Thanks - I have no significant knowledge of him but my mother and father are both alive. He died in 1952, three years before I was born.
My mother, Virginia Partney, nee Santschi, can be reached by phone or email. I think she has some information - certainly my father knows more about him than he has told me. Her email is vapartney@jcn.net and phone is 636 - 475 - 4358.