Walter H ELLINGBOE

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Engineer - International Harvester
• Wisconsin Death Certificate: 025142
• Baptism: 22 May 1887, Gibson Twp, Manitowoc County, Wisconsin
• Confirmation: 7 Jul 1901, Gibson Twp, Manitowoc County, Wisconsin

Notes:

Residence at death: 180 Park St., Sussex, WI. Member of Mount Zion Lutheran church, Henry L. Palmer Lodge NO. 301 F. and A.M., Palmer Chapter No. 87 R.A.M., Ivanhoe Commanderery No. 24 K. T., and Managerial Pension Club of International Harvester.

The JCC confirmation records show his baptism date as May 22. May 22, 1887 was a Sunday. April 22, 1887 was a Friday.

In the 1909 Milwaukee city directory, he is a trucker. He lives with his cousins at 154 S Bay.

In the 1910 census, he is a machinist for a culvert plant and lodges with his brother Oscar with a family in Two Rivers.

Registered for the draft in Milwaukee, date illegible. He was married and living at 1212 Burleigh in Milwaukee. He worked for International Harvester, Milwaukee Works 25. He was described as tall and of medium build with grey eyes and light hair.

In the 1920 census, he is living in Milwaukee with his sister Eleanor and his son Robert at 1373 Louis Avenue. He is shown as married but his wife is not mentioned. Walter is a machinist at an electrical something.

In the 1926 Milwaukee city directory, he is an assistant foreman for International Harvester Co. He lives at 1550 16th. His sister Eleanor lives at this same address.

In the 1930 census, he is shown as a widower living in a house he owns, worth $6000, at 1550 16th Street in Milwaukee. Living with him is his son Robert, his sister Eleanor, and his 25-year-old niece Clara. Walter is a foreman at a steel mill and Clara is a stenographer at a telephone company.

In the 1939 Milwaukee city directory, he is a foreman for International Harvester. He lives at 3532 North 16th with his sister Eleanor and his son Robert A.

In the 1940 census, he and his son and his sister Eleanor live at 3532 North 16th Street in Milwaukee, the same house in which they all had lived in 1935. Walter owned the house and it was worth $5500. He is a widower. He is a foreman at a farm machinery company, a job which earned him $3000 in 1939. He had an eighth-grade education.

In his World War II draft registration, he gave as the person who would always know his address Miss E.E. Ellingboe, 3532 N 16th Street. He was employed by Internation Harvester. His telephone number was Concord 2439M.

In the 1947 city directory, he is a toolroom foreman at International Harvester. He and Rose live at 3532 N 16th.

In the 1950 census, he and his wife and daughter Jane, and his widowed mother-in-law, lived 3532 16th Street in Milwaukee. He was a mechanical engineer for a farm machinery company.

Baptism:
ELCA records

Died:
last residence was Sussex, Waukesha County, Wisconsin

Walter married Selma PFIEFFER about 1915. Selma was born on 11 Nov 1893 in Milwaukee County, Wisconsin; died on 18 Oct 1918 in Milwaukee County, Wisconsin; was buried in Lincoln Memorial Cemetery, Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Walter married Rose Katharine LEDERER on 23 Nov 1942. Rose was born on 7 Apr 1900; died on 13 Mar 2004 in Sussex, Waukesha County, Wisconsin. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Aviator in WWII

Notes:

In the 1939 Milwaukee city directory, he lives with his father and aunt at 3532 North 16th. No occupation.

In the 1940 census, he lived with his aunt and father in Milwaukee. He had had three years of college and worked as a mechanical engineer for a transport company. He earned $360 in 1939.

He had attended, probably graduated from, Marquette University.

Name: Robert A. Ellingboe
State Registered: Hawaii
Death Date: 5 Nov 1944
Cemetery: Tablets of the Missing at Honolulu Memorial
Cemetery Burial Plot: Missing in Action or Buried at Sea
Cemetery City: Honolulu
Cemetery Country: Hawaii
War: World War II
Awards: Air Medal, Purple Heart
Title: Lieutenant
Rank: Lieutenant
Service: U.S. Navy
Service ID: 0-121704
Division: United States Naval Reserve
Data Source: World War II Honor Roll

Inducted from Wisconsin. Other sources show date of death as November 4th and November 3rd.

He was a Navy flier based out of Whidbey Naval Air Station in Oak Harbor, Washington. In World War II, both land and seaplane squadrons home-based at NAS Whidbey Island were deploying to the Aleutian Islands to participate in operations against Japanese naval forces and the Japanese homeland.  Patrol squadrons operating from the NAS Whidbey Island sea lanes and runways since 1942 have contributed valiantly to the nation’s defense.  Aircraft such as the PBY Catalina, PBM Mariner, PV-1 Ventura, PV-2 Harpoon, PB4Y-2 Privateer, P2V Neptune, P5M Marlin, P3A, P3B and the current P3C Orion have been used in the patrol squadron mission virtually around the world while home-ported at NAS Whidbey Island.

4 Nov 1944: Lieutenant Robert A. Ellingboe and five crewmen were reported missing in action during a daylight attack on Toroshimo Retto, the squadron’s first combat mission. Eight VPB-131 Venturas were serving as fighter escort for the Army 28th Bombardment Group’s B-24 Liberators when attacked by ten enemy fighters. Lieutenant Ellingboe’s Ventura was hit and crashed in flames into the sea.

A newspaper report of his being missing was in the December 14, 1944, edition of the Wisconsin State Journal.

Buried:
Honored at but not buried at

Robert married Ruth Ann JAEGER in Apr 1944. Ruth was born on 19 Jan 1923 in Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin; died on 17 Jul 2015 in Dane County, Wisconsin. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Wisconsin Death Certificate: 027518

Notes:

Jane may have been adopted and/or Rose’s daughter from her marriage to Witzlib.

She graduated from Rufus King High School in Milwaukee in 1955.

She was Jane Ellingboe of Sussex when she pledged to the U-W Madison’s Alpha Xi Delta sorority in March of 1956.

Notes:

Beloved husband of Nancy M. Loew; loving father of Jennifer Darby and Christopher Loew; son of Jack and Ruth Loew; brother of Christine Ellickson and her husband Sam; grandfather of Jessica Darby.

Resided in Germantown, Maryland.

His Social Security number was issued in Wisconsin.

Graduated from the University of Wisconsin.

Robert married N.M. JAMES [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]