John and Gertrude are, or rather were, my grandparents on my father's side. They had 4 sons, all four of whom are now deceased. The oldest, Jack, was killed in WW2, Herb, the youngest, died of a heart attack in Palm Springs, CA in 1979 (his widow lives in VA now with her sister, just spoke to her a couple of weeks ago), my father, the next-to-oldest, died of a heart attack in 1981 and the last brother, Hollis (Lefty) died a few years ago in Issiquah, WA. The only children out of the four were myself, and 2 other sons and a daughter of Lefty's. The daughter lives in the Seattle area, one son in the Midwest and not sure where the other son is located.
That's about all the info I can provide since I'm overseas at the present and do not have my genealogy info with me. If you contact me through this board, please send me a copy of the email to my personal address of
putnam.tom@gmail.com I'll provide any additional info both as a reply to what you send me there as well as a reply to your message here so that others may share the info also. But I seldom check in here as a result of where I am located at present.
Thanks.
Tom Putnam