Ralph Mark LaBarge

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Ralph Mark LaBarge

Birth
Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan, USA
Death
2 Mar 1959 (aged 31)
Pontiac, Oakland County, Michigan, USA
Burial
Troy, Oakland County, Michigan, USA Add to Map
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Ralph Mark Labarge & Yvonne Marie Berghoefer at their wedding

Ralph served as Military Police in the US ARMY in WORLD WAR II. He was the proud father of five young children at the time of his death on March 2, 1959 at the young age of 31. The cause of death was burns he had endured from a fire at the home of friends in which his young wife Yvonne was also in. Yvonne endured 3rd degree burns to over 50 percent of her body. She spent over one year in the hospital and rehabilitation after the fire before being able to go home and tend to her young children. Yvonne became both mother and father to her children as they were growing up and working hard to give them a good life. Yvonne had a second marriage that produced 4 more children and she ultimately raised them because the marriage ended in divorce. She alone raised nine children. Years later, Yvonne learned she had cancer. She took on and fought the dreadful disease with the same courage and determination she had to service the fire years before. Unfortunately, she was not able to survive her cancer. With loving family gathered around her bedside, she passed on June 29, 2001. Ralph and Yvonne have truly been missed by family and friends.


*A VERY SPECIAL THANK YOU TO "IN LOVING MEMORY OF MY BELOVED SON GARY" FOR SPONSORING THIS PAGE--IT WAS SO KIND OF YOU--MAY GOD BLESS YOU
Ralph Mark Labarge & Yvonne Marie Berghoefer at their wedding

Ralph served as Military Police in the US ARMY in WORLD WAR II. He was the proud father of five young children at the time of his death on March 2, 1959 at the young age of 31. The cause of death was burns he had endured from a fire at the home of friends in which his young wife Yvonne was also in. Yvonne endured 3rd degree burns to over 50 percent of her body. She spent over one year in the hospital and rehabilitation after the fire before being able to go home and tend to her young children. Yvonne became both mother and father to her children as they were growing up and working hard to give them a good life. Yvonne had a second marriage that produced 4 more children and she ultimately raised them because the marriage ended in divorce. She alone raised nine children. Years later, Yvonne learned she had cancer. She took on and fought the dreadful disease with the same courage and determination she had to service the fire years before. Unfortunately, she was not able to survive her cancer. With loving family gathered around her bedside, she passed on June 29, 2001. Ralph and Yvonne have truly been missed by family and friends.


*A VERY SPECIAL THANK YOU TO "IN LOVING MEMORY OF MY BELOVED SON GARY" FOR SPONSORING THIS PAGE--IT WAS SO KIND OF YOU--MAY GOD BLESS YOU