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Name
DeForest "Woody" Becker   #12305
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Born
abt 1925
 Place
New York
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Died
21 Jan 1945
 Place
Florida
Source
     approx. age 20


Buried

Father
DeForest Becker 1893-   #12304
Mother
Gladys Elizabeth Fingar 1899-    #4223

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Ensign DeForest Becker, 20, navy aviator, was lost at sea Sunday night following a plane collision near the navy air base at Sanford, Fla., according to a Navy Department message received by his parents, Dr. and Mrs. DeForest Becker, of 1176 E. 29th St. He was graduated as a naval air pilot at Pensacola Training Base last Nov. 14. Born In Brooklyn, he attended Boys High School and was graduated from Stony Brook Preparatory School In 1942. He then entered Bowdoln College and later enlisted as a naval training cadet. Besides his parents he is survived by a brother, William Curtis, and his grandmothers, Mrs. Anna E. Fingar and Mrs. Edith Becker. Memorial services will be held Sunday at 4 p.m. at the Kings Highway Methodist Church, Kings Highway and E. 37th St. Brooklyn Eagle January 26, 1945

Found him on the 1940 New York, Kings, New York census (dist 24-259A img 10) as DeForest Becker Jr. age 15. Address: 1176 East 29th Street. 


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                                  | Melvin W. Becker  1857          | 
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| DeForest Becker 1893            |
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|                                 | Edith I. Young 1863             |
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|- DeForest "Woody" Becker   
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|                                                                   | George Washington Finger  1847 
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|                                 | Harold C. Fingar  1875          |   
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|                                 |                                 | Eliza A. Boice 1855 
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| Gladys Elizabeth Fingar 1899    |
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                                  | Anna E. Moore 1872              |
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