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Veteran Bios A

Aarons, Paul​
Adriance, Leonard F.
​Ahlsen, Ralph E
 
Aarons, Paul D.

Obituary (matches birth year, state of Iowa, veteran of WW2); includes professional career (he was a pressman), wife and kids names, photo.
 
https://www.newspapers.com/image/305869951/?terms=paul%2Bd%2Baarons
 
another obituary from a different paper, slightly different info, including the note that his son was in the army at the time of Paul's death.
 
https://www.newspapers.com/image/356518877/?terms=paul%2Bd%2Baarons
​
 

Adriance, Leonard F. 

He died May 4, 2011 in Pompano Beach, Florida. He is buried in the South Florida National Cemetery, Lake Worth FL, Section 39, Site 3005. Here is the Find a Grave entry. (Birth MMDDYY matches 1942 draft registration.)
 
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/94011172
 
A check on the cemetery site 

http://www.interment.net/data/us/fl/palmbeach/south-florida-national-cemetery-records-a.htm

shows that he was a US Army T/5 in WW2 (which matches a note in the GA database).

Social Security death index confirms that SS card issued in NJ (his state of birth) and death occurred in Florida. (Also draft card birthdate matches SS death index birthdate.)

https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&dbid=3693&h=90245876&tid=&pid=&usePUB=true&_phsrc=Lpd2&_phstart=successSource

That's the facts; now the speculation.

The 1987 article linked below is an interesting one, describing the business of a Rita Adriance, who met her husband Leonard in 1980 when they were working on the production staff of a play. They were living in Coral Springs, Florida. I have not been able to confirm that this is the same Leonard Adriance. We know our Leonard lived in this part of Florida from his death and burial information.

https://www.newspapers.com/image/237346694/?terms=leonard%2Bf%2Badriance

Here is a confirming piece:

https://www.newspapers.com/image/632101813/?terms=leonard%2Bf%2Badriance

The articles say that Leonard had a musical background; they had written 3 plays together with him composing the music. ​

Found a divorce record for Leonard and Rita from 1996 in Broward County.
 
Found a relatively current web page for Rita
 
http://www.missritatheater.com/about
 
and I sent her an email to see if I could confirm this is the GA Leonard, but have not heard back.
 
I also found this 1983 article describing a one-man show of paintings by Leonard Adriance in Coral Springs, FL.
 
https://www.newspapers.com/image/624620898/?terms=%22leonard%2Badriance%22
 
So this must be the same Leonard Adriance that was married to Rita. (Leonard Adriance is a relatively unusual name; probably not two of them in Coral Springs.)
 
In trying to confirm that this was the GA Leonard Adriance, I did find that a Leonard F. Adriance of Newark NJ (where Leonard was living at the time of the draft) composed the words and music to a song entitled "What an Evening for Love" in 1940. 
 
https://archive.org/stream/catalogofcopyrig353libr/catalogofcopyrig353libr_djvu.txt
 
Not sure that's strong enough proof but it does link a musical Leonard F Adriance in New Jersey in 1940 to a musical Leonard F Adriance in Florida in modern era, and we know our Leonard F was in NJ and FL at those times.

 

Ahlsen, Rolf E. 

I was only able to find one Rolf Ahlsen anywhere in the US (ancestry, newspapers, Google) and he was an artist and served in WW2 so this has to be the right guy.

 He was born in 1911 in Stockholm, Sweden and emigrated to the US in 1928. (Per ancestry)

 Per his draft registration card he was working for the NY Daily News at the time he was drafted. He enlisted on May 14, 1943, and was released on December 29, 1945.
 https://www.ancestry.com/interactive/2238/44027_02_00002-01991?pid=193377758&backurl=https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv%3D1%26dbid%3D2238%26h%3D193377758%26tid%3D%26pid%3D%26usePUB%3Dtrue&treeid=&personid=&hintid=&usePUB=true&usePUBJs=true&_ga=2.3570032.1950827143.1586455145-179483790.1570532033#?imageId=44027_02_00002-01991

He died on Feb. 18, 1995 in Phoenix, AZ, and is buried at the National Memorial Cemetery of Arizona in Phoenix. He is listed as a T/5 in the US Army in WW2.
 His obituary says he was an editorial cartoonist.

 https://www.newspapers.com/image/117071879/?article=38495704-ef21-4f8d-a9ee-769efd1c2878
 I found elsewhere that he co-created with Bill Kresse a Sunday strip in the NY Daily News from 1968-1972 called "Super" Duper about a bumbling superintendent. They also did a strip called Scratch. They were sometimes credited under their individual names and sometimes as Krahlsen (a combo of their last names).
 
​
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Kress

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