| Name |
John Edward “Pete” LINES |
| Born |
29 Apr 1926 |
Curwensville, Clearfield County, Pennsylvania, USA  [1] |
| Gender |
Male |
| Residence |
22 Apr 1930 |
Pike Township, Clearfield County, Pennsylvania, USA [2] |
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| Residence |
5 Apr 1940 |
Curwensville, Clearfield County, Pennsylvania, USA |
- Bailey Road with mother Nora and Marlie Ellinger
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| Military Service |
1943-1945 |
- World War II, cook who served in New Caledonia.
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John Edward Lines
U.S. Navy Portrait
Circa 1943, 17-years old |
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At least one living or private individual is linked to this item - Details withheld.
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World War II Memorial Plaque
This plaque appears at the World War II Memorial at the Veteran’s Memorial Park in Curwensville, PA on State at Locust Street. The memorial was dedicated on 4 September 2016 and among the names listed "in honor of the World War Veterans of Curwensville" is John E. Lines, with his brother Richard. |
| Social Security #: |
205-18-1195, issued in Pennsylvania state [3] |
| Occupation |
Machine Operator at RCA Rubber Co., Akron, OH; 100% Disability [4, 5] |
| Died |
12 Jan 1998 |
Akron, Summit County, Ohio, USA [1] |
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John Edward Lines
Obituary |
| Buried |
17 Jan 1998 |
Hillside Memorial Park, Akron, Summit County, Ohio, USA [1] |
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John Edward Lines Headstone
Hillside Memorial Park, Akron, OH.
Note: CSG3 stands for Commissaryman (Ships Cook) Petty Officer 3rd Class. |
| Association |
Richard Barton WHITAKER (Relationship: John found and removed Richard's body after Richard downed.) |
| Notes |
- Was called “Pete” by most of his family although his mother never liked it. His wife Edith always called him “Johnnie”. [4]
John's mother lost a child about six months into her pregnancy. She thought she was no longer pregnant after the miscarriage but a few months later discovered she was still pregnant with a twin. The baby was her last child, John Edward Lines who was named after John and “Ed” (William Edward) Lines, his father's brothers. [6]
John enlisted in the Navy at the age of 17 in August of 1943, [lying about his age]. He served on the South Pacific Island of New Caledonia* during World War II as a cook. He suffered severe homesickness when first in the Navy. Later he would be called back into active duty during the Korean Conflict. [4, 7]
In March 1944 John Lines who had been advanced to the grade of Seaman First Class was in action somewhere in the Pacific. [8]
He served during World War Two for 21 months in the South Pacific. In the fall of 1945, after 30 days leave at home with his mother, he reported to Philadelphia, PA for further assignment. [9]- John E. Lines and his brother Richard Delmont Lines are listed among those who served in World War II 1941-1945 from Curwensville in this source. None of the other Lines brothers, who also served, are included. [10]
After serving during World War II, John was later recalled to active duty during the Korean Conflict. [11]
Sometime after World War II, John's brother Eli got him a job at the R.C.A. Rubber Company in Akron, OH where Eli worked and would eventually retire from. [12]
John on several occasions told me the story of searching for and pulling the body of an eleven year old boy, "Dick" Whitaker, out of the Susquehanna River in June of 1943. The drowning may have happened at Pee Wee’s Nest at Irvin Park in Curwensville, but I’m not certain. John who was 17 at the time, always mentioned when telling the story that the newspaper gave him no credit for being the one who found the boy, but rather it was given to the local fire department.
NOTE: It wasn't until March of 2018 that I came to realize that Dick Whitaker was actually a 4th cousin, 1 generation removed of John's. I'm pretty sure my uncle had no idea about this blood relationship. [4]
A long-time resident of Akron, Summit, Ohio where he moved within a few years after the end of World War Two. [13]
Sometime, probably in the late 1950's or early 1960’s, John began suffering from a rare and painful foot disease and never worked again. He was treated for the ailment in the late 1960's at the National Institute's of Health in Bethesda, MD.
John had a good sense of humor and would tell his nephew that he liked to talk to himself as he couldn’t think of a better person to have an “intelligent conversation with.”
Throughout his entire adult life, several times a year, John would drive from his home in Akron to his boyhood home in Clearfield, PA where he would visit his brothers and mother and other extended family. His two sisters Maxine and Lillian lived in Maryland. He often told his nephew Richard Lee Gleason that “You can take the boy out of the country, but you can’t take the country out of the boy.”
John once made the comment to his nephew about the Lines family having great memories, even to a fault. He said, “I wish I didn't have as good a memory as I have, so I could forget all the hurt and sorrows of my life.” [4]
This record indicates John, as a hospital inpatient, died in Cleveland, Cuyahoga, OH 12 Jan 1998 at 8:23 p.m. [14]
*New Caledonia is an overseas territory of France located in the southwest Pacific Ocean, 1,210 km east of Australia. [15]
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| Person ID |
I10 |
tree1 |
| Last Modified |
23 Sep 2023 |
| Father |
Harry Wilbur LINES, b. 15 Nov 1881, Curwensville, Clearfield County, Pennsylvania, USA , d. 25 Jun 1974, Fellowsville, Preston County, West Virginia, USA (Age 92 years) |
| Mother |
Nora Agnes WERTZ, b. 18 May 1886, Bedford County, Pennsylvania, USA , d. 29 Jul 1963, Clearfield, Clearfield County, Pennsylvania, USA (Age 77 years) |
| Married |
25 Dec 1903 |
| Divorced |
Aft Apr 1940 |
| Family ID |
F3 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family |
Ora “Edith” SALENDAY, b. 23 Apr 1930, Akron, Summit County, Ohio, USA , d. 4 Jan 2013, Talmadge, Summit County, Ohio, USA (Age 82 years) |
| Married |
3 Jul 1948 |
Akron, Summit County, Ohio, USA [16] |
- Believes they were married in the parsonage of Thomastown Church in Thomastown, Ohio.
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| Residence |
early 1950s |
Akron, Summit County, Ohio, USA [17] |
| 936 Cole Avenue |
| Residence |
May 1965 |
Akron, Summit County, Ohio, USA [17] |
| For many years John and Edith resided in their home at 1158 Lily Street. |
| Children |
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| Photos |
 | John and Edith Lines
At daughter Shirley (Lines) Werner's wedding.
Photo taken June 1985. |
| Last Modified |
14 Jul 2018 |
| Family ID |
F9 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
1926 - 1998 (71 years)
