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Grant Lee Reagh

Male 1919 - 1943  (23 years)


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  • Name Grant Lee Reagh  [1, 2
    Birth 29 Sep 1919  Cass City, Tuscola County, Michigan Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Gender Male 
    Death 25 Feb 1943  South Pacific Find all individuals with events at this location  [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 Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 26 Mar 1947, Branch, Lake County, Michigan Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 91 years) 
    Mother Alice L. Striffler,   b. 30 Mar 1889, Cass City, Tuscola County, Michigan Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 3 Jan 1966, Eustis, Lake County, Florida Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 76 years) 
    Marriage 1906  Cass City, Tuscola County, Michigan Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F1612  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBirth - 29 Sep 1919 - Cass City, Tuscola County, Michigan Link to Google Earth
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  • Sources 
    1. [S492] Peck, Edward Arthur THE TEN BENKELMANS WHO EMIGRATED TO AMERICA Ca. 1850s AND CERTAIN OF THEIR DESCENDANTS, 1982.

    2. [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).

    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).