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Kermit "Bud" Joseph Akre
Lilah Crowe2023-02-01T11:51:01-06:00
- Name: Kermit "Bud" Joseph Akre
- Location of Birth: Grand Rapids, Minnesota
- Date of Birth: August 20, 1918
- Date of Death: May 10, 1979
- Parents: Joseph Akre and Irene (Hamilton) Akre
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- Branch: Navy
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World War II
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Kermit "Bud" Joseph Akre married Virginia (Vale) Erickson (aka Dolly) on September 28, 1940 and helped raise her children Ben and Vail Petis. They had a son, Duane Kermit Akre. He later married Myrtle Gunvor Sorgren-Morken. Myrtle had two children-Carl Bradley and Tobilyn Marita Morken.
Bud worked at Blandin Paper Company in Grand Rapids, Minnesota.
Buried in Harris Cemetery at Grand Rapids, Minnesota. (Plot 2.30.3.8)
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