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Calvary Cemetery records- Block 24, Section 2, Row 27, Lot 1, Level 1, Burial ID 327, funeral home- Froeming & Sons
Wisconsin State Census 1905, 2nd precinct, 5th ward, Milwaukee
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Calvary Cemetery- Block 15, Section 2, Row 17, Lot 2, Level 1, Burial ID 26025, Funeral home=Brett
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List of ranks : Seaman recruit 4/16/1958
Seaman apprentice 7/1/1958
Seaman 4/16/59
Torpedo mans Mate Third Class 12/16/1959
Torpedo Mans Mate Second Class 5/16/1961
Torpedo Mans Mate First Class 5/16/1963
Chief Torpedo Man 10/25/1970
Senior Chief Torpedo Man 11/16/1973
Master Chief Torpedo Man 12/16/1976
Awards : - Bronze Star Medal with Combat V & 1 Gold Star (gold star in lieu of second medal) 2/6/1979
- Purple Heart Medal (Wounded 5/13/1969 at 9:30PM in the Republic of Vietnam, coordinates
WS030784, eight miles southwest of Chau Doc on the Vinh Te Canal) minor shrapnel wound
in right elbow
- Navy Commendation Medal with Combat V & Gold Star [Gold Star in lieu of second medal]
10/25/1970 & 2/6/1970
- Navy Achievement Medal 12/30/1988
- Combat Action Ribbon 3/1/1969
- Navy Unit Commendation 5/10/1965 - 3/28/1973
- Meritorious Unit Commendation 4/1/1978 - 12/1/1978
- Navy Good Conduct Medal (7 awards) 4/15/1961; 7/9/1965; 7/9/1969, 7/9/1973, 7/9/1977,
7/9/1981, 7/9/1985
- National Defense Medal 1968
- Vietnam Service Medal (3) 1969
- Republic of Vietnam Gallantry Cross with Palm Unit Citation 11/28, 1968 - 11/21/1970
- Republic of Vietnam Civic Action Unit Citation 1/1/1965 - 3/28, 1973
- Vietnam Campaign Medal with Device 1969
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Lawrence may have met Elsie in Rhode Island where he went to school for mechanics degree.
Lawrence had a World War I registraton card. Other information on the card was that he had a wife and child.It had to have been Elsie and Harold Robert.
Bridgeport Telegram 1/17/1968 Lawrence Quinlisk Sr. Obituary
Private services for Lawrence Quinlisk, Sr., 78, of 373 Noble Ave., former State Trade School instructor, who died Tuesday in his home, will take place tomorrow in the Louis A. Abriola and Son funeral home, 426 East Washington Ave. The Rev. John W. Olson, pastor of the Park Street Congregational Church, will officiate. Burial will be a the convenience of the family.
Born in Gardner, Mass., Mr. Quinlisk had been a resident of Bridgeport many years. He was an instructor at the State Trade school on Kossuth street before it became the Bullard Havens Regional vocational training school.
Survivors are his wife, Mrs. Elsie Quinlisk, three sons, Harold Quinlisk of Bridgeport, Raymond Quinlisk of Liberty, N.Y., and Lawrence Quinlisk Jr. of Detroit, Michigan; six daughters, Mrs. Marie Rentz of Easton, Mrs. Arlyne Luckner of Winter Haven, Fla., Mrs. Laura Fields and Mrs. Claire Korn both of Bridgeport, Mrs. Bertha Johnston of Riverside, Calif., Mrs. June Gorham of Woodbury; two sisters, Mrs. Margaret Patriquin of Gardner, Mass., and Mrs. Laura McMurray of Fitchburg, Mass., 20 grandchildren, fice great grandchildren, and several nieces and nephews.
Notes on his first marriage: According to the great grand daughter of Lawrence, after having Homer, his wife Ida died two weeks after she gave birth. Lawrence gave Homer to Ida's family to raise and he left. I don't know if he went to New York or to Connecticut.
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Trace Lawrence's travels between having Homer and meeting and marrying Elsie Gravelin. Where was he when he had his accident in New York City? Was it around the time Elsie came to visit and had Harold in New York city.
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When she died she was living in the Milford Heights Nursing Home.
Bridgeport Post 8/17/1977 Mrs. Lawrence Quinlisk Obituary
Private services and burial for Mrs. Elsie Gravlin Quinlisk, of 373 Noble Avenue, widow of Lawrence Quinlisk, who died Tuesday in Milford Heights nursing home, will take place Thursday.
Mrs. Quinlisk was born in Providenced, R.I., and was a Bridgeport resident for 50 years.
Survivors include three sons, Harold Quinlisk of Milford, Raymond Quinlisk of Swan Lake, N.Y., And Lawrence Quinlisk of Detroit, Michigan, six daughters, Mrs. Marie Rentz of Easton, Mrs. Arlyne Luckner of St. Petersburg, Fla., Mrs. Berta Johnston of Kingman, Ariz., Mrs. June Gorham of Woodbury, and Mrs. Claire Korn and Mrs. Laura Fields, both of Milfod; a brother, Leo Gravlin, of Bridgeport; 17 grandchildren and 18 great grandchildren.