s/o Orville / Orval William & Thelma J (Dunham) Grout
1930 Census: family enumerated in Los Angeles Co, CA:
Orville & Thelma, & children: Keith, Kenneth, Robert, Marva, & Betty Grout
On July 3, 1943, in Los Angeles Co, CA; Kenneth Wayne Grout, age 19, born Apr 22, 1924, SD; occupation: US Navy; of W 188th Ave, Inglewood, CA; married Ruth Leatrice Rush, age 16, born May 19, 1927, Santa Ana, CA; daughter of Edward Lee & Winifred Lee Rush (both born in TN); bride's address W 134th St, Hawthorne, CA; witness: her brother, PVT Emmett S Rush of Stillwater. OK; by Paul H Fulter, Minister of Hawthorne, CA. (Ruth's mother, Winifred's maiden name was also Rush; the daughter of J W Rush.)
Kenneth & Ruth (Rush) Grout had a son, Gary Wayne Grout, born May 3, 1945, in Inglewood, CA.
Aviation Petty Officer 2nd Class "ARM2C" Kenneth W. Grout was a member of the US NAVY bombing-fighting squadron VB-87 aboard the USS Ticonderoga CV-14 during WWII. On 24 July, 1945 while flying a mission over Kure Harbor, Japan, his plane was hit by AA- gunfire and went down. He was declared missing along with his pilot.
They were listed as MIA and declared dead a year later.
He served as a radioman and tail gunner. Listed as pictured on the Pearl Harbor War Memorial in Honolulu, Hawaii on the 'Courts of the Missing'
1930 Census: family enumerated in Los Angeles Co, CA:
Orville & Thelma, & children: Keith, Kenneth, Robert, Marva, & Betty Grout
On July 3, 1943, in Los Angeles Co, CA; Kenneth Wayne Grout, age 19, born Apr 22, 1924, SD; occupation: US Navy; of W 188th Ave, Inglewood, CA; married Ruth Leatrice Rush, age 16, born May 19, 1927, Santa Ana, CA; daughter of Edward Lee & Winifred Lee Rush (both born in TN); bride's address W 134th St, Hawthorne, CA; witness: her brother, PVT Emmett S Rush of Stillwater. OK; by Paul H Fulter, Minister of Hawthorne, CA. (Ruth's mother, Winifred's maiden name was also Rush; the daughter of J W Rush.)
Kenneth & Ruth (Rush) Grout had a son, Gary Wayne Grout, born May 3, 1945, in Inglewood, CA.
Aviation Petty Officer 2nd Class "ARM2C" Kenneth W. Grout was a member of the US NAVY bombing-fighting squadron VB-87 aboard the USS Ticonderoga CV-14 during WWII. On 24 July, 1945 while flying a mission over Kure Harbor, Japan, his plane was hit by AA- gunfire and went down. He was declared missing along with his pilot.
They were listed as MIA and declared dead a year later.
He served as a radioman and tail gunner. Listed as pictured on the Pearl Harbor War Memorial in Honolulu, Hawaii on the 'Courts of the Missing'
s/o Orville / Orval William & Thelma J (Dunham) Grout
1930 Census: family enumerated in Los Angeles Co, CA:
Orville & Thelma, & children: Keith, Kenneth, Robert, Marva, & Betty Grout
On July 3, 1943, in Los Angeles Co, CA; Kenneth Wayne Grout, age 19, born Apr 22, 1924, SD; occupation: US Navy; of W 188th Ave, Inglewood, CA; married Ruth Leatrice Rush, age 16, born May 19, 1927, Santa Ana, CA; daughter of Edward Lee & Winifred Lee Rush (both born in TN); bride's address W 134th St, Hawthorne, CA; witness: her brother, PVT Emmett S Rush of Stillwater. OK; by Paul H Fulter, Minister of Hawthorne, CA. (Ruth's mother, Winifred's maiden name was also Rush; the daughter of J W Rush.)
Kenneth & Ruth (Rush) Grout had a son, Gary Wayne Grout, born May 3, 1945, in Inglewood, CA.
Aviation Petty Officer 2nd Class "ARM2C" Kenneth W. Grout was a member of the US NAVY bombing-fighting squadron VB-87 aboard the USS Ticonderoga CV-14 during WWII. On 24 July, 1945 while flying a mission over Kure Harbor, Japan, his plane was hit by AA- gunfire and went down. He was declared missing along with his pilot.
They were listed as MIA and declared dead a year later.
He served as a radioman and tail gunner. Listed as pictured on the Pearl Harbor War Memorial in Honolulu, Hawaii on the 'Courts of the Missing'
1930 Census: family enumerated in Los Angeles Co, CA:
Orville & Thelma, & children: Keith, Kenneth, Robert, Marva, & Betty Grout
On July 3, 1943, in Los Angeles Co, CA; Kenneth Wayne Grout, age 19, born Apr 22, 1924, SD; occupation: US Navy; of W 188th Ave, Inglewood, CA; married Ruth Leatrice Rush, age 16, born May 19, 1927, Santa Ana, CA; daughter of Edward Lee & Winifred Lee Rush (both born in TN); bride's address W 134th St, Hawthorne, CA; witness: her brother, PVT Emmett S Rush of Stillwater. OK; by Paul H Fulter, Minister of Hawthorne, CA. (Ruth's mother, Winifred's maiden name was also Rush; the daughter of J W Rush.)
Kenneth & Ruth (Rush) Grout had a son, Gary Wayne Grout, born May 3, 1945, in Inglewood, CA.
Aviation Petty Officer 2nd Class "ARM2C" Kenneth W. Grout was a member of the US NAVY bombing-fighting squadron VB-87 aboard the USS Ticonderoga CV-14 during WWII. On 24 July, 1945 while flying a mission over Kure Harbor, Japan, his plane was hit by AA- gunfire and went down. He was declared missing along with his pilot.
They were listed as MIA and declared dead a year later.
He served as a radioman and tail gunner. Listed as pictured on the Pearl Harbor War Memorial in Honolulu, Hawaii on the 'Courts of the Missing'
Inscription
GROUT, Kenneth W
AVN Radioman 2C • USNR • California
Gravesite Details
Entered the service from California.
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