Mar 10, 2021 8:14 AM
John Robert Grab, a man of peace, died early today, Tuesday, March 9, 2021, at Indiana Square in White Township.
He passed away three days after his 93rd birthday.
John was a son of William L. and Helen Marie (McHale) Grab and was born March 6, 1928, in New Rochelle, N.Y.
He graduated in 1946 from Isaac E. Young High School, enlisted in the U.S. Army and served until late 1947 in the Company F, 325 th Infantry, Army of Occupation keeping the peace in post- World War II Italy. He was awarded the World War II Victory Medal.
John collected tolls for eight years for the New England Expressway and was a police officer for four years before he followed his father’s lead and served for 27 years with the New Rochelle Fire Department.