Leah N. Yohe (35) purchased a home at 247 Water Street in Spring Grove, where they raised their children Eva M. (18, knitting mill machine runner), Earl C. Yohe (11) and Fred E. (3).[4]
About 1938, Earl married Marie Antoinette Marchio,[1][5] daughter of the Italian-born Antonio Giuseppe "Anthony Joseph" Marchio and his wife Mary Caroline Coble.[6] The may have had a child.[1][7]
The economy in tatters at the end of the Great Depression, Earl C. (21, barber shop owner) and his wife Marie A. Yohe (23, trouser seamstress, pants factory) settled in his parents' home in Spring Grove, where the household in 1940 included Cletus S. (age 50, runs calendar stacks at paper mill), Leah N. (45), and Earl's brother Fred E. Yohe (13).[5] The record shows that Earl had completed his freshman year of high school; Marie was a high-school graduate; his father had completed six years of formal education and his mother, seven.[5]
His wife died 3 August 1940.[8]
On 31 August 1942 at Harrisburg, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, Earl enlisted in the United States Army.[7] He served in the 2nd Armored Division in Africa, Sicily, and the European Theatre of Operations for three years. "His service record included the Arrow Head Award for beachhead operations in the Sicilian Campaign and 6 Battle Stars in the European Theatre of Operations as a TEC 5. He was also the recipient of the Belgian Fourragere Unit Citation from the Belgium Government."[1]
After returning from the war, on 28 April 1946 in York County, he married Rose Marie Senft,[1][9] daughter of William Clarence Senft and Claudia Emma Stambaugh.[9] They had one son.[1][9]
Earl died 3 February 2004 at Manor Care Health Services South in York Township, York County,[2] and was buried 5 February 2004 at Spring Grove Cemetery in Spring Grove.[1]
[3] [4] [6] [5] [7] [1] [2] [8] [9]
Sources
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 Find a Grave, database and images (accessed 29 August 2020), memorial page for Earl Chester Yohe (6 Aug 1918–3 Feb 2004), Find A Grave: Memorial #25511737, citing Spring Grove Cemetery, Spring Grove, York County, Pennsylvania, USA; Maintained by GerbLady (contributor 46637511). Earl's memorial includes an obituary. His headstone is engraved with full birth and death dates.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 United States Social Security Death Index, database, FamilySearch (20 May 2014), Earl C Yohe, 03 Feb 2004; citing U.S. Social Security Administration, Death Master File, database (Alexandria, Virginia: National Technical Information Service, ongoing).
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 United States Census, 1920, database with images, FamilySearch (accessed 17 December 2019), Earl C Yoke in household of Cletus S Yoke, Spring Grove, York, Pennsylvania, United States; citing ED 99, sheet 8B, line 95, family 201, NARA microfilm publication T625 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1992), roll 1667; FHL microfilm 1,821,667.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 United States Census, 1930, database with images, FamilySearch (accessed 17 December 2019), Earl C Yohe in household of Sylvester Yohe, Spring Grove, York, Pennsylvania, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 74, sheet 7B, line 62, family 178, NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 2166; FHL microfilm 2,341,900.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 United States Census, 1940, database with images, FamilySearch (20 August 2019), Earl C Yohe in household of Cletus S Yohe, Spring Grove Borough, York, Pennsylvania, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 67-90, sheet 2B, line 62, family 45, 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 3644. In 1935, Marie Antoinette was living in Hanover with her parents, so the couple married after that time.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 United States Census, 1930, database with images, FamilySearch (accessed 29 August 2020), Marie A Marchio in household of Anthony Y Marchio, Hanover, York, Pennsylvania, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 31, sheet 5A, line 25, family 119, NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 2165; FHL microfilm 2,341,899.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 United States World War II Army Enlistment Records, 1938-1946, database, FamilySearch (5 December 2014), Earl C Yohe, enlisted 31 Aug 1942, Harrisburg, 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 1263923, National Archives at College Park, Maryland. His marital status is given as 'Widower or widow, with dependents.'
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Find a Grave, database and images (accessed 29 August 2020), memorial page for Marie Antoinette Marchio Yohe (15 Nov 1915–3 Aug 1940), Find A Grave: Memorial #26138914, citing Spring Grove Cemetery, Spring Grove, York County, Pennsylvania, USA; Maintained by GerbLady (contributor 46637511). Her headstone is engraved with full birth and death dates.
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, 1980-2014, database with images, FamilySearch (accessed 29 August 2020), Rose Marie Yohe, Pennsylvania, United States, 3 Mar 1999; from "Recent Newspaper Obituaries (1977 - Today)," database, GenealogyBank.com (2014); citing York Daily Record, born-digital text.
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This profile was created, researched and initially written by Kathy Rabenstein (unrelated).
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