Selectees (Enlisted Men)
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ROPEL JOSEPH C
MILWAUKEE WISCONSIN
Enlistment date 27-6-42
Private
Warrant Officers, USA WISCONSIN
Year of birth 1919
I also left message attached to record at Ancestry.com
Found this here: http://wvls.lib.wi.us/ClarkCounty/warner/history/Pioneers/indexS.htm
Thelma Angeline Thorson 11 Feb 1923, still living Dec 2007. Married Joe Ropel (son of Joseph and Cecilia nee Socik Ropel of Milwaukee, WI) 1 Nov 1941 in Milwaukee, WI divorced 1952, children Ronald Joseph b. 1942, Allan Lee b. 1946, d. 2001 lung cancer, Dale Richard b. 1948. Thelma next married Don Euclide (son of Joseph and Lena Euclide of Door Co., WI) in 1953 who legally adopted Thelma's three Ropel boys. Euclide children: Joanne Gail b. 1953, Diane Marie b. 1956, Sandra Ann b. 1963. Thelma and Don liked to travel, go dancing and enjoyed playing cards with friends. Thelma’s hair, like her sister Alice Mae, turned from blond-white to red after puberty, inherited from her Norwegian ancestors. Thelma, unlike her siblings, was very small, barely 5’ tall and small boned. Thelma and Don Euclide and family lived in Medford, WI most of their married life.
I contacted Sharon (from that website) and told her what we were trying to accomplish.
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