Who's Who at Sturgis Bible Chapel, MI

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Sturgis Bible Chapel, St. Joseph, MI (OB) 1919-2013+

Correspondents

  • A.L. Ritts 1919-1922+
  • I.E. Bollman @ 203 S. Clay St. +1927+

Commended Workers

  • Earle Froh - 1942
  • Mert & Jane Wolcutt - to Congo & CMML

Families

Anderson family

  • Elmer Anderson +1942+

Bollman family

@ 203 S. Clay St. +1927+

  • I.E. Bollman +1927-1942+

Froh family

Earle was commended by the open assembly in Sturgis to full-time resident work in 1942. He was employed as a bookkeeper, and later joined the local Church of the Nazarene, where his funeral was held, officiated by A.W. Gould, after two days illness that led to his death at the age of 49. He continued his lay ministry for the duration of his life. See obit & Earle Froh Commendation LOI 1942-1&2.

Earle's nephew Robert Charles Froh (1925-1945) was "lost near the (Paw Paw Rocks) Bahamas" during WWII where he was serving as a Sea 1C U.S. N.A.C. at the age of 19. He was on a scheduled radar training patrol flight on a PB4Y-1 (similar to a B-24) with 13 other crew members in early March of 1945, the plane was flown by Lt. Ernest B. Anderson. Other crew included Ens. Ervin C. Orser, Ens. Ivar D. Ohlin, Lt. Nicholas Feckoury, AMM2/c Donald M. Maloney, AMM3/c Joie "L" McKinney, ARM2/c Vernon A. Elchert, ARM3/c Charles J. Nickerman, Slc. Basil G. Stewart, AOM2/c Roger W. Dennis, AOM2/c George A. Martin, S1/c Edward B. Walthall & ARM2/c John G. Roche.

As per Ancestry.com, the pilot "took off on a scheduled 10 hr. radar training flight in the vicinity of the Bahamas Is.

Regular CW position reports were received until and including the 1700 position report which placed his plane 60 miles due west of Paw Paw Rocks in the Bahamas where he was scheduled to conduct simulated radar bombing and strafing attacks at Paw Paw Rock radar target. This plane sent no radio reports after 1720, did not return to the base, and was presumed lost when one hour overdue.

Special searches were sent out on Mar. 11 thru 18, with no results other than sighting of two empty rubber life rafts in the vicinity of Walker Cay, Bahamas Islands.". Both were deemed probable to have been associated with the downed plane.

  • Albert August Froh +1939 (b. 1869 Burr Oak, St. Joseph, MI - d. 1939 Sturgis, MI). Harold Harper officiated his memorial at the Gospel Hall.
  • Frances Edith Gray Froh +1939+ (b. 1874 Millbrook, Mecosta, MI - d. 1959 Sturgis, MI)
    • LaRoy Froh (b. 1895 Sturgis, MI - d. 1965 Lansing, Ingham, MI). Wife: Mildred P. Froh (1896-1972). 1930 @ Grand Rapids, MI.
      • Robert Charles Froh (1925-1945).
    • Earle Francis Froh 1932-1942+ (b. 1910 Sturgis, MI - d. 1960 Centreville, St. Joseph, MI)
    • Verne Froh

Griffeth family

  • S.C. Griffeth +1942+

Kribs family

  • Richard Kribs +1942+

Mead family

  • Ira Mead +1942+

Ritts family

  • A.L. Ritts 1919-1922+

Snook family

  • Homer Snook +1942+

Wolcott family

Mert & Jane were commended from this assembly to Congo, then CMML, then to Rest Haven.

  • Mert Wolcutt
  • Jane Wolcutt

Sources

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