INFORMATION FROM FAMIILY SEARCH WEBSITE:

When Joel William Hermann was born on 18 November 1935, in Hobart, Ross Township, Lake, Indiana, United States, his father, Russell Hermann, was 24 and his mother, Irene Lahtinen, was 24. He lived in Hobart Township, Lake, Indiana, United States in 1940. He died in March 2005, in San Francisco, California, United States, at the age of 69.

This information was obtained from: https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/about/L1FP-TNB. The picture above was obtained from the 1953 HHS Memories yearbook (when Joel was a junior), made available by the Lake County Public Library, at: https://archive.org/details/HOHS1953Images/.

INFORMATION FROM ANCESTRY.COM:

This information was obtained from: https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/63049206/person/240098427669/story. The picture below was obtained from: https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/63049206/person/240098427669/gallery?galleryPage=1&tab=0&sort=-created.