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Jerold "Jerry" Jasper Thomas
Jody Hane2020-06-20T15:02:59-05:00
- Name: Jerold "Jerry" Jasper Thomas
- Location of Birth: Braham, Minnesota
- Date of Birth: May 29, 1927
- Date of Death: August 7, 1989 (62 years old)
- Parents: Laura Thomas
- High School and Class: Henriette, Minnesota
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- Highest Rank: TEC 4 (Technical 4)
- Branch: Army
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World War II
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After serving during World War II, Jerry returned to Braham where he worked as a truck driver, salesman, and partsman for Dahlman Manufacturing Company.
He had been a resident of Grand Rapids, Minnesota since 1981.
Since 1983, he had been in partnership with Cecelia Foix, driving truck for Jerry Hammann Transportation as an owner-operator, retiring in 1988.
He was a member of the Loyal Order of Moose, Braham, Minnesota, and a life member of the Ponti-Peterson Veterans of Foreign Wars Post in Grand Rapids, Minnesota.
Surviving relatives include daughter Wendy Nelson; sons Dwayne, Curtis, Ronald and Ted; his mother Laura Thomas; sister Laura Marie Daley; brothers Robert, Alvin, Daniel, and Clayton; special friend Cecelia Foix; stepdaughters Linda Griffith, Vicki Benes, and Janice Heegard; stepsons William, Ronald, and Tracy Foix; ten grandchildren and sixteen step-grandchildren.
Jerry died in Grand Rapids, Minnesota and is buried in Harris Cemetery at Grand Rapids, Minnesota. (Plot 2.34.2.1)
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