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Note: Emil was inducted into Military Service on 10/31/42, and discharged on 12/12/45. Married Louise on May 23, 1945, during a 2-week leave from World War II. Hobbies included fishing, hunting (small game: rabbits and squirrels), and baseball (Emil played on a semi-pro league team in Manchester, teammates with Hank Arft, later drafted by the St. Louis Browns, and he also managed the Little League teams his sons Steven and Ronald played on as children growing up in the St. Louis area). Emil worked for 30 years for McDonnell-Douglas Electronics Corp. as a Contract Estimator. He received his Bachelor's Degree from Washington University in St. Louis in 1962 (he also attended classes at St. Louis University in the late '40s/early '50s). Emil loved trees, and would always plant dozens of them in every yard of every house he ever owned. And he recycled EVERYTHING (glass, paper, plastic, aluminum, tin cans, you name it!), decades before this was a common practice.
Emil died of a blood infection as a result of an abscessed tooth. He is buried at Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery in St. Louis, Mo.
Emil's page on the World War II Memorial website: http://www.wwiimemorial.com/registry/search/pframe.asp?HonoreeID=2089866&popcount=1&tcount=1
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