John Roses

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His registration records for the World War I Draft showed him as exempt from the draft, as a subject of Spain. His employer was the Spanish Vice Counsul in Pensacola, FL, where he worked as a clerk. His location of birth was shown as Masnou, Barcelona, Spain. He was listed as caucasian, of medium build, slender with brown eyes and black hair.

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Census Listings:

1920 Census
Florida, Escambia County, Pensacola, Precinct 30
SD 3, ED 37 Sheet 5B
Enumerated 6 January 1920
West Jordan St, House Number 17
88-94
Roses, John Head M W 28 M 1912 Al Spain Spainish Spain Spainish Spain Spainish Truck Driver Coffee Co
Roses, Maud Wf F W 23 M Florida Iowa Iowa
Roses, Pedro 1 Fl Spain Fl
Regan, Riley Lodger M W 28 S Florida US Alabama Mechanic Garage Automotive

John married Maud M. Everhart before 1918. Maud (daughter of William Lincoln Everhart and Glencora "Cora" Brenton) was born on 15 Nov 1896 in Florida; died on 9 Sep 1972 in Okaloosa County, Florida; was buried in Saint John's Cemetery, Pensacola, Escambia County, Florida. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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(Research):Ancestry.com. U.S., World War II Army Enlistment Records, 1938-1946 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2005. show he enlisted on 5 Aug 1940 in Montgomery, Alabama for Enlistment for the Panama Canal Department, Medical Department - For Enlisted Men of the Medical Department (includes Enlisted Men of the Medical Department on Duty with the Dental Corps). He had attended two years of high school, and his civil occupation was that of an office clerk. He was single, 67 inches tall and weighed 157 pounds.

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She married a NORRIS.

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Obituary, copied from FindAGrave:

Vincent William Roses was born September 23, 1923 in Pensacola, Florida to John P. Roses, and Maude Everhart Roses, lived in Pensacola expect in the US Army 1940-1945 worldwide served in 2nd Armored Division, 48th Armored Medical Batt. Nov. 30, 1940 '96 July 31, 1945.

Mr. Roses was preceded in death by, Wife of 57 years, Maria Albertina Ponsen Roses, Parents and Grand Parents, Brother Pedro, Sister Rosemary Norris, many uncles, aunts and cousins.

Mr. Roses was a thirty five years employee of L&N Railroad and a lifelong member of St. Stephen Roman Catholic Church.

He is survived by a daughter Sandra Roses Milligan (Jim Milligan) Colorado Springs, CO., granddaughter Tracy Kirchharr, and dear friend Mickey Brown. He enlisted in the US Army November30th, 1940 served honorably till July 31, 1945 served at Forty Benning GA., landed at Casablanca North Africa December 24 1942, when he left there went to Tidworth England went to France Normandy June 1944, thru France, Belgium, Holland, and Germany, was at the battle of the Bugle, from there back to Holland wound up at the Elbe River in Germany, where they were stopped to wait for the Russians. While in Holland he met Maria Ponsen, fell in love and after the battle of the Bulge he returned to Holland to marry her on February 6, 1945, a marriage that lasted 57 years, until she died on November 29,2002.

Services will be Thursday 9:30 a.m. at Waters & Hibbert Funeral Home. Interment will be at Barrancas National Cemetery, Pensacola, Florida.
Waters & Hibbert 11/14/2013

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Obituary

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John Roses Jr., age 88, was born on Nov. 9, 1925, in Pensacola, Fla. and passed away on Oct. 22, 2014. He moved to Fort Walton Beach, Fla. in 1969 after retiring from the Air Force. He served 23 1/2 years. John is preceded in death by his wife of 56 years, Eden Bernice Roses. He is survived by his four children, Bob Roses, Bill Roses, Barbara Workman and Debrah Betterelli; eight grandchildren; and 18 great-grandchildren.

A graveside service will be held on Saturday, Oct. 25, 2014, at 1 p.m. at Beal Memorial Cemetery.

Expressions of sympathy may be viewed or submitted online at www.McLaughlinMortuary.com.

Published Online in Northwest Florida Daily News on Oct. 24, 2014

John married Edna Berniece McLemore on 9 Jan 1945 in Escambia County, Florida. Edna (daughter of Carl Edward McLemore and Maudie Dee Estes) was born on 2 Oct 1927 in Carbon Hill, Fayette County, Alabama; died on 8 Feb 2001 in Fort Walton Beach, Okaloosa County, Florida; was buried in Beal Memorial Cemetery, Fort Walton Beach, Okaloosa County, Florida. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]