Grant Lee Reagh

1919 - 1943  (23 years)

• Name	Grant Lee Reagh  [1, 2]
  Birth	29 Sep 1919	Cass City, Tuscola County, Michigan   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Death	25 Feb 1943	South Pacific   [1, 3]
  Notes	Cass City Chronicle October 6, 1933 Local Happenings, Page Four Thursday, September 29, was named as the date for the celebration of four birthdays in the Striffler and Kaiser families and a dinner was served at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Solomon Striffler on Leach street. The birthdays of Mrs. Striffler, Mrs. G.E. Krapf and Grant Reagh, all of Cass City, and W.R. Kaiser of Detroit all occur within a week. Members of all four families were present at dinner. The 1941 issue of the Striffler-Benkelman Broadcast showed that Corp. Grant Reagh, formerly of Selfridge Field, Michigan, had passed the flying cadet examination, and was being sent to school in Muskogee, Oklahoma. Later issues reported him as Missing in Action in the South Pacific. Cass City Chronicle Friday April 2, 1943 Lt. Grant Reagh is Reported Missing Mr. and Mrs. Ira Reagh of Branch, former Cass City residents, have received word that their son, Lt. Grant Reagh, has been Missing in Action since February 25. Grant, who is 23 years old, is a graduate of Cass City High School, having finished his studies here with the Class of 1937. He spent one year at Central State College at Mt. Pleasant and then enlisted in the Air Corps. His parents received a letter from him dated February 24. The Striffler-Benkelman Broadcast, Vol. 7, September 4, 1944, noted that Grant had been MIA since February, 1943 in the So. Pacific Area, and that he was awarded the Silver Star and the Air Force Medal. The presentation was made to his father, Ira Reagh, August 26, 1944 at Selfridge Field.
  Person ID	I11471	Strong Family Tree
  Last Modified	14 Feb 2021

  
  

  Father	Ira Roy Reagh,   b. 22 Aug 1855, Sanilac County, Michigan d. 26 Mar 1947, Branch, Lake County, Michigan (Age 91 years)
  Mother	Alice L. Striffler,   b. 30 Mar 1889, Cass City, Tuscola County, Michigan d. 3 Jan 1966, Eustis, Lake County, Florida (Age 76 years)
  Marriage	1906	Cass City, Tuscola County, Michigan
  Family ID	F1612	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map		Birth - 29 Sep 1919 - Cass City, Tuscola County, Michigan Death - 25 Feb 1943 - South Pacific  = Link to Google Earth
  Pin Legend	: Address       : Location       : City/Town       : County/Shire       : State/Province       : Country       : Not Set

  
  

• Sources

  [S492] Peck, Edward Arthur THE TEN BENKELMANS WHO EMIGRATED TO AMERICA Ca. 1850s AND CERTAIN OF THEIR DESCENDANTS, 1982. [S653] Cass City Chronicle, P.O. Box 115, Cass City, Michigan 48726, Published continously since 1899, archived from 1899 through 2005 at http://newspapers.rawson.lib.mi.us/chronicle/, Friday, April 4, 1947 (Reliability: 3). [S595] Striffler-Benkelman Broadcast, (Family Publication, published sporadically to record family milestones in connection with the annual Striffler-Benkelman Family Reunions, with Vol. 1, Number 1, published Sept. 7, 1936. Issues on file at the Rawson Memorial Library in Cass City, Michigan include Vol. 5 (1941), Vol. 7 (1944) and Volumes 8 (1945) through Vol. 28 (1968). Issues published from 1961 through 1964 were not assigned volume numbers, and 1963 appears to be missing. Xeroxes of the existing issues were also made by Melinda McLemore Strong in 2007. According to a article published by the Cass City Chronicle on August 6, 1981, commemorating the Fiftieth and Final Striffler-Benkelman Reunion, the final issue of the STRIFFLER-BENKELMAN BROADCAST appears to have been Volume 28, published in 1968.), Volume 7, September 4, 1944 (Reliability: 3).