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  2. Ward Holmes: Birth: 5 JAN 1924 in Milwaukee Wisconsin. Death: 4 JUL 1944 in European theater WWII


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1. Title:   Divorce Decree/Lorch

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a. Note:   N2 Originally left school in the 9th grade to help support her family. Later, she went to the Cream City Secretarial School, where she learned shorthand and typing. She then worked for Reimers Photographic Supplies, where she met Harold Reimers.
 She fell in love with Herman Reimers, who died (? of appenditis?) before they were married. She then married an older man, Albert Holmes, and had two children. Albert died of tertiary syphilis in 1927.
 She remarried, to Ray Lorch, in 1930. During a separation, she enlisted in the WACS and was in service from September 29 1943 to Nov. 1 1945.
 Nat travelled extensively - in 1948, she sailed from NYC on the Queen Elizabeth for a European tour to “observe the sociological aspects of the internaional situation, and embody the material into a thesis for (her) master’s degree” (from the University of Wisconsin under the GI Bill). At the same time, she visited her son, Ward’s, grave in Belgium. She later had the remains shipped back and he was reburied in Milwaukee. After a nasty divorce from Ray Lorch, she taught in Milwaukee Public Schools after she obtained her teacher’s certificate in 1960, until her 70’s. (Years before, in the ‘30’s, she had set up a German program in the Wawatosa elementary schools. After WWII, the program was discontinued.)
 She was diagnosed with breast CA in her 70’s, recovered from that, and died of Alzheimer’s Disease at the age of 97 in Madison Wisconsin, at the same nursing home that her brother Arthur did, of the same disease. Her sister-in-law, Doris, cared for them both.
b. Note:   Alzheimer’s


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