Joel Glenn Newkirk (1924-1983)

Last Updated: 6 November 2021

Birth: 23 June 1924
Taft, Kern, California

Death:  30 September 1983
Santa Ana, Orange, California

Burial: Forest Lawn Memorial Park
Cypress, Orange County, California

PID: LTLJ-ZBT
Find-a-Grave #: 94540232

Nickname: Unknown

Parents:
• Benjamin Oral Newkirk (1900–1983)
• Beulah Belle Pugh (1902–1984)

Siblings:
• Leroy Benjamin Newkirk (1925–2003)

Married:
• Lois Anne Fox (1925–2010) on 26 November 1944 in Yuma, Yuma, Arizona

Children:
• Joellen Newkirk (1946–2009)

Veteran of: World War II

Branch of Service: US Navy
Rank: Fireman Third Class
Occupational Specialty:  Unknown
Dates of Service:  Enlisted: 9 Aug 1941
Ships: USS Deimos (AK-78), USS Bremerton (CA-130)

Note from Ariel Newkirk (grand nephew) –

Joined the CCC after running away from home at 13, joined the Navy at 16 with forged documents, was present at Pearl Harbor (his first sunken ship), met up with his younger brother Leroy by accident while piloting an inter island transport boat in the Pacific. Survived a number of shipwrecks.

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