Smokejumper Obituary: Graeler, Marvin William (Cave Junction 1943)

Authors

National Smokejumper Association

Files

Obituary

Marvin, 59, died April 30, 1977, after suffering a heart attack will playing golf in Lancaster, Ohio. He was born January 23, 1918, in St. Louis, Missouri. Marvin, a meat cutter at the time, was drafted into Civilian Public Service in 1941. He was a member of the Evangelical and Reformed Church. Marvin was among the first group of CPS men to be trained as smokejumpers and was assigned to the new smokejumper base in Cave Junction, Oregon, where he jumped for two years. At the time of his death he was living in Whitehall, Ohio, where he worked as an actuary for Nationwide Insurance. He had been on the Whitehall City Council for five years.

Identifier

Graeler_Marvin-William_Cave-Junction_1943

Publication Date

September 2020

Keywords

Smokejumping; Smokejumpers -- United States; National Smokejumper Association; Wildfire fighters; Obituaries

Disciplines

Forest Management

Recommended Citation

National Smokejumper Association, "Smokejumper Obituary: Graeler, Marvin William (Cave Junction 1943)" (2020). Smokejumper Obituaries. 379.
https://dc.ewu.edu/smokejumper_bios/379