OBITUARY INFORMATION FROM FIND-A-GRAVE WEBSITE:

John Gradle Roper
BIRTH          2 Dec 1915, Indiana, USA
DEATH          26 Aug 1974 (aged 58), La Grange, Cook County, Illinois, USA
BURIAL         Oakridge-Glen Oak Cemetery, Hillside, Cook County, Illinois, USA
MEMORIAL ID    197014212

This information was obtained from: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/197014212/john-gradle-roper. The picture above was obtained from the 1931 HHS Aurora yearbook (when John was a sophomore), made available by the Lake County Public Library, at: https://archive.org/details/HOHS1931Images/.

INFORMATION FROM FAMILY SEARCH WEBSITE:

Brief Life History of John Gradle

When John Gradle Roper was born on 2 December 1915, in Indiana, United States, his father, John George Roper, was 32 and his mother, Elsa Mae Gradle, was 25. He lived in Center Township, Marshall, Indiana, United States in 1920 and Hobart Township, Lake, Indiana, United States in 1930. He died on 26 August 1974, in La Grange, Cook, Illinois, United States, at the age of 58, and was buried in Oakridge Cemetery, Hillside, Proviso Township, Cook, Illinois, United States.

This information was obtained from: https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/about/G9WM-GF4.