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- [S8] Information from an informant - Auskunft eines Informanten - Information d'un informateur.
Proposed Change: David Wilson Latta (I70129)
Tree: Südpfalz / Southern Palatinate
Link: http://www.birkenhoerdt.net/getperson.php?personID=I70129&tree=Suedpfalz
Description: Children per 1920 Ohio census:
Search CollectionAbout this CollectionName David Latta
Residence , Stark, Ohio
Estimated Birth Year 1882
Age 38
Birthplace Ohio
Relationship to Head of Household Self
Gender Male
Race White
Marital Status Married
Father's Birthplace Ohio
Mother's Birthplace Ohio
Film Number 1821435
Digital Folder Number 4385095
Image Number 00356
Sheet Number 12
Household Gender Age
David Latta M 38y
Spouse Effie Latta F 37y
Child Elton L Latta M 13y
Child Zelva D Latta M 11y
Child Donald G Latta M 9y
Child Ja-Nedith E Latta F 6y
Child Vernon J. 4.1y
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- [S927] Obituary.
Latta, Vernon John Latta
Source: The Canton [Ohio] Repository; Tuesday, January 4, 2011
Vernon John Latta, age, 95, youngest child of David Wilson and Effie Jane (Schaub) Latta, passed peacefully from this earth on Sunday, January 2, at Hendricks Regional Hospital in Danville, Indiana, following a year's battle with a multitude of health problems.
Vern was born August 21, 1915, in Canton, Ohio. Growing up he loved to hunt and fish and work with tools. It was while at Canton South High School that he met Mary Elizabeth Miller, and he said that he knew right away that he would marry that girl some day. Many years later, August 23, 1940, they were married. Her brother, Johnny Miller (Elsie) of East Sparta is still his best friend.
Vern worked at Hercules Motors in Canton, Ohio, before being drafted into the Army Air Force in 1943. In India he was part of a non-combat headquarters unit of the 20th Air Force that made and repaired airstrips and airplanes. The airstrips were used as a base to fly B-29's and C-46's and some gliders to China. This was known as flying the hump (over the Himalayas). Vern flew many trips in and out of China. On one of his trips to China there were four soldiers in the plane. The engines died, and the captain told them to jump and, shortly after, Vern saw the big fireball of the plane crash. He never saw the pilot or the captain again. Vern and the other private wandered about the countryside with no guns and subsisted on berries and hand-outs from the mountain people. Once a Chinese lady hid them in a cave. He was in China about 60 days altogether before flying back to the base in India. He was awarded four bronze stars for his contributions in the Asian-Pacific Theater in World War II.
After the war he and his brother Don established Latta Brothers, a feedmill and fuel oil business in Robertsville, Ohio. He continued to work there until moving to Fort Myers Beach, Florida, in 1967. There he worked for the Privateer, the first condominium at Fort Myers Beach. He and Mary focussed their time on fishing and gardening, playing bridge and euchre, and on work for the Fort Myers Beach Baptist Church. Vern was a deacon and head of the building committee that constructed the new church. While still in Canton, Vern filled the same capacity with Trinity Brethren Church, both as a deacon and as chairman of the building committee.
Mary died October 18, 1998. Also preceding him in death in addition to his parents were an infant son, Jerry Richard Latta in 1946 and Vern's siblings, Elton, Zelvon, Donald, and Jan Edith Latta.
In 1999 Vern married family-friend Elizabeth (Folger) Thomasy. He thought he was so lucky to have found two wonderful women in his lifetime. For ten years they enjoyed summers in Vermont and winters in Florida. She survives. Also surviving are his daughter, Betty Jane (Don) Kitchen of Brownsburg, Indiana; two grandchildren, Jim (Drusilla) Kitchen and Kelli Kitchen-Ross (Randy Ross); five great-grandchildren: Madison, Riley, Ryder Ross and Andrew and Mikaela Kitchen.
Private memorial services will be held by the family.
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1915 - 2011 (95 years)
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