Mattoon, IL. In his high school years, he was double promoted causingh im to graduate the same year as sister, June. She graduatedmid-term, J ack in the spring of 1946.
6/26/1946 He was inducted into the US Navy and discharged 4/24/1948.
1951 Peoria, IL. Both Jack and Ann worked at the Home InsuranceCompa ny when they met and married.
DeKalb, IL. Jack lived nearly all his adult life in the Chicago areaa s an insurance broker and underwriter.
1996 Neoga, IL. Returning to the slower pace of downstate and to ben earer siblings, Jack moved within a few months after his wife died.
Sister, Doris, related one unique relationship between her family andJ ack's:
"Family reunions were a big event every year and for several yearsJack , Ann, and the family spent that week-end with us. The boysslept in t he dump trucks and we settled Ann down with a glass of winewhile bonin g the turkey. I always wondered if that was why, in lateryears, she q uit coming!"
