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Subject: (LONG) SEEKING MARSHA GROSS, born c. 1949 + INFO ON EARL
CLINTON GROSS

[Disclaimer: Sorry if you've seen this before.  I'm unsure of whether
my "normal" Internet account is working, so I am posting it from
several.  If you need to flame, please do so in private e-mail.]

SEEKING MARSHA GROSS, born c. 1949
and PERSONS WHO KNEW EARL CLINTON GROSS, born 1919.

I am seeking contact with or information about my half-sister, whom I

have never seen.  I would appreciate any advice on how to go about 
tracing her.  

I want to contact her to see if she is doing fine, and, if she is 
willing, to ask her if she could tell me what she knows about our
father, 
who died when I was six years old.

(my name is Pamela Gross
D.O.B.  10/16/62
the sister I grew up with is Patricia Atlas (nee Gross)
D.O.B.  5/25/65)

If anyone reads this who knows her, I have discovered this info:

the sister I am seeking is Marsha Gross
she was 6 years old when some papers were drawn up in July, 1955
D.O.B. not known
born in Rhode Island
was enrolled in the University of Connecticut in 1969
her mother was Madeline Gross
I was told as a child she "may have gone to California, to be a
nurse"
I have only one letter about her, from someone who writes he was a
friend 
of my father's:  a Joseph E. Kochhan, 752 Narragansett Pkwy.,
Warwick, RI.
our father was Earl Clinton Gross 
she is said to have been very intelligent

Earl C. Gross was born June 3, 1919, in Cranston, RI.  His home at
that 
time was 57 Norfolk Street.  His mother, May L. Eddy, was 34 and was
born 
in Providence, RI.  His father, Elmer J. Gross, was also 34 and was
born 
in Lowell, MA.  

My father went to Lakewood Grammar School in Warwick, RI.,  Gilbert
Stuart 
Junior High School, Providence, RI and Central High School,
Providence, RI. 
taking commercial courses. 

He went to RCA Radio School in the Navy in 1942, and PB4Y2 school in
the 
Navy in Minneapolis, MN in 1944 to learn radar maintenance.  

He attended Rhode Island State College, extension division, in
Providence,
RI in 1948.  He was at the American Institute of Banking, Providence,
RI,
in 1950.  He worked at "Wilson's Big Chief", Providence, RI, 1937 -
1939.
He worked at General American Credit Company, Providence, RI,
1939-1940.  He worked at Industrial Finance Co., Providence, RI,
1940-1942.
He worked at Rheem Shipyard, Providence, RI, in 1942.  

He was an Aviation Electronic Technician's Mate 2nd class, USNR V-6
in the
Navy 1942 - 1946.  Serial number 205 12 01.  He served on NTS
Newport, RI,
NTSch New York, NAS Richmond, Fla., Airship Squadron 21, B.H.
Squadron 2,
NAS Minneapolis, Minn., FAW 14, CASU(F) 11.

He worked for Anheuser-Busch in Providence, RI in 1946.  He worked at
Ray
Company, Providence, RI, 1946 - 1947.  He worked at Industrial
National
Bank, Providence, RI, 1947 - 1955.  He moved to Las Vegas in 1955.

In July, 1955, he and Madeline Gross were divorced.  He married my
mother,
Gloria Moretti, December 17, 1955, in Las Vegas.  He died in Las
Vegas 
June 13, 1969, of lung carcinoma.

There is a note to the family at the time of his funeral from a David
L. 
Freed, 47 E. 4th South, Salt Lake City, Utah.

Patricia and I both have unusual health problems, so a family 
medical history would be of interest.  I also know next to nothing
about 
my father's family, and would like to know.  Family trees are of
great 
interest to me. But my primary goal is to find my sister Marsha and
make
sure she is doing ok, and perhaps know some of her life and what she
is
like--and to learn what my own father was like.

Anyone who can help me, please e-mail me at kira@rain.org.  Please
send a 
copy to my significant other at another address, since I have
problems
with my Internet access:  dburr@rns.com.

Thank you in advance for assistance with something that means so much
to me.

Pamela Gross
kira@rain.org
(805) 564-1871
U.S.A.

c/o Donald Burr -- dburr@rns.com