s/o Harry Eugene Shuler and Lulabelle "Lulu" Benstrom Stowe. In his youth he attended North Central High School in Spokane until 1917. Served his country in Army, Co. F, 218 Engineers in W.W. I, and in 11th Air Force, 736th Signal Aircraft Warning Co. in W.W. II. Died at Fort Glenn, Umnak Island, Alaska, buried at Fort Glenn Post Cemetery. When Fort Glenn was dismantled, was moved to Golden Gate Cemetery.
WW I: (lied about his age - 16 years)
Enlisted - 7/12/1918 Camp Lewis, WA; Honorable
Discharged - 2/19/1919 Co. F, 218th Engineers
Spokane Chronicle, 7/10/1919
SERVED IN WAR; REENLISTS TODAY; GOING TO HAWAII
Shuler Saw Service With Engineers-On The Job Again
"You can enlist for one year" Leslie Shuler, age 19, was told when he appeared at the army recruiting office today for reenlistment.
"Nothing doing," he replied. "I would just have the extra trouble of doing it over again year from now."
So Shuler, who lives with his mother at the Amman apartments here, again entered the army in the air service, to learn to fly. He saw service with the 218th engineers during the war, and was at Camp Travis, Texas, for nine months. He will go to Hawaii.
Enlisted - 7/14/1919 Ft. McDowell, CA; Honorable Discharge - 7/13/1922 Sgt., Flying Cadet, Kelly Field, San Antonio, TX
WW II:
Enlisted - 8/6/1942, Pvt., Ft. MacArthur, San Diego, CA; Suicide - 4/7/1944, Ft. Glenn, AK, S/Sgt. 736th Sig. Sv AWS, 11th AF
Edward Sidorski - "I didn't know your uncle and I think it is because he was with a different company, you see there were 3 radar companies on Umnak and I believe that while I was at Kettle Cape your uncle was at Nikolski we were both at these sites for one year and then Kettle Cape and Nikolski switched stations and I think it was to give us different places to see so that our morale would be kept up. This is only a theory of mine. The radar sites would report enemy aircraft to a central location which I think was on Adak and then it was sent to the 11th air force command center located in a huge underground plotting building where they directed where to send the planes to intercept the enemy."
Marriage:
Was married and divorced four times: Mabel Elizabeth Grunig d/o Christian Grunig and Elizabeth Messerly (May 10, 1921, Honolulu), Eleanor Wellman (Dec 5, 1932, Newark, NJ), Eleanor Marie (DeLoach) Fitzsimmons d/o James A. DeLoach, DDS and Charlotte M. Parsons (Mar 5 1934, Vancouver, WA), and LaVerne Therise Nelson, d/o Herman E. Nelson and Mable E. Bowler (Jul 9, 1938, Burien, WA). No children by any marriage have been found.
Mabel left him in 1929 yet kept her married name. After his death she listed herself in city directories as widow of Leslie. Never remarried, she died Apr 16, 1989 in Seal Beach, CA. Eleanor Wellman was a dietitian. Married but a short time, she had the marriage annulled, and in 1940 was located at United Hospital in Rye, NY working as the Chief Dietitian. The maiden name of the third wife was DeLoach. The name Fitzsimmons was her stepfather's. Apparently, she and her siblings were adopted by the stepfather and began using his name. LaVerne (Nelson) Paulson died May 19, 1982, Los Angeles, CA.
WW I: (lied about his age - 16 years)
Enlisted - 7/12/1918 Camp Lewis, WA; Honorable
Discharged - 2/19/1919 Co. F, 218th Engineers
Spokane Chronicle, 7/10/1919
SERVED IN WAR; REENLISTS TODAY; GOING TO HAWAII
Shuler Saw Service With Engineers-On The Job Again
"You can enlist for one year" Leslie Shuler, age 19, was told when he appeared at the army recruiting office today for reenlistment.
"Nothing doing," he replied. "I would just have the extra trouble of doing it over again year from now."
So Shuler, who lives with his mother at the Amman apartments here, again entered the army in the air service, to learn to fly. He saw service with the 218th engineers during the war, and was at Camp Travis, Texas, for nine months. He will go to Hawaii.
Enlisted - 7/14/1919 Ft. McDowell, CA; Honorable Discharge - 7/13/1922 Sgt., Flying Cadet, Kelly Field, San Antonio, TX
WW II:
Enlisted - 8/6/1942, Pvt., Ft. MacArthur, San Diego, CA; Suicide - 4/7/1944, Ft. Glenn, AK, S/Sgt. 736th Sig. Sv AWS, 11th AF
Edward Sidorski - "I didn't know your uncle and I think it is because he was with a different company, you see there were 3 radar companies on Umnak and I believe that while I was at Kettle Cape your uncle was at Nikolski we were both at these sites for one year and then Kettle Cape and Nikolski switched stations and I think it was to give us different places to see so that our morale would be kept up. This is only a theory of mine. The radar sites would report enemy aircraft to a central location which I think was on Adak and then it was sent to the 11th air force command center located in a huge underground plotting building where they directed where to send the planes to intercept the enemy."
Marriage:
Was married and divorced four times: Mabel Elizabeth Grunig d/o Christian Grunig and Elizabeth Messerly (May 10, 1921, Honolulu), Eleanor Wellman (Dec 5, 1932, Newark, NJ), Eleanor Marie (DeLoach) Fitzsimmons d/o James A. DeLoach, DDS and Charlotte M. Parsons (Mar 5 1934, Vancouver, WA), and LaVerne Therise Nelson, d/o Herman E. Nelson and Mable E. Bowler (Jul 9, 1938, Burien, WA). No children by any marriage have been found.
Mabel left him in 1929 yet kept her married name. After his death she listed herself in city directories as widow of Leslie. Never remarried, she died Apr 16, 1989 in Seal Beach, CA. Eleanor Wellman was a dietitian. Married but a short time, she had the marriage annulled, and in 1940 was located at United Hospital in Rye, NY working as the Chief Dietitian. The maiden name of the third wife was DeLoach. The name Fitzsimmons was her stepfather's. Apparently, she and her siblings were adopted by the stepfather and began using his name. LaVerne (Nelson) Paulson died May 19, 1982, Los Angeles, CA.
s/o Harry Eugene Shuler and Lulabelle "Lulu" Benstrom Stowe. In his youth he attended North Central High School in Spokane until 1917. Served his country in Army, Co. F, 218 Engineers in W.W. I, and in 11th Air Force, 736th Signal Aircraft Warning Co. in W.W. II. Died at Fort Glenn, Umnak Island, Alaska, buried at Fort Glenn Post Cemetery. When Fort Glenn was dismantled, was moved to Golden Gate Cemetery.
WW I: (lied about his age - 16 years)
Enlisted - 7/12/1918 Camp Lewis, WA; Honorable
Discharged - 2/19/1919 Co. F, 218th Engineers
Spokane Chronicle, 7/10/1919
SERVED IN WAR; REENLISTS TODAY; GOING TO HAWAII
Shuler Saw Service With Engineers-On The Job Again
"You can enlist for one year" Leslie Shuler, age 19, was told when he appeared at the army recruiting office today for reenlistment.
"Nothing doing," he replied. "I would just have the extra trouble of doing it over again year from now."
So Shuler, who lives with his mother at the Amman apartments here, again entered the army in the air service, to learn to fly. He saw service with the 218th engineers during the war, and was at Camp Travis, Texas, for nine months. He will go to Hawaii.
Enlisted - 7/14/1919 Ft. McDowell, CA; Honorable Discharge - 7/13/1922 Sgt., Flying Cadet, Kelly Field, San Antonio, TX
WW II:
Enlisted - 8/6/1942, Pvt., Ft. MacArthur, San Diego, CA; Suicide - 4/7/1944, Ft. Glenn, AK, S/Sgt. 736th Sig. Sv AWS, 11th AF
Edward Sidorski - "I didn't know your uncle and I think it is because he was with a different company, you see there were 3 radar companies on Umnak and I believe that while I was at Kettle Cape your uncle was at Nikolski we were both at these sites for one year and then Kettle Cape and Nikolski switched stations and I think it was to give us different places to see so that our morale would be kept up. This is only a theory of mine. The radar sites would report enemy aircraft to a central location which I think was on Adak and then it was sent to the 11th air force command center located in a huge underground plotting building where they directed where to send the planes to intercept the enemy."
Marriage:
Was married and divorced four times: Mabel Elizabeth Grunig d/o Christian Grunig and Elizabeth Messerly (May 10, 1921, Honolulu), Eleanor Wellman (Dec 5, 1932, Newark, NJ), Eleanor Marie (DeLoach) Fitzsimmons d/o James A. DeLoach, DDS and Charlotte M. Parsons (Mar 5 1934, Vancouver, WA), and LaVerne Therise Nelson, d/o Herman E. Nelson and Mable E. Bowler (Jul 9, 1938, Burien, WA). No children by any marriage have been found.
Mabel left him in 1929 yet kept her married name. After his death she listed herself in city directories as widow of Leslie. Never remarried, she died Apr 16, 1989 in Seal Beach, CA. Eleanor Wellman was a dietitian. Married but a short time, she had the marriage annulled, and in 1940 was located at United Hospital in Rye, NY working as the Chief Dietitian. The maiden name of the third wife was DeLoach. The name Fitzsimmons was her stepfather's. Apparently, she and her siblings were adopted by the stepfather and began using his name. LaVerne (Nelson) Paulson died May 19, 1982, Los Angeles, CA.
WW I: (lied about his age - 16 years)
Enlisted - 7/12/1918 Camp Lewis, WA; Honorable
Discharged - 2/19/1919 Co. F, 218th Engineers
Spokane Chronicle, 7/10/1919
SERVED IN WAR; REENLISTS TODAY; GOING TO HAWAII
Shuler Saw Service With Engineers-On The Job Again
"You can enlist for one year" Leslie Shuler, age 19, was told when he appeared at the army recruiting office today for reenlistment.
"Nothing doing," he replied. "I would just have the extra trouble of doing it over again year from now."
So Shuler, who lives with his mother at the Amman apartments here, again entered the army in the air service, to learn to fly. He saw service with the 218th engineers during the war, and was at Camp Travis, Texas, for nine months. He will go to Hawaii.
Enlisted - 7/14/1919 Ft. McDowell, CA; Honorable Discharge - 7/13/1922 Sgt., Flying Cadet, Kelly Field, San Antonio, TX
WW II:
Enlisted - 8/6/1942, Pvt., Ft. MacArthur, San Diego, CA; Suicide - 4/7/1944, Ft. Glenn, AK, S/Sgt. 736th Sig. Sv AWS, 11th AF
Edward Sidorski - "I didn't know your uncle and I think it is because he was with a different company, you see there were 3 radar companies on Umnak and I believe that while I was at Kettle Cape your uncle was at Nikolski we were both at these sites for one year and then Kettle Cape and Nikolski switched stations and I think it was to give us different places to see so that our morale would be kept up. This is only a theory of mine. The radar sites would report enemy aircraft to a central location which I think was on Adak and then it was sent to the 11th air force command center located in a huge underground plotting building where they directed where to send the planes to intercept the enemy."
Marriage:
Was married and divorced four times: Mabel Elizabeth Grunig d/o Christian Grunig and Elizabeth Messerly (May 10, 1921, Honolulu), Eleanor Wellman (Dec 5, 1932, Newark, NJ), Eleanor Marie (DeLoach) Fitzsimmons d/o James A. DeLoach, DDS and Charlotte M. Parsons (Mar 5 1934, Vancouver, WA), and LaVerne Therise Nelson, d/o Herman E. Nelson and Mable E. Bowler (Jul 9, 1938, Burien, WA). No children by any marriage have been found.
Mabel left him in 1929 yet kept her married name. After his death she listed herself in city directories as widow of Leslie. Never remarried, she died Apr 16, 1989 in Seal Beach, CA. Eleanor Wellman was a dietitian. Married but a short time, she had the marriage annulled, and in 1940 was located at United Hospital in Rye, NY working as the Chief Dietitian. The maiden name of the third wife was DeLoach. The name Fitzsimmons was her stepfather's. Apparently, she and her siblings were adopted by the stepfather and began using his name. LaVerne (Nelson) Paulson died May 19, 1982, Los Angeles, CA.
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