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Roy Edward Gehrke 1921 - 1944

Roy Edward Gehrke was born on March 3, 1921 in Herington, Dickinson County, KS to Otto Freidrich Herman Gehrke and Clara Bertha Wilhelmina (Brockmeier) Gehrke, and had siblings Esther Bertha (Gehrke) Pine, Otto Herman Gehrke Jr, Milton Clarence Gehrke, Clarence Lavern Gehrke, and Richard Robert Gehrke. Roy Gehrke died at age 23 years old on September 17, 1944 in Germany, and was buried on October 26, 1944 at Sunset Hill Cemetry in Herington.

Roy Edward Gehrke

March 3, 1921

Herington, Dickinson County, KS

September 17, 1944

Germany

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See headstone at Find A Grave Memorial ID 52109958 listed under 2LT Roy E Gehrke Obituary is quite long: See Herington Times-Sun Nov. 2, 1944 p.1 col 2 MEMORIAL FOR LT ROY GEHRKE LAST THURSDAY another article See Herington Times-Sun Oct. 12, 1944 p. 1 HERINGTON OFFICER DIES FROM WOUNDS
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1921

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March 3, 1921

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Herington, Dickinson County, KS

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1944

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September 17, 1944

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killed in action WWII

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Germany
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10/26

1944

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October 26, 1944

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Sunset Hill Cemetry in Herington, Dickinson County, KS
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Roy Edward Gehrke lived 51 years shorter than the average family member when died at the age of 23.

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In 1921, in the year that Roy Edward Gehrke was born, in May, the Emergency Quota Act - or Emergency Immigration Act - was passed. The law restricted the number of immigrants to 357,000 per year. It also established an immigration quota in which only 3 per cent of the total population of any ethnic group already in the USA in 1910, could be admitted to America after 1921. Although the Act was supposed to be temporary, it stayed in effect until 1965.

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In 1930, by the time he was only 9 years old, as head of the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America, William Hays established a code of decency that outlined what was acceptable in films. The public - and government - had felt that films in the '20's had become increasingly risque and that the behavior of its stars was becoming scandalous. Laws were being passed. In response, the heads of the movie studios adopted a voluntary "code", hoping to head off legislation. The first part of the code prohibited "lowering the moral standards of those who see it", called for depictions of the "correct standards of life", and forbade a picture from showing any sort of ridicule towards a law or "creating sympathy for its violation". The second part dealt with particular behavior in film such as homosexuality, the use of specific curse words, and miscegenation.

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Roy Gehrke's Family Tree & Friends

Roy Gehrke's Family Tree

Otto Freidrich Herman Gehrke Nov 30, 1890 - Mar 25, 1979

Clara Bertha Wilhelmina (Brockmeier) Gehrke May 14, 1892 - Jun 11, 1968

Otto Herman Gehrke Jr Sep 10, 1923 - Jul 6, 1987

Clarence Lavern Gehrke born Mar 29, 1928

Roy Edward Gehrke Mar 3, 1921 - Sep 17, 1944

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Esther Bertha (Gehrke) Pine Jan 1, 1918 - Nov 18, 1957

Milton Clarence Gehrke born Jan 23, 1926

Richard Robert Gehrke Nov 30, 1932 - Jul 19, 2012

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