KLEIN, Charles Jacob
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64 Battery - Private
Born: October 27th 1896, Tavistock
Died: September 7th 1974, Stratford
Attended: Tavistock Public School
After School: Worked at the Glasgow Warehouse, Tavistock
Enlisted: April 1918, Guelph
Trained: Wolseley Barracks, London
Served: War ended before basic training was completed
Discharged: end of 1918
After the War: Worked in his father's Hardware Store, "Klein Brothers Hardware" on Woodstock St., Tavistock, with his brother Mayne until 1965
Family: Parents - Charles and Hermine [Wagner] Klein
Married Leanor May Otto, a teacher, from Elmira, on October 21st 1926. Lea taught at Tavistock School.
Children - William Charles (born August 20th 1928), Mary Lenore (born October 11th 1933), Frances Elizabeth (born October 22nd, 1935).
Comments: Clerk and Treasurer of the Village of Tavistock from June 1929 to December 1959, attending all Council meetings; life long member of Grace United Church; member of the Men's Club and Board of Trade; enjoyed gardening, lawn bowling with his friends; playing euchre and crokinole with family, and driving his many spotless "Plymouths".