Woodbury County

Ensign Paul E. Brennan

 

 
 

 

Paul E. Brennan, seaman first class, U. S. coast guard, is spending a 12-day leave with his mother, Mrs. Frank G. Brennan, 1622 Summit street.  Seaman Brennan is stationed at Galveston, Tex.

Source: The Sioux City Journal, October 12, 1943

Men and Women In Service.

Paul Edward Brennan, son of Mrs. Frank G. Brennan, 1622 Summit Street, has enlisted in the navy V-12 program and is training at Notre Dame University, South Bend, Ind.

Source: The Sioux City Journal, November 22, 1943

Men and Women In Service.

Paul E. Brennan, apprentice seaman with the navy V-12 unit at University of Notre Dame, Ind., is here for Christmas with his mother, Mrs. Frank G. Brennan, 1622 Summit Street.

Source: The Sioux City Journal, December 25, 1943

COMMISSIONED.

Ensign Paul E. Brennan, commissioned Thursday at graduation exercised at Midshipmen’s school, Columbia University, New York, will arrive tonight for a leave before reporting November 7, in Miami, Fla., his new station.  He is a son of Mrs. Frank G. Brennan, 1622 Summit street.  A former Journal reporter, Ensign Brennan enlisted in the coast guard in October 1942; was recommended for V-12 training a year later; studied eight months at University of Notre Dame, and since July at Midshipmen’s school, New York.  He attended Trinity College before his enlistment.

Source:  The Sioux City Journal, October 27, 1944 (photo included)

Paul Edward Brennan was born Sept. 17, 1921 to Frank and Ruth Fachman Brennan. He died Dec. 10, 2009 and is buried in Forest Home Cemetery, Marinette, WI.

Source: ancestry.com