Ralph Leroy Broedel

1921 - 1944  (22 years)

• Name	Ralph Leroy Broedel
  Born	29 Oct 1921	McConnelsville, Morgan County, Ohio, USA
  Gender	Male
  Died	13 Jun 1944	South Pacific
  Buried	Y  [1]
  Person ID	I188764	Suedpfalz
  Last Modified	15 Jun 2014

  
  

  Father	John Broedel,   b. 1 Jun 1881, Harriettsville, Elk Township, Noble County, Ohio, USA ,   d. 1 May 1944, McConnelsville, Morgan County, Ohio, USA  (Age 62 years)
  Mother	Sarah Eleanor Whitehouse,   b. 9 Apr 1883, Morgan County, Ohio, USA ,   d. 30 Jul 1924, Morgan County, Ohio, USA  (Age 41 years)
  Married	16 Apr 1913
  Family ID	F72153	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Sources

  [S926] Find-A-Grave, (www.findagrave.com). Ens Ralph Leroy Broedel Birth: Oct. 29, 1921 McConnelsville Morgan County Ohio, USA Death: Jun. 13, 1944 Ensign Broedel, unmarried, attended Ohio University for two years before enlisting in the Navy in Sept. 1941. He received his fighter pilot training in Corpus Christi, TX, and died during routine takeoff from an aircraft carrier in the Pacific after the engine on his plane failed. His body was never recovered, but his name is inscribed here on his parents' stone in addition to the Tablets of the Missing at the Manila American Cemetery and Memorial (ABMC) in the Philippines where many Navy dead are memorialized. (Another listing on Find a Grave shows record of this memorial.) He was the brother of Elmer, Howard, Margaret, and Eleanor Broedel and grandson of Michael and Margaret Stoffel Broedel and Israel and Mary Catherine Hastings Whitehouse. Died at age 22. Family links: Parents: John Broedel (1881 - 1944) Sarah Eleanor Whitehouse Broedel (1883 - 1924) Note: WW II Burial: Meigs Cemetery Morgan County Ohio, USA Maintained by: Nancy Lane Kegresse Originally Created by: Robert "Rob" Weller Record added: Jun 09, 2005 Find A Grave Memorial# 11131839