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Joseph Flack

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Joseph Flack

Birth
Bucks County, Pennsylvania, USA
Death
8 May 1955 (aged 60)
Burial
Hartsville, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, USA Add to Map
Memorial ID
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(1) From the Biography below, I believe this memorial is a 'Family Marker' as the family were obviously very proud of Joseph.
His Biography shows he was interred at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia.

BIOGRAPHY: Flack, Joseph (1894-1955) — Born in Grenoble, Bucks County, Pa., December 5, 1894. Married to Aloisia Schmid. U.S. Ambassador to Bolivia, 1946-49; Costa Rica, 1949-50; Poland, 1950-55; shot at, and nearly hit, at the U.S. Embassy in La Paz, Bolivia, during the 1946 revolution. Died, from a coronary thrombosis, aboard the ocean liner United States, in the North Atlantic Ocean, May 8, 1955. Interment at Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
Source: http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/fitzsimmons-fladeland.html#04Z02CUAU

(2) Doylestown Daily Intelligencer, Tuesday 4th Oct 1932
"Announcement has been made here of the marriage of Joseph Flack, son of the late Hon Roland and Mrs Flack of Grenoble, to Miss Louise Maria Ann Schmid of Vienna, Austria, in that city on August 25.
The bridgegroom, who had been stationed in Poland as first secretary of the American Embassy, began new duties in the diplomatic service in Madrid, Spain on September 25, it was reported."
(1) From the Biography below, I believe this memorial is a 'Family Marker' as the family were obviously very proud of Joseph.
His Biography shows he was interred at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia.

BIOGRAPHY: Flack, Joseph (1894-1955) — Born in Grenoble, Bucks County, Pa., December 5, 1894. Married to Aloisia Schmid. U.S. Ambassador to Bolivia, 1946-49; Costa Rica, 1949-50; Poland, 1950-55; shot at, and nearly hit, at the U.S. Embassy in La Paz, Bolivia, during the 1946 revolution. Died, from a coronary thrombosis, aboard the ocean liner United States, in the North Atlantic Ocean, May 8, 1955. Interment at Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
Source: http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/fitzsimmons-fladeland.html#04Z02CUAU

(2) Doylestown Daily Intelligencer, Tuesday 4th Oct 1932
"Announcement has been made here of the marriage of Joseph Flack, son of the late Hon Roland and Mrs Flack of Grenoble, to Miss Louise Maria Ann Schmid of Vienna, Austria, in that city on August 25.
The bridgegroom, who had been stationed in Poland as first secretary of the American Embassy, began new duties in the diplomatic service in Madrid, Spain on September 25, it was reported."


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  • Maintained by: Jim Flack
  • Originally Created by: Shiva
  • Added: Jun 16, 2011
  • Find a Grave Memorial ID:
  • Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/71471414/joseph-flack: accessed ), memorial page for Joseph Flack (5 Dec 1894–8 May 1955), Find a Grave Memorial ID 71471414, citing Neshaminy-Warwick Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Hartsville, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, USA; Maintained by Jim Flack (contributor 47120834).