Wilbur Francis Hinman ⁹ BIGELOW

Green Lawn Cemetery; Montgomery, Lycoming County, PA

16163.32943t     Marvin Charles, b 21 Aug 1923 Dayton, OH, d 03 Mar 1993, bur Forest Park Westheimer Cemetery, Houston, Harris co, TX;  m Maxine Gertrude Hoffman; 10 children

16163.32944t     Janis Aline, b Dayton, OH living ; d ______ ; m Harvey Louis Pahnke; 2 children (see below)

16163.32945t     Norma Corine, b  Camden, NJ living; d ______ ; m Robert William Bower; 4 children;

Sources:
Bigelow Society, The Bigelow Family Genealogy, Vol II, pg 453 child;
correspondence between descendants and Bigelow Society historian/genealogist; 
censuses NY and OH; 
History of Vernon County, MO, pub. 1887.
Howe, Bigelow Family of America.
Stark co, OH birth records.
Find a Grave
Wilbur H. Bigelow Jr., 93, of Laporte, died Monday Dec. 9, 2013, at The Highlands.
Born Dec. 8, 1920, in Dayton, Ohio, he was a son of the late Wilbur H. Sr. and Helen W. Irwin Bigelow.
     During World War II, he served in the Army Air Corp in the Pacific Theater. As a glider pilot, he flew numerous missions with the 82nd Airborne, conveying combat troops into enemy-held islands. He also flew extensive transport missions, evacuated the wounded, and resupplied troops behind enemy lines. He was the first to land on Luzon Island in the Philippines, effectively the first to "return" as McArthur had promised. He achieved the rank of captain as an intelligence officer for the 70th Troop Carrier Squadron and remained in the Air Force Reserve until 1968.
     Following the war, Bill graduated from the University of Wyoming with degrees in history and journalism. He furthered his education by earning a master's degree at Bucknell University and an MBA at New York University.
     In New York City, he worked on Wall Street as director of the Business Library and coordinator for the Executive Development Program for Cities Service Oil Company. In the 1960ás, he returned to central Pennsylvania, where he became head of marketing at Piper Aircraft.
     Bill had many interests and avocations. He was an avid reader of both history and literature; he played an excellent and competitive game of tennis and a mean hand of bridge. He loved to make people laugh with his well-wrought turns of phrase. He was always passionately and actively engaged in life, even in his last years, Bill was deeply loved.
     Surviving are three daughters, Susan (David) LaMont, of Muncy, Linda A. (Gary) Probst, of Lock Haven and Barbara M. Wenner, of South Williamsport; a son, William David Bigelow, of Sayre; two sisters, Janis Pahnke, of Chicago, Ill. and Norma Bower, of Milton; nine grandchildren; and eight great-grandchildren.
     In addition to his parents, Bill was preceded in death by his wife of 25 years, Carolyn Carpenter Bigelow, and a brother, Marvin Bigelow.

Note:  Descendant, Marvin Bigelow stated Francis James Bigelow left the family about 1900 and died in 1930 in Missouri.  A 5th child, believed to be a boy, died within a month of birth.!
Wilbur and Helen had 5 children.  Family group sheets give his name as Wilbur H. and Wilbur Hinman Bigelow.
Notes from:
 Janis Pahnke  < janis222@sbcglobal.net >
Date: 10/17/05
More 07/07/09:
My father is 16153.3294. Wilbur Francis Hinman ⁹ Bigelow,
This is his name, on his Birth Certificate.  He was named for the best friend of his maternal grandfather Joseph F. Sonnanstine. Wilbur Francis Hinman.  They both fought in the 65th Ohio Regiment, in the Civil War.  My father never used the whole name, but was known as Wilbur H. Bigelow, or W.H. Bigelow, all of his life.
 Both my father and my mother are buried in Greenlawn Cemetery, at Montgomery, Lycoming County, PA.  My mother was cremated, and her ashes were taken there from Chicago, where she died.  It's a cemetery near another small town in Penna.  They lived the last years of their lives together in Watsontown, PA.   After my father passed away, my mother came to live with me in Chicago, where she died.  Her ashes were brought back to PA, so she could be buried with my father.
The site says  "Children of Wilbur and Anna (Sonnanstine) Bigelow".  That should say Wilbur and Helen Wilhelmina (Irwin) Bigelow
 
Their first child was wrong: It is:
 Robert Donald, b. 2 Nov. 1919, d 2 Nov. 1919, Dayton, OH buried Woodlawn Cemetery, Dayton, Montgomery County, OH
 
The order of the children is wrong.
Wilbur is the oldest, still living, m Carolyn Ione Carpenter, 4 children
 Marvin, b. 21 Aug. 1923, d 3 March 1993, buried Forest Park Westheimer Cemetery, Houston, Harris County, Texas,  m. Maxine Gertrude Hoffman,  10 children
I am next...Janis, and I have only 2 children (2 BOYS)
My sister, Norma is the youngest.  Her listing is correct.
Under the "Sources", under NOTE: you say that Marvin  stated that
"Francis James Bigelow died in 1930 in Missouri."    My brother may have sent this to you before I did more research on my Grandfather. or perhaps I didn't send Marvin  the corrected information before he got sick and passed away.
There are a few things that are wrong about the other  entries on my family, and I'll send the corrections in the next week or so!
As ever,
Janis Pahnke

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