LeRoy Frank Gross

LeRoy Frank Gross, age 95, passed away at home from acute cardiac and respiratory distress, surrounded by loved ones on February 8, 2017.

LeRoy was born to Clara K. and George Charles Gross, on May 5, 1921 in Defiance, Iowa. Three brothers, Alfred, Arthur and Clarence Gross, preceded him in death as well as his first wife, Marilyn Biggers Gross, in 1976.

LeRoy joined the Civilian Conservation Crops in 1940 and enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps in 1942. While in boot camp in San Diego, he met and married Marilyn Biggers, before deploying to Pearl Harbor in 1943. After combat on Guadacanal and P...