Misc. Notes
On 1 April 1930 Vernon was 17, single, and lived with his mother and brothers Harry and Robert in Ashland, Wisconsin. He attended school and worked as a bakery helper. His father was born in Illinois and his mother in Wisconsin.
®9510 He had tuberculosis and was treated at Pureair Sanitorium in Bayfield, Wisconsin from 1938 to 1945, where he met Hazel Hebert who was also a patient. They married in a civil ceremony in Bessemer, Michigan on 17 April 1942 and in a Roman Catholic ceremony in Bayfield, Wisconsin on 7 August 1943.
®5404 After discharge from the San, he trained as a watchmaker in Milwaukee. They then lived in Ashland for many years where Vernon worked as a jeweler at E. J. Born’s jewelry store, starting on 3 December 1946.
®5404 In 1954 he was 5 feet 8 inches tall and weighed 134 pounds. On 5 September 1957 he was readmitted to Pureair Sanatorium with recurrent tuberculosis, and released in early 1958, cured by the new drug therapy that had become available. In August 1963 Vernon resigned from E. J. Born and moved the family to live at 1225 1/2 Mississippi Street in La Crosse. Wisconsin where he went to work for Russel Gile at Gile’s Jewelry. Later he worked for Howe’s Jewelers.
®5404He died in La Crosse, Wisconsin at age 64.
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Spouses
Birth9 Apr 1918, Roy’s Point, Bayfield County, Wisconsin, USA ®9528, ®9529, ®9517, ®9530, ®5374, ®5404, ®9531
Christen14 Apr 1918, Red Cliff, Bayfield County, Wisconsin, USA ®5404, ®9532
MemoSt. Francis Church, Rev. J. B. Meyer
MemoUniversity of Wisconsin Hospitals
Burial22 Nov 1969, La Crosse, La Crosse County, Wisconsin, USA ®5404
MemoWoodlawn Cemetery
Education10th grade at Bayfield High School ®5404
ReligionRoman Catholic ®5404
Cause of deathRespiratory Insufficiency and Tracheal Stenosis ®5404
Misc. Notes
She lived with her widowed mother and siblings, Wilfred, Clarence, and Leonard on Fourth Street in Bayfield, Wisconsin in 1930.
®3086 From 1934 to 1940 she worked as a maid in a Duluth, Minnesota, home. In 1940 she was found to have tuberculosis and was admitted on 22 March to Pureair Sanatorium in Bayfield, Wisconsin, where she met her future husband, Vern Ellickson, also a patient. Their daughter Karen was born while both were patients at Pureair Sanatorium. Hazel was discharged in 1946. On 9 September 1964 Hazel’s tuberculosis reactivated and she was admitted to Oak Forest Sanatorium in Onalaska, Wisconsin, being discharged as cured about 1 August 1965.
®5404 She underwent pulmonary surgery but died in the operating room at age 51 on 19 November 1969.
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Family ID10686
Marriage7 Aug 1943, Bayfield, Bayfield County, Wisconsin, USA ®5404
Marr MemoHoly Family Catholic Church Rev. Cyrinus Schneider