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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