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.