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Family
Marriage: Children:
  1. Elizabeth Ann Bruggeman: Birth: 12 Dec 1951. Death: 1981

  2. Person Not Viewable

  3. Person Not Viewable

  4. Andrew William Bruggeman: Birth: 13 Nov 1966. Death: 27 Apr 2014 in Cincinnati, OH


Sources
1. Title:   GEDCOM File : BRUGGE~1.ged
Source:   S-2072042597
Author:   Cathy (Bruggeman) Demarco ([email protected]@aol.com)
2. Title:   Anne (Bruggeman) Fritz interview
Source:   S-2072042563
3. Title:   John Harnis Bruggeman obituary
Page:   pg #8, column #8
Source:   S-2072042596
Publication:   Fremont, OH: The Fremont News-Messenger, 11 May 1972
4. Title:   Maggie (Bruggeman) Schrand Biederman correspondance
Source:   S-2072042595

Notes
a. Note:   If you remember, my son Adam was working on a school geneology project around the same time you were working on yours, and I had to provide him with information about my dad. My dad served in the Navy in WWII. He was initially stationed in a desert (don't know where) and later on, they asked for volunteers for a new assignment and he was very glad to get away from there. They put him on a ship in the Pacific, where he trained to be a frogman. His job was to disarm bombs that the Japanese had planted on the ocean floor. The bombs had very long spikes that came out from the center, and if a ship were to brush up against them, it would explode. They had to swim between the spikes to disarm them. I was told that at some point, he saw something or someone having problems with their scuba gear, so he refused to use it. He would hold his breath and dive down to do his work. This was a very dangerous job. My mom said that before he joined the Navy, he either was thinking about or had joined the seminary, so I guess at one point he had considered becoming a priest. Hope this helps. Thanks again for your help and I'll send you some pictures as soon as I get them. Maggie Does your grandmother talk much of her brother Johnny? My mother Margaret remembers him well. Johnny bought my mother her first bike. They keptthat bike in the Clyde farmhouse garage (probably just a shed) for years and years. She loved that bike -- it was blue and yellow with a basket shesays. She said Johnny was a kind, nice kid, and she was very sad when he diesat a relatively young age (45 or so, if I'm not mistaken). I'm not sure but didn't John and Ruth live in Tiffin, OH? Tom


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