Military Beach Kids

In the last blog I wrote about Charles Beach & Gertrude Peck - they had 2 sons - Leon & Marion.
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Leon Henry Beach married Ruth Elizabeth Space, the daughter of Zepheniah A Space & Emma N Miller. Leon was a high school teacher as Saratoga Springs High School and while he enlisted, I don't believe he got called up.

courtesy of Joni Smith - Find A Grave

Leon & Ruth had 2 son who did serve - Leon Jr & Richard.

Leon Henry Beach Jr married Gladys May Hammond but it appears they divorced and had no children. Leon rose was a Corporal in the US Army during WWII

courtesy of Carol Walker - Find A Grave

Richard Space Beach married Mary Griffin Sanderson, the daughter of Rev Ernest Sanderson & Ruth Griffin and they had 3 children - Nancy, Edward, & Cynthia. Richard was a Colonel in the US Army during WWII

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Marion Wilbur Beach married Lillian May Wells, the daughter of Albert Wells & Emma Waldorf and they had one daughter Gladys. Like his brother, he enlisted as well and I am not sure he was ever called up either.
 
Syracuse Herald, 4 Apr 1946
Marion Beach Dies In St Paul
Wolcott - Marion Beach, father of Mrs George Hanneman, and a native of Wolcott, died Sunday in St Paul, Minn, of rheumatic heart disease. A graduate of Wolcott High School in the Class of 1906, Mr Beach was popular here in his younger days when he played first base on the Wolcott ball team. Since 1913 he had resided in St Paul. Receiving word that he was failing, Mr and Mrs Hanneman left Wolcott Saturday for St Paul, but death occurred before they arrived. They returned to Wolcott yesterday, accompanied by Mrs Beach, the widow. Funeral services will take place at 2 pm today in the Robertson funeral rooms, with the Rev George Wolf officiating. Burial in Glenside Cemetery. Surviving, besides his wife, Mrs Lillian Wells Beach, and his daughter, Mrs Hanneman of Wolcott, [and] a brother, Leon Beach, of Saratoga Springs.