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By: Amanda
1/4/06
Steven Robert Nervo
was born on May 18,
1911 in Pakrata Yugoslavia! He came
to Summit County Ohio in 1919 where he lived all his life. He was the owner
of Imreks Meats. He was also a member of the
Knights of Columbus, and a member of St. Matthew’s Church. He had eleven
brothers. Their names were Peter, Joseph, Nick, Rudolph, John, Albert, he had three sisters their names are Mary,
Kedra, Mildred, and Betty. He married Teresa Tothy
on September
5th 1935. They had three children. Their
names are Robert, Marilyn, and Margaret.
After he was married he was drafted into the war. He was drafted into the U.S. Army on March 20 1944 in Ft
Benn, Harrison, Ind. He was a U.S.
citizen. The war had been going on just a little while before he was drafted.
During his training he was trained to go and fight and translate for the
soldiers. He could speak six different languages, and that really helped the
soldiers understand what some of the people were even talking about. He never
went to high school or collage, but had 7 years of grade school. When he entered the War he had brown eyes,
black hair, height 5 feet 7 ˝, his weight was 164 pounds. He was in the army
for one year eight months and twenty-six days. His traveling fee was
$19.50. The total of every thing was
$141.10. He made lots of friends in the war. While he was in the war he was
shot, but he recovered. He was standing next to a priest and the priest got
shot. Stephen took the cross that was hanging on his neck and brought it back
with him, and gave it to his son Robert.
Robert got older and he and his wife moved into an apartment (after
all of the children moved out) his wife had lost one of her legs before they
moved into this new apartment. They came over to his son’s house every
Christmas and had Christmas with his son and their children and their
children. He had many grand children
and great-grandchildren.
He loved to have his great- grandchildren over. One day when he had his grand children over
he was giving these small red what he thought was candy, but the grand
children asked him are you sure that this is candy? He told that he wasn’t
sure but, to him it tastes like candy. After the children left his wife some
and she realized that it wasn’t candy at all it was strawberry cough
drops. When they to old to live by
themselves they moved a place where they could live on their, but daily a nurse would come
in and check to make sure that everything was ok. When they lived their, he would cook for
them and they would sit down together and play cards. Some times the great
–grand children would come and they would sing Christmas carols to them just
to be a nice loving family. He passed
away on Friday,
July 21, 2000 at the Akron City Hospital. Mr. Nervo was 89 years old when he died.
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