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GRAHL (GROELER) Family History, Part III

Arthur William GRAHL⁴ (1910-1977)

1261. Arthur William Grahl⁴ was born on September 18, 1910, in Wyandotte, Wayne County, Michigan. On December 22, 1943, he married Catherine Eva Jurkewicz, a native of New York who moved to Wayne County as a toddler. They had two children:

12611.	Ardith Kay Grahl5	--	--	--
12612.	Arthur William "Billy" Grahl, Jr.	26 Sep 1948	10 Oct 2010	(62)

Arthur grew up in Wayne County, Michigan, south of Detroit.

At some point during World War II, Arthur enlisted in the Army. Judging from his shoulder insignia, he was assigned to the 12th Armored Division, which served under General Patton's Seventh Army and swept across northern France, the Maginot Line, and southern Germany, between November 1944 and May 1945. Arthur, however, is curiously not recalled to have served overseas during the war.

By the mid-1940's he moved to Pontiac, Oakland County, to the north of Detroit and started a family. He worked as a welder for 25 years at General Motors.

The Grahl family moved west to California, around 1955 or 1956, a little while after his in-laws did, and settled in Analy Township, Sonoma County, on the outskirts of Sebastopol.

Catherine Eve (Jurkewicz) Grahl died on June 2, 1974, in Santa Rosa, Sonoma County, California, at the age of 56 years. She was buried at Pleasant Hill Memorial Park in Sebastopol.

Arthur William Grahl died three years later on October 18, 1977, in Sonoma County, at the age of 67 years. He is also buried at Pleasant Hill Memorial Park in Sebastopol.

Benjamin F. GRAHL (1912-1995)

1262. Benjamin F. Grahl was born on October 11, 1912, in Michigan, likely in Wyandotte or Ecorse, Wayne County.

Ben lived with his mother at 45089 Ecorse Road, Belleville, Wayne County, at the time of her death in 1951.

Later Ben moved in with his sister Sophie after her divorce.

Benjamin F. Grahl died on March 8, 1995, in Wyandotte at the age of 82.^{[Dth 1995]} He had been living with his sister Sophie at the time.

Charles E. GRAHL (1914-1989)

1263. Charles "Chuck" E. Grahl was born on May 8, 1914, in Michigan, likely in Wyandotte or Ecorse, Wayne County. He married Dorothy and had one daughter:

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Dorothy Grahl

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Chuck and Dorothy later divorced and Chuck remarried to a woman named Lucille.

Charles E. Grahl died on December 12, 1989, in Michigan at the age of 75.^{[Dth 1989]}

Otto Richard GRAHL (1916-1989)

1265. Otto Richard Grahl was born on October 14 or 24, 1916, in Michigan, likely in Wyandotte or Ecorse, Wayne County. He married Agnes Eleanor Ogon (Ogoniewicz) and had two children:

12651.	Richard Grahl	--	--	--
12652.	Janice Grahl	--	--	--

The Grahl family lived in Garden City, Wayne County, Michigan, in the western suburbs of Detroit.

Agnes Eleanor (Oden) Grahl died of cancer on June 14, 1986, in Southfield, Oakland County, Michigan, at the age of 70.^{[Dth 1986]}

Otto Richard Grahl died three years later after battling amyotrophic lateral sclerosis ("ALS" or "Lou Gehrig's disease") on May 19, 1989, in Novi, Oakland County, Michigan. He was 72 years old.^{[Dth 1989]}

Sophia (GRAHL) CARNEY (~1920-~2009)

1266. Sophia "Sophie" Grahl was born about 1920 or 1921 in Michigan, probably in Ecorse or Wyandotte, Wayne County. She married Earl Carney, a truck driver, and had three sons:

12661.	William Carney	--	--	--
12662.	Robert Carney	--	--	--
12663.	John Carney	--	--	--

Sophie and Earl later divorced, and sometime afterward her elder brother Ben moved in with her until he died in 1995.

Sophia (Grahl) Carney died about 2009.