William Oscar OCHSNER

1902 - 1984  (82 years)

• Name	William Oscar OCHSNER  [1]
  Birth	22 Apr 1902	Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Occupation	Postmaster, US Postal Service, Strongsville, Ohio  [1]
  Death	17 Nov 1984	Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio   [1]
  Person ID	I452	My Genealogy
  Last Modified	25 Jan 2025

  
  

  Father	Emil Ochsner,   b. 21 Jul 1864, Ober Hallau, Schaffhausen, Switzerland d. 1 Feb 1935, Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio (Age 70 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Wilhelmina BUSE,   b. 19 May 1868, Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio d. 13 Jun 1947, Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio (Age 79 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Family ID	F116	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Bonita ANDREWS,   b. 10 Jul 1905   d. 10 Feb 1990, Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio (Age 84 years)
  Marriage	12 Sep 1930  [1]
  Family ID	F199	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	25 Jan 2025

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - 22 Apr 1902 - Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio Death - 17 Nov 1984 - Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Notes

  [DavOchsner01.FTW] Prior to the entry of the United States into the war, Canada ha d established army-recruiting centers in the Great Lakes area. M y brother William, only fifteen years old at the time, and fire d up with enthusiasm for the war, enlisted in the Canadian Army . He was stopped before he managed to leave the city and my pare nts managed to have his enlistment cancelled. Later, after he tu rned sixteen, William managed to enlist in the U.S. Army by stat ing his age as eighteen and his birthplace as elsewhere than Cle veland. A few days after he had disappeared from home, we receiv ed a letter from him mailed from Columbus, Ohio. He said he ha d enlisted again and they should not get him out as he would re- enlist and not let them know his whereabouts. He was assigned t o a light artillery battalion in the 90th Division, mostly staff ed by westerners from Texas and Oklahoma. He served in France t o the end of the war and after the Armistice remained with the A rmy of Occupation on the Rhine River in Germany. Several years l ater, William rejoined the army, this time going to Panama, th e Philippine Islands and finally to Tientsin, China. We did no t see him for fours years, the last year of which he was on hi s own, playing piano for a living.

  
  

• Sources

  [S9] DavOchsner01.FTW. Date of Import: Jul 3, 2003