Byron Kent Van Vlack, II

1910 - 1978  (68 years)

• Name	Byron Kent Van Vlack
  Suffix	II
  Born	March 22, 1910	Glenham, N.Y
  Gender	Male
  Died	June 12, 1978
  Person ID	I2223	Marinus (M1) Tree | James (J1) b. at old Methodist Cemetery, Beacon, N.Y.
  Last Modified	26 Mar 2013

  
  

  Father	Byron Kent Van Vlack, Sr.,   b. 1878, 1929
  Mother	Ida May Higgs,   b. 1879, 1956
  Family ID	F664	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Anna Marie Vredenburgh,   b. April 26, 1912,   d. July 1, 1925  (Age 13 years)
  Married	March 1, 1930	Glenham, N.Y
  Notes	Moved to Chelsea 1950 Byron was educated in the Beacon schools, quit in the 10th grade, but received his high school equivalency diploma in 1963. Byron worked in the aluminum anodizing industry at Castle Point in the boiler room, later worked in the TV antenna installation business, and then as an apprentice carpenter and plumber. Next he worked in the plumbing supply business, also at the Dept. of Correction as a plumber?s helper, steam fitter, and was a vocational instructor teaching plumbing and heating to the inmates at Fishkill Correctional Facility. He is presently employed at IBM, Fishkill as an engineering technician. Byron was active in the Fire Company in Chelsea, holding line and administration offices; also Scout Master of a Boy Scout troop and cub master of a cub scout pack in Chelsea. He was also in the Naval Reserve in the 1950?s. Carolyn worked in the hat industry in Wappinger Falls and Beacon arid for Holiday Inn in Fishkill; in 1990 she was working for IBM in the accounting department. Together Byron and Carolyn were active in the National Campers and Hikers Association and joined a local chapter. They belonged to the Good Sam Camping Club too. They were living in Chelsea, N.Y. in 1990.
  Children	+ 1. Gloria Mae Van Vlack,   b. March 5, 1931   2. Vivian Van Vlack,   d. 1932 + 3. Byron Kent Van Vlack, III,   b. March 3, 1934, Beacon, N.Y   4. Doris Van Vlack,   d. 1936
  Last Modified	26 Mar 2013
  Family ID	F666	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Born in Glenham, N.Y. and lived there until moving to Beacon, then to Chelsea in 1950 Byron was educated in Glenham and Beacon schools, but quit at age 14 and had to take supplemental schooling until he was 16. Byron worked at varying industries, hat, furniture, dyeing, all in Beacon, then worked during the depression on the Taconic Parkway, WPA, and was foreman on the Elm Disease Tree project for the federal government in southern New York and western Connecticut. He worked for Castle Point, VA Hospital as a stationary boiler fireman, retiring on disability with emphysema at age 55, dying of cancer at age 68. He is buried in Wappanger Rural Cemetery. Byron served in the armed forces during WW II and was one of the few drivers selected by the government to drive the foreign dignitaries for the San Francisco Conference which has now become the United Nations. Anna Marie worked for the W.T. Grant Dept. Store, the hat industry and New York Rubber during WW II, making rubber lifeboats and Mae West life jackets, working also later at the National Biscuit Company, all located in Beacon.