Cox Howard Henry Rohde
Born: 2 March 1925
Parents: Henry Rohde & Bernice Keefer-Rohde
Siblings: 2 sisters, 1 brother
Home:
– 38 South Hillside Avenue, Hillside, Illinois
Education:
– Sunnyside School, Berkley, Illinois
– Proviso Township High School
– Class of 1943
– left school 10 April 1942 to join U.S. Navy
Training:
– Great Lakes Naval Base, Illinois
– trained as an armed guard
Serial Number: 3008434
Rank: Coxswain
Stationed:
– stationed on oil tankers from Port Arthur, Texas
– served in North Atlantic and off North Africa
Died:
– 20 October 1943
– missing after ship collision off Florida Coast
Note: In October 1946, Fifty-fifth Avenue, in Berkley, was Rohde Avenue in honor of Howard Rohde.
Memorial:
– East Coast Memorial, New York, New York
– Forest Home Cemetery – Forest Park, Illinois
