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Obituary: Joe Bergstein Feb. 5, 1923 – Dec. 10, 2020


Obituary: Joe Bergstein Feb. 5, 1923 – Dec. 10, 2020
Feb. 5, 1923 – Dec. 10, 2020
Joe Bergstein died Dec. 10, 2020 at the age of 97. Joe was born in McKeesport, PA Feb. 5, 1923, the seventh of nine children by his mother Teresa (Kestenbaum) Bergstein and twelfth of fourteen by his father Sigmond Bergstein. His timing was poor. The Great Depression arrived when he was six years old and was still around when he turned eighteen.
His mother died of cancer shortly before he turned seventeen. He worked at whatever odd jobs he could find to help put food on the table. He graduated from McKeesport High School in 1940.
In Feb. 1941, after trying unsuccessfully to find a job that paid a living wage, he enlisted in the Army. He was assigned to the signal corps and shipped to the Philippines in July 1941. Dec. 8, (7 U.S. Calendar) 1941, the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor in Hawaii and airfields in Hawaii and the Philippines. Under the command of Douglas MacArthur, in Joe� ....

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