Gordon Elton KREIDER ⁴

  General Notes:

Gordon's obituary is available via email request
Gordon Elton was known to the kids in the family as "Ziggs" or "Red". He was called Red because he had very red hair. It is unknown why he was called Ziggs.

  Noted events in his life were:

• Residence, 3 Jan 1920, Northboro, Page County, Iowa 51647. ⁷ living with his parents.

• Residence, 1930, Louisville, Cass County, Nebraska, USA. ³⁹

• Occupation, 1930, Louisville, Cass County, Nebraska, USA. ³⁹ as a laborer in a cement plant.

• Military Service: U S Army; World War II, 29 May 1944, Fort Leavenworth National Cemetery; Fort Leavenworth, Leavenworth County, Kansas, USA. ^33,128 U S Army; World War II Enlistment:
Name: Gordon E Kreider
Birth Year: 1911
Race: White, citizen
Nativity State or Country: Arkansas
State: Panama Canal Zone
Enlistment Date: 29 May 1944
Enlistment State: Kansas
Enlistment City: Fort Levenworth
Branch: No branch assignment
Branch Code: No branch assignment
Grade: Private Grade Code: Private
Term of Enlistment: Enlistment for the duration of the War or other emergency, plus six months, subject to the discretion of the President or otherwise according to law
Component: Selectees (Enlisted Men)
Source: Civil Life
Education: 1 year of high school
Civil Occupation: Dispatcher Clerk (Crew) or Policeman or Investigator (Detective. ) or Criminal Identification Laboratory Technician or Vice Squad Patrolman or Traffic Patrolman
Marital Status: Married
Height: 00
Weight: 200

• Occupation: Driver, 1955, Omaha, Douglas County, Nebraska, USA. ⁵³ O&CBSERyCo.: Driver

• Residence: 3321 Manderson, 1955, Omaha, Douglas County, Nebraska, USA. ⁵³ 3321 Manderson Street.
Legal Description: DRUID HILL ADD LOT 4 BLOCK 14 50 X 128
Parcel Size: Acres: 0.14 Sq. Ft.: 6400

• Residence, 20 Jul 1960, Omaha, Douglas County, Nebraska, USA. ¹²⁶

• Cemetery: Graceland Park Cemetery; Lot 278, Section 14, 5 Mar 1986, Omaha, Douglas County, Nebraska, USA. ³³ Graceland Park Cemetery, Lot 278, Section 14. This grave is in the middle of a large, flat area with no land marks. These instructions should get you close: Locate this grave by taking the first left past the office. Look on the left side of the road for a tombstones marked "Culton" and "Pakulat". Park there. Cross the road to the west. Find Wendell Whitehill's grave which is the 3rd stone from the road. From the Whitehill grave count 6 rows of tombstones towards the west. You should be near a lone evergreen tree. This grave is approximately 10 feet south of the tree.

Gordon married Mary Jane RODGERS, daughter of Elton I. RODGERS and Blanch V. COLLINS, 1 Aug 1937 in Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie County, Iowa, USA.³² (Mary Jane RODGERS was born 13 Oct 1897 in Missouri,^10,33,129 died 20 Sep 1986 in Omaha, Douglas County, Nebraska, USA ¹⁰ and was buried in 1986 in Graceland Park Cemetery; Omaha, Douglas County, Nebraska, USA ²¹.)