Dwight P. Kunkle

Private Dwight P. “Ducky” Kunkle

Dwight Pershing Kunkle was born on December 30, 1918 in Vandergrift to Howard Madison Kunkle and Maude Belle Kunkle. Mr. Kunkle was one of five children Roy, Lee, Clyde and Floyd Kunkle and half brother, Lee Leeper.

Mr. Kunkle enlisted on May 20, 1943 at the age of 25 and became a Private in the Army

After the war, Mr. Kunkle married Jane Kunkle and together they had two children Gregory A. Kunkle and Edwin D. Kunkle. Mr. Kunkle was a molder at Wean United, Vandergrift, retiring in 1979.  

Dwight Kunkle died on April 30, 2002 at the age of 83.