US Ex Serviceman history

[Alex Smart]

Hello,
How /where can I access the details of an American Serviceman ?

Name was Rene A Gaudette.
I have found him on findagrave but that only gives family details.
Nara aad gives me one Robert A and two Raymond A.

Alex

[paulmcmillan]

Rene Albert Gaudette
McPhee Family Tree
Matching Person details
Spouse Jeannette Marsan
Father Albert Joseph Gaudette
Mother Yvonne Blanche Granger
Birth 26 Mar 1915 Marlborough, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA
Death 5 Oct 1999 Westborough, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA

[alieneyes1]

Alex,

https://aad.archives.gov/aad/record-...=1&rid=2223889

GAUDETTE, Rene A "The Colonel"; 84; Marlboro MA; Worcester T-G; 1999-10-7. I do not have access to the Worcester Telegram and Gazette so cannot tell you what his obituary says about his military service

Regards,

Dave

[Alex Smart]

Many thanks Dave, how did I miss that ???
Yes he is the one I was looking for.

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/...ne-a-gaudette#


Thanks again
Alex

[RSwank]

Alex, Found this:

Worcester Telegram & Gazette (MA) - Thursday, October 7, 1999

MARLBORO - Rene A. "The Colonel" Gaudette, 84, of Marlboro, a retired expediter and a World War II and Korean War Army veteran, died Tuesday in Westboro Health Care Center, where he had recently become a resident.

He leaves his wife of 55 years, Jeannette (Marsan) Gaudette; two daughters, Janice Lanaghan of Grafton and Claudette Boule of Marlboro; and two granddaughters. A daughter, Gail Gaudette, died before him. Born in Marlboro, son of Albert and Yvonne (Granger) Gaudette, he attended Northeastern University, Boston, before earning a degree in business administration from Boston University in 1941. He served in the Army Reserves, retiring as a lieutenant colonel in 1975.

Mr. Gaudette worked for Telechron in Ashland and later as an expediter for Raytheon Corp. in Wayland and Sudbury. He retired in 1981.

He was a member of St. Mary's Parish. He was a member of the Disabled Americans Chapter 82, the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 638, ROTC, and the Catholic Order of Foresters.

The funeral Mass will be at 10 a.m. Saturday in St. Mary's Church, Broad Street. Burial will be in St. Mary's Cemetery. Calling hours are 4 to 8 p.m. tomorrow in Slattery Funeral Home Inc., 40 Pleasant St. Memorial contributions may be made to St. Mary's Parish Fund, 26 Broad St., Marlboro, MA 01752.

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Worcester Telegram & Gazette (MA) - Thursday, October 7, 1999
CITE THIS RECORD
Worcester Telegram & Gazette (Massachusetts) 07 October 1999, obit for RENE A. GAUDETTE, 84, GenealogyBank.com

(https://www.genealogybank.com/doc/ob...705C8A18D83D77 : accessed 1 July 2022)

[Alex Smart]

My grateful thanks Rolland.
This info will be of help to genamod(denalor) and the Austrian museum I expect.
Alex