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John F Ghrist Sr 1927 - 2006

John F Ghrist Sr of Akron, Summit County, OH was born on January 6, 1927, and died at age 79 years old on March 9, 2006. John Ghrist was buried at Ohio Western Reserve National Cemetery Section 20 Site 493 10175 Rawiga Rd - Po Box #8, in Rittman.
John F Ghrist Sr
Akron, Summit County, OH 44301
January 6, 1927
March 9, 2006
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  • 01/6
    1927

    Birthday

    January 6, 1927
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  • Military Service

    Branch of service: Us Army Rank attained: CPL Wars/Conflicts: World War Ii
  • 03/9
    2006

    Death

    March 9, 2006
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    Unknown
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  • Gravesite & Burial

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    Ohio Western Reserve National Cemetery Section 20 Site 493 10175 Rawiga Rd - Po Box #8, in Rittman, Oh 44270
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In 1927, in the year that John F Ghrist Sr was born, aviator and media darling Charles Lindbergh, age 25, made the first successful solo TransAtlantic flight. "Lucky Lindy" took off from Long Island in New York and flew to Paris, covering  3,600 statute miles and flying for 33 1⁄2-hours. His plane "The Spirit of St. Louis" was a fabric-covered, single-seat, single-engine "Ryan NYP" high-wing monoplane designed by both Lindbergh and the manufacturer's chief engineer.
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In 1943, when he was 16 years old, on June 20th through June 22nd, the Detroit Race Riot erupted at Belle Isle Park. The rioting spread throughout the city (made worse by false rumors of attacks on blacks and whites) and resulted in the deployment of 6,000 Federal troops. 34 people were killed, (25 of them black) - mostly by white police or National Guardsmen, 433 were wounded (75 percent of them black) and an estimated $2 million of property was destroyed. The same summer, there were riots in Beaumont, Texas and Harlem, New York.
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