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Brief Life History of Lester James

When Lester James Gradle was born on 8 June 1928, in Indiana, United States, his father, George Dewey Gradle, was 30 and his mother, Emma Weiler, was 30. He died in January 2001, in Illinois, United States, at the age of 72.

This information was obtained from: https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/about/GZK9-KT4. The picture above was obtained from the 1947 HHS Centennial Memories yearbook, made available by the Lake County Public Library, at: https://archive.org/details/HOHS1947Images/.