Alaska Highway. Company B. Born: 12 November 1917, Zelienople, Butler County, PA. Died: 19 January 2002, Burlington, Almance County, NC. Enlisted: 13 November 1941, Ft. Niagara, NY and discharged 22 January 1946.
Education: Graduate of Carnegie Institute of Technology with degree in Mechanical Engineering. His father was Henry Augustus Peter Grabman (1884-1945), a plumber. His mother was Mary Matilda Burr (1886-1939), a public school teacher.
He married Lieutenant Mary Jeanne Britt (1919-2014), an officer in the Women’s Auxiliary Corps, on 17 August 1945 in Ann Arbor, MI. She was a graduate of Carnegie Institute of Technology.
She completed courses in Military Government at University of Virginia before her marriage. She married while attending the Civil Affairs Training School at the University of Michigan in 1945. After her marriage, her next assignment was to report to Civil Affairs Staging Area in Monterey, California for duty in the Pacific.
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