Family

Early Life

Mar. 5, 1924 Born

Oct. 14, 1924 Baptized

July 9, 1926 Death of brother, Kenneth within days of his 6th birthday

Mar. 15, 1941 Sister, Betty, married Robert E. Delafield

June, 1942 Bud graduated from State College High School

Fall of 1942 Entered Penn State as a journalism major; completed one semester

Tried to enlist in Pittsburgh but was missing one paper

Waited to be drafted and then volunteered to replace a man who was a new father

Enlisted at Altoona, PA (Service Number 33568907)

Bud wanted to write and asked his mother to keep a scrapbook of his letters. She did so as as a result we have most of the letters he wrote and many of the letters his mother sent him as well as from several other people.