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- From grandson Robb ARBOUR on 01 Mar 2007: Ronald S. Arbour was born on 4 July 1920, in the Canadian city of Sault Ste. Marie. He came to America with his parents and lived in Waukesha, WI, until he was 5 years oldand then moved to Detroit, MI. Before WWII, he was a night watchman ina cemetery. When the war came, he enlisted in the Army and was stationed in Valparaiso, IN. Soon after, he became a Sergeant/Gun Instructor and was re-stationed in Macon, GA. He had a total of 40 months in service. Ronald and Helen married in 1942 and proceeded to have four children. After the war, he became a plumber's assistant while studying at Lawrence Tech. He got a degree in Drafting and started working for Detroit Cut Stone, a company he would later own. He sold the company in 1982, but stayed on theirpayroll for 9 more months before retiring. Ron and Helen lived on Pingree in Detroit for their first five years of marriage.Some of Ronald's friends were former members of Detroit's Purple Gang.This street was later the height of destruction during the 1967 Detroit riots. In 1948, they moved to 740 Meadowdale in Ferndale, MI. They bought this house for $10,800.00 and raised their family there. Helen started working for the J.L. Hudson company in 1961 and worked there untilshe retired in 1984. Ronald and Helen owned their Ferndale house until1998, when they sold the house and moved back totheir 40-acre farm in Chesaning, MI, which Helen's parents sold to them in 1968. Ronald livedthere until he passed away from Parkinson's Disease on 8 November 2006. Helen still resides there.
In 1940, Ronald reported that he had earned $124 in 1939.
He had 4 Living Arbour
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1920 - 2006 (86 ans)
