SGT US MARINE CORPS
WORLD WAR II, KOREA
Born in NYC to Alfred Sr & Helen M Acker. When he was 7 his parents contracted tuberculosis and were sent to a treatment facility. He and his brother (Arthur, age 4) and sister (Julia, age 2) were sent to a foundling home where they remained in foster care until he was 14 and went looking for his mother, who was living alone in a flat in the Bronx. He enlisted in the USMC in 1941 and served with the First Marine Division (The Old Breed) in the Pacific campaign (Guadalcanal, Cape Gloucester, & Palalu Isle). He sustained shrapnel wounds to his head and neck and contracted Malaria, which would ultimately be the contributing cause of his death from a coronary event. It was during his convalescence and subsequent assignment at Marine Barracks USN Yard, NYC, where he met his future wife, USN S L. Lorana Hunnicutt. They married after a brief courtship and were subsequently mustered out at the end of the war (1945) at which time they moved to the hill country in TX, where he worked as a cabinet maker until after the birth of their two daughters. But they found TX didn't provide enough income to support a family so they returned to NY, where he was a "super" for an apartment building while he went to school for aeronautic engineering. Lorana completed cosmetology school and worked at an upscale shop in Times Square. They returned to TX briefly, but he re-enlisted in 1950 and was stationed at MCAS El Toro CA where he served in Intelligence as a Scout observer and draftsman, topographer. Upon his discharge in 1951 he found work with Douglas Aircraft in Torrance, where he would go on to lead the team that developed & built the F4D Skyray for the Marine Corps. He and Lorana made a comfortable life, first in Manhattan Beach, then Garden Grove/Anaheim and he died unexpectedly during an annual routine checkup and was scheduled for removal of an ulcer. He sustained two sudden successive heart events that claimed his life at the age of 33, with Lorana at his side. They had been married 12 years and had two daughters, ages 9 & 11. His wife and future son-in-law (married to Helen) share his burial site.
Children: Helen L, Muriel E ("Mona")
WORLD WAR II, KOREA
Born in NYC to Alfred Sr & Helen M Acker. When he was 7 his parents contracted tuberculosis and were sent to a treatment facility. He and his brother (Arthur, age 4) and sister (Julia, age 2) were sent to a foundling home where they remained in foster care until he was 14 and went looking for his mother, who was living alone in a flat in the Bronx. He enlisted in the USMC in 1941 and served with the First Marine Division (The Old Breed) in the Pacific campaign (Guadalcanal, Cape Gloucester, & Palalu Isle). He sustained shrapnel wounds to his head and neck and contracted Malaria, which would ultimately be the contributing cause of his death from a coronary event. It was during his convalescence and subsequent assignment at Marine Barracks USN Yard, NYC, where he met his future wife, USN S L. Lorana Hunnicutt. They married after a brief courtship and were subsequently mustered out at the end of the war (1945) at which time they moved to the hill country in TX, where he worked as a cabinet maker until after the birth of their two daughters. But they found TX didn't provide enough income to support a family so they returned to NY, where he was a "super" for an apartment building while he went to school for aeronautic engineering. Lorana completed cosmetology school and worked at an upscale shop in Times Square. They returned to TX briefly, but he re-enlisted in 1950 and was stationed at MCAS El Toro CA where he served in Intelligence as a Scout observer and draftsman, topographer. Upon his discharge in 1951 he found work with Douglas Aircraft in Torrance, where he would go on to lead the team that developed & built the F4D Skyray for the Marine Corps. He and Lorana made a comfortable life, first in Manhattan Beach, then Garden Grove/Anaheim and he died unexpectedly during an annual routine checkup and was scheduled for removal of an ulcer. He sustained two sudden successive heart events that claimed his life at the age of 33, with Lorana at his side. They had been married 12 years and had two daughters, ages 9 & 11. His wife and future son-in-law (married to Helen) share his burial site.
Children: Helen L, Muriel E ("Mona")
SGT US MARINE CORPS
WORLD WAR II, KOREA
Born in NYC to Alfred Sr & Helen M Acker. When he was 7 his parents contracted tuberculosis and were sent to a treatment facility. He and his brother (Arthur, age 4) and sister (Julia, age 2) were sent to a foundling home where they remained in foster care until he was 14 and went looking for his mother, who was living alone in a flat in the Bronx. He enlisted in the USMC in 1941 and served with the First Marine Division (The Old Breed) in the Pacific campaign (Guadalcanal, Cape Gloucester, & Palalu Isle). He sustained shrapnel wounds to his head and neck and contracted Malaria, which would ultimately be the contributing cause of his death from a coronary event. It was during his convalescence and subsequent assignment at Marine Barracks USN Yard, NYC, where he met his future wife, USN S L. Lorana Hunnicutt. They married after a brief courtship and were subsequently mustered out at the end of the war (1945) at which time they moved to the hill country in TX, where he worked as a cabinet maker until after the birth of their two daughters. But they found TX didn't provide enough income to support a family so they returned to NY, where he was a "super" for an apartment building while he went to school for aeronautic engineering. Lorana completed cosmetology school and worked at an upscale shop in Times Square. They returned to TX briefly, but he re-enlisted in 1950 and was stationed at MCAS El Toro CA where he served in Intelligence as a Scout observer and draftsman, topographer. Upon his discharge in 1951 he found work with Douglas Aircraft in Torrance, where he would go on to lead the team that developed & built the F4D Skyray for the Marine Corps. He and Lorana made a comfortable life, first in Manhattan Beach, then Garden Grove/Anaheim and he died unexpectedly during an annual routine checkup and was scheduled for removal of an ulcer. He sustained two sudden successive heart events that claimed his life at the age of 33, with Lorana at his side. They had been married 12 years and had two daughters, ages 9 & 11. His wife and future son-in-law (married to Helen) share his burial site.
Children: Helen L, Muriel E ("Mona")
WORLD WAR II, KOREA
Born in NYC to Alfred Sr & Helen M Acker. When he was 7 his parents contracted tuberculosis and were sent to a treatment facility. He and his brother (Arthur, age 4) and sister (Julia, age 2) were sent to a foundling home where they remained in foster care until he was 14 and went looking for his mother, who was living alone in a flat in the Bronx. He enlisted in the USMC in 1941 and served with the First Marine Division (The Old Breed) in the Pacific campaign (Guadalcanal, Cape Gloucester, & Palalu Isle). He sustained shrapnel wounds to his head and neck and contracted Malaria, which would ultimately be the contributing cause of his death from a coronary event. It was during his convalescence and subsequent assignment at Marine Barracks USN Yard, NYC, where he met his future wife, USN S L. Lorana Hunnicutt. They married after a brief courtship and were subsequently mustered out at the end of the war (1945) at which time they moved to the hill country in TX, where he worked as a cabinet maker until after the birth of their two daughters. But they found TX didn't provide enough income to support a family so they returned to NY, where he was a "super" for an apartment building while he went to school for aeronautic engineering. Lorana completed cosmetology school and worked at an upscale shop in Times Square. They returned to TX briefly, but he re-enlisted in 1950 and was stationed at MCAS El Toro CA where he served in Intelligence as a Scout observer and draftsman, topographer. Upon his discharge in 1951 he found work with Douglas Aircraft in Torrance, where he would go on to lead the team that developed & built the F4D Skyray for the Marine Corps. He and Lorana made a comfortable life, first in Manhattan Beach, then Garden Grove/Anaheim and he died unexpectedly during an annual routine checkup and was scheduled for removal of an ulcer. He sustained two sudden successive heart events that claimed his life at the age of 33, with Lorana at his side. They had been married 12 years and had two daughters, ages 9 & 11. His wife and future son-in-law (married to Helen) share his burial site.
Children: Helen L, Muriel E ("Mona")
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