Voices from the Korean War - Douglas Rice [213]
He currently resides in Traverse City, Michigan.
Morton “Pete” Wood, Jr. - Pete passed away on August 10, 2009 and is buried in Arlington National Cemetery.
Anthony “Tony” Gurule’ – After leaving the service in 1953, Tony went back to sea with the Merchant Marines. After doing this for a year and attending college for a year, he returned to his earlier profession of baker. He worked as a foreman for Safeway Stores bakery division, in Richmond, California until 1968. In 1959 he married and had three children.
Then he went to work for the Governor of California—Ronald Reagan—for five years. After obtaining his Real Estate license, he sold real estate in California until 1979.
In 1977 he remarried and moved to New Mexico. There he continued to sell real estate. After starting a small carpet business, he retired in 2005.
He and his wife live in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Marvin Totland – The wounds he received during the war prevented him from doing any hard labor work that he had been accustomed to before the war. So, he went to school. During his second year of college, he married his wife Addie. After college he went to work for the Polar Telephone Company in North Dakota. Then he went to work for the Federated Telephone Cooperative in Chokio, Minnesota.
Six years later he was offered a job with the Rural Electrification Administration, an agency of the federal government. In 1990, after thirty-one years of service, he retired.
He and Addie live in Alexandria, Minnesota. They have one son and one daughter.
David Hughes – Last known, David was living in Colorado.
Stanley Grogan – After leaving the service in 1953, he maintained his commission and aeronautical rating in the Air Force Reserve. Stanley’s regular employment was with Central Intelligence.
In later years he had a career as an educator. After retiring, he still assists students in becoming academically proficient, so they can get into the colleges of their choice.
He and his wife live in Pinole, California.
Calvin Harwick – He returned to his hometown of Rochester, Minnesota after leaving the service. There he returned to the same company he worked for before entering the Army. After working there for twenty years, in the electrical repair shop, the company was sold.
Calvin then went to work for a large company, in their electrical maintenance department. After working there for twenty-fours, he retired.
He still lives in Rochester, Minnesota.
Melbourne Leroy Rogers – After leaving the service, he went back home to Maryville, Tennessee. Leroy went to work for Alcoa. Being laid-off several times, in 1957he went to work as an insurance agent.
He and Fay still live in Maryville. They have two sons.
Mark Pease – While he was stationed at Camp Breckinridge, Kentucky, he met a girl while on pass. They have been married for fifty-seven years.
Mark worked his way through college and went to work as an Engineer. He worked for Jered, designing equipment for ships (mostly Navy). At one time there were over 300 ships, including eleven aircraft carriers, at sea that had equipment which he had designed.
After thirty-six years, he retired in 1995 as Manager of Engineering.
He and his wife live in Newburgh, Indiana. They have two daughters.
Paul Elkins – After leaving the Army, Paul returned to college where he graduated in 1957 with a B.S. Degree in Electrical Engineering. During his career he worked for four different companies in Idaho, New Mexico, and Nevada. In his thirty-three years, he worked in the electronics field designing electronic equipment.
In the mid-1960’s he drifted into the mini-computer field; first as a hardware designer, then into software. In January of 1990, he retired from Los National Laboratory in New Mexico.
He now lives in Kasilof, Alaska.
Dr. William Latham – After returning from Korea in mid-October 1952, he married Carol Roddick. They were married on November 8, 1952, in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
In 1954 he joined a family practice and surgery practice in his hometown of Stockton, California.