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Elwood V.      (Dumont) Crofoot

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Elwood V. (Dumont) Crofoot

Birth
Park Ridge, Cook County, Illinois, USA
Death
15 Dec 1984 (aged 75)
Cook County, Illinois, USA
Burial
Cremated Add to Map
Memorial ID
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Elwood Dumont Crofoot, name as shown on Cook County birth records, is also known as Elwood V. Crofoot in later records, including the 1930 U.S. census, the engagement announcement of his son Elwood Crofoot, Jr. , to Carol Ramsey in the Arlington Heights Herald, March 7, 1963, p. 46, and his death certificate.

An article in Steelcar Line, the Pressed Steel Car Company, Inc., Armored Tank Division, magazine, Hegewisch Plant, Chicago,March 1945, p. 5, shows a photograph of Elwood Crofoot "loaded down with blueprints and his padlocked tube of original drawings...It is almost impossible not to think of Elwood Crofoot who with his two brothers run the fifty-year-old firm of Crofoot Nielsen and Company... ."

Mrs. Bernice Birkholz Crofoot
January 14, 1912—January 18, 1987
wife of Elwood, is daughter of Robert Birkholz (December 1862-July 12, 1911) and Augusta Goltz (January 1872-October 14, 1956), and sister of Carl R. Birkholz, born April 28, 1896, who died Sunday, September 8, 1968, at the Wood WI VA Hospital, per Sheboygan Press, September 9, 1968.

Transcription of Cook County, IL, death index reflects that Elwood's funeral arrangements were made by Drake and Son Funeral Home. On the burial line, the location is "Rosemont, IL." On the cemetery line, the notation is "Cremation Services."
Elwood Dumont Crofoot, name as shown on Cook County birth records, is also known as Elwood V. Crofoot in later records, including the 1930 U.S. census, the engagement announcement of his son Elwood Crofoot, Jr. , to Carol Ramsey in the Arlington Heights Herald, March 7, 1963, p. 46, and his death certificate.

An article in Steelcar Line, the Pressed Steel Car Company, Inc., Armored Tank Division, magazine, Hegewisch Plant, Chicago,March 1945, p. 5, shows a photograph of Elwood Crofoot "loaded down with blueprints and his padlocked tube of original drawings...It is almost impossible not to think of Elwood Crofoot who with his two brothers run the fifty-year-old firm of Crofoot Nielsen and Company... ."

Mrs. Bernice Birkholz Crofoot
January 14, 1912—January 18, 1987
wife of Elwood, is daughter of Robert Birkholz (December 1862-July 12, 1911) and Augusta Goltz (January 1872-October 14, 1956), and sister of Carl R. Birkholz, born April 28, 1896, who died Sunday, September 8, 1968, at the Wood WI VA Hospital, per Sheboygan Press, September 9, 1968.

Transcription of Cook County, IL, death index reflects that Elwood's funeral arrangements were made by Drake and Son Funeral Home. On the burial line, the location is "Rosemont, IL." On the cemetery line, the notation is "Cremation Services."


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