John Elmer Brose

1920 - 1991  (71 years)

• Name	John Elmer Brose
  Birth	1 Jan 1920	Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
  Gender	Male
  Death	19 Jun 1991	USA
  Burial	Mount Royal Cemetery, Glenshaw, Pennsylvania, USA
  Person ID	I0401	Wright and Savill
  Last Modified	24 Jan 2013

  
  

  Father	Edward Raymond Brose           b. 29 Sep 1894, USA           d. 14 Dec 1964, Pennsylvania, USA (Age 70 years)
  Mother	Isabella Mary Wright           b. 6 Oct 1892, Kensal Green, London           d. 27 Nov 1981, Pennsylvania, USA (Age 89 years)
  Marriage	22 Jun 1917
  Family ID	F142	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

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  		Birth - 1 Jan 1920 - Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA Death - 19 Jun 1991 - USA Burial - - Mount Royal Cemetery, Glenshaw, Pennsylvania, USA  = Link to Google Earth
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• Photos » Slide Show		Wrights on the Farm Left to right: John Elmer Brose, Grace Douglas (Grace Evelyn Wright's daughter), Elmer Douglas (called "Buddy") is the smallest boy, Robert Wright and Alice Sarah Jacobs Wright in the center back, next to Alice is Grace Evelyn Wright then next to her is Isabella Mary Wright. The two smaller girls in flowered dresses are Alice and Olive Allmendinger - the Allmendingers were friends of the family and at one point Grace Douglas worked for the Allmendinger family as a maid
  		John Elmer Brose Photo taken in England
  		John Elmer Brose
  		John Elmer Brose.
  		John Elmer Brose Taken at Camp Atterberry in 1942.
  		John Elmer Brose and Isabella Mary Wright. Taken in 1940.

  
  

  Documents

  Birth Certificate of John Elmer Brose. Joyce says "You'll note that the name is blank on the birth certificate. The story I heard is that my grandmother couldn't decide whether to name him Elmer John or John Elmer, so they left it blank until she could decide. According to family lore, she didn't make up her mind on that until he was about 10 years old, when she settled on John Elmer. That is why his childhood friends always called him Elmer and later friends called him John. He was also called Bud by his mother and most of his cousins. My dad called him Watson when they were young - a result of playing at being Sherlock Holmes and Watson - and this is the name my mother called him. Later, after WWII, my dad changed to calling him Deek (short for Deacon, since John had held the post of deacon in the local VFW - Veterans of Foreign Wars)."

  
  

• Notes

  Known from Steven Bush's family tree.