Uncle Harry Sessler ~ 1944

Harry Elliott Sessler was born 31 July 1926 in Pratt, Pratt, Kansas. He was the 2nd of six children (1st of 4 sons) born to Warren Martin Sessler and Beulah Maybelle Boaz Sessler. He graduated from Hugoton High School in the spring of 1944 as class Valedictorian. 

Harry served in the United States Marine Corp during World War II and enlisted on 18 Oct 1944 at Hugoton, Stevens, Kansas - Board #1; Service #950614; Registered Order #10305.  

He fought in the South Pacific and witnessed the deaths of his closest buddies. After the war he suffered from Post War Traumatic Stress and never fully recovered from it. 

He attended college in Stockton California but left after the first semester and then worked in Colorado on a bridge building job. He fell from the top of the bridge and suffered a head injury. He was mentally handicapped afterwards, partially because of the fall and partially because of his experiences in the war and post-war from the electric shock treatments he received in the Veterans Hospital. 

Harry lived with his parents until their deaths and then spent the remainder of his life in rest homes. He never married.