Albert (Cleo) Crabtree
Albert (Cleo) Crabtree
Dec. 29, 1941 - March 15, 1945
Charter Member of "America's Greatest Generation"
Albert (Cleo) Crabtree passed away Feb. 2, 2001 at 4:00 pm after a gallant fight with asbestosis. I am going to miss him very much. My heart and soul goes out to his family and friends, this was a GREAT man...
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| Albert Crabtree & D. Giordano | Albert
Blazejewski (in the car)& Shapiro |
Shapiro |
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| Ben Burris,
Albert Blazejewski & Albert Crabtree |
Ben Burris, Albert Blazejewski | Albert Crabtree & Shapiro |
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| Albert Blazejewski | Ben Burris | |
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| Ben Burris | Shapiro | Shapiro |
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| Geridono, D. Leavitt, Al Crabtree | Tailor Shop at San Bruno, CA 1945 | Tailor Shop,
1945 DW Givens, SM Missnirt, AC Crabtree, C. Hernandez, EJ Donnely, J Jarvis. Al was acting MAA at the base but worked in the tailor shop. |
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| Goff and ???, 2nd Division | J.E. Cook 2nd Division | ??? & ??? 2nd Division 43-45 |
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| William (Bill) Mitchell, 1st division 41-43. Bill & Albert were school mates & joined the Navy together in Melrose, NM, Nov. 1941 | C.B. Cates, 2nd Division Officer | C. B. Cates & ??? 2nd Division officers, 42-45 |
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| Captains Inspection, 2nd Division, 1944 | Captains Inspection, 2nd Division, 1942 at Pearl Harbor | ???, but was from Lynn, Mass. 2nd Division 1942 |
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| Captains Inspection, 2nd Division, 1944. Front row, L-R, Cook, Goff, ??? | ??? 2nd Division 43-45 | Jarvis, Donnelly, Missnirt, & Crabtree |
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| Leo and Albert (Cleo) Crabtree, Twins, in Vallejo, CA. 1945 | ||
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| Phyllis with Donna and Albert holding Wanda in the Sonoma Plaza in 1952 | Albert & Phyllis Crabtree, Aug. 22, 1947, Santa Rosa, CA, Wedding picture of Albert & Phyllis on their 50th Anniversary, 1997 | Wanda and Albert (Cleo) on the farm in 1956 |
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| Phyllis and Wanda | His Daughters Wanda & Donna |
This is Cleo and me in December of 2000 |
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| Cleo's Brother, Jay |
I want to thank Phyllis, Wanda, Donna, Al and all of Cleo's wonderful family and friends for making my father and I feel at home. We are all going miss Cleo, he was a great man and an American Hero.