Individual 1789: Gerrett F. Rath

Individual Record 1789

Name} Rath, Gerrett Fredrick (Gary)

Family History} Hancock

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Race} White

Sex} Male

Birth: Date} Exa 8 Nov 1914

Place} Wheaton, Traverse, Minnesota

Marr.: Date} Cir 1938

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Death: Date} Exa 24 Sep 2005

Place} , , California

Burial: Date} Cir 28 Sep 2005

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Source 1}	888 = 1920 USA cen
Source 2}	889 = 1930 USA cen
Source 3}	1777 = 1940 USA cen
Source 4}	1187 = Military rec
Source 5}	845 = Military rec
Source 6}	871 = Address list
Source 7}	661 = Death record
Source 8}	891 = Letter
Source 9}	893 = Letters
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Parents: } George John Rath & Gusena (Sena) Maria Bertram
Relationship No.} 517

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Occupation 1} Sales clerk
Occupation 2} Merchant/storekeeper

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Spouses: Prime} ? , Edna M.
Total Number of} 1?

Notes: Gerrett Frederick Rath was born 8 Nov 1914 in Wheaton, Traverse, Minnesota. His parents were George Johanna (John) Rath and Gusena Maria (Sena) Bertram. He was the first of five children. In 1920 the family moved from Minnesota to Illinois. All four of Clarence's grandparents met each other in Illinois, and only then learned that they all immigrated to the U.S. from the same small region in Germany.

In the 1920 U.S. census, Gerrett F., 5, was living with his family in Peach Orchard, Ford, Illinois. His father, George G., 29, was farm laborer, his mother, Sena, 24, a housewife. His younger brother was Clarence H., 3. His family was renting their home. Three sisters were born in Illinois — Marie M., Roselyn Jean, and Shirley A. Roselyn died in the 1927 flu epidemic.

By 1929 Gerrett's parents had had enough of farming in the severe weather in Illinois, and were encouraged to join other family members in Petaluma, California. Petaluma was known for its chicken processing industries, and at one time the "Egg Capital of the World.

In the 1940 U.S. census, Gary T. Rath, 25, and his brother Clarence H. Rath, 23, were boarding with the Eiden family at 3169 22nd Street, in San Francisco, California. Both were clerks in a retail grocery store.

Gerrett Frederick Rath registered for the World War II draft on 16 Oct 1940 in San Francisco. He was living at 272 23rd St., San Francisco, and employed by Mrs. Leota Williams. He was described as 6'1". 170 lbs., with brown eyes, brown hair, and light brown complexion. He had a scar on the top of his head.

Gerrett enlisted in the U.S. Army on 21 Feb 1941. He was then single, 6' 1" tall, and weighed 155 pounds. He became a Master Sergeant and served in New Guinea from 1942 to 1945. He was in a group that received the Presidential Citation for the battle of the Bismarck Sea.

Gary went into the grocery business and owned several large supermarkets at various times in the Redwood City, California, area.

Gary lived in Morgan Hill, California, from 1993 through 1997. He resided from 1998, until the death of his wife Edna in 2000, in Sunnyvale. Gary died 24 Sep 2005 was probably in Sunnyvale, Santa Clara, California.

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Education: Grade} High school or Top 2 Degrees}

Military: Service} Army for the State of} United States

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