Individual Details
Joseph Louis CRETENS
(7 Feb 1911 - 30 Mar 1993)
Events
| Birth | 7 Feb 1911 | Michigan, United States |  |  | |
| Marriage | 20 Aug 1931 | Michigan, United States - Margaret KENNEY | | ||
| Residence | 1935 | Gladstone, Delta, Michigan, United States | | ||
| Residence (family) | 1 Apr 1940 | 1410 No. 23rd Street, Escanaba, Delta, Michigan, United States - Margaret KENNEY | | | |
| Military | 5 May 1943 | | | ||
| Divorce | 20 Nov 1946 | Wayne County, Michigan, United States - Margaret KENNEY | | ||
| Residence | 1993 | Canton, Wayne, Michigan, United States | | ||
| Death | 30 Mar 1993 | Plymouth, Wayne, Michigan, United States | |
Families
| Spouse | Margaret KENNEY (1912 - ) |
| Father | Gustave John "Gussie" CRETENS (1888 - 1928) |
| Mother | Rachel Matilda SHAMPO (1890 - 1962) |
| Sibling | Anna Marie CRETENS (1913 - 2005) |
| Sibling | Margaret CRETENS (1912 - 2005) |
| Sibling | Albert Raymond CRETENS (1915 - 2001) |
| Sibling | Living |
| Sibling | Charles E. CRETENS (1917 - 1999) |
| Sibling | Louis G CRETENS (1922 - 1948) |
| Sibling | Edward L CRETENS (1921 - 2006) |
Notes
Birth
Age 19 in 1930.Residence (family)
Enumerated with this family were Joseph Creton, age 29, a sawyer in a veneer mill; and Margaret, age 26, a maid in a private home.https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1942-27886-3835-43?cc=2000219&wc=9RW8-DRH:790103601,792415101,792431101,951361901
Military
Enlisted 5 May 1943 at Kalamazoo, MichiganEndnotes
1. 1930 U.S. Federal Census, , population, Michigan, Delta, Gladstone, enumeration district (ED) 22, sheet 11A, image 21, dwelling 195, family 228, lines 4-11, Rachel Cretens and children; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=6224 : accessed 30 January 2015); National Archives and Records Administration.
2. "Michigan, Deaths, 1971-1996," database online, Ancestry.com (http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=3171 : accessed 31 January 2015), Joseph Louis Cretens; Michigan Department of Vital and Health Records.
3. Social Security Death Index, Joseph L. Cretens.
4. "Michigan, Divorce Records, 1897-1952," database online, Ancestry.com ( : accessed 31 January 2015), Joseph Cretens and Margaret Cretens; Michigan Department of Community Health, Division for Vital Records and Health Statistics, Lansing, Michigan; state file no. 82139734, docket no. 402831.
5. "Michigan, County Marriages, 1820-1940," digital images, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, FamilySearch.org (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1810350 : accessed 31 January 2015), GS Film number: 1783719, digital folder 4653775, image 00724: Joseph Cretens and Margaret Kenney.
6. 1940 U.S. Federal Census, , population schedule, Michigan, Delta, Escanaba, enumeration district (ED) 21-7, sheet 27B, image 54, household 522, lines 49-50, Joseph and Margaret Creton; digital images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/1940census : accessed 31 January 2015); National Archives and Records Administration.
7. 1940 U.S. Federal Census, , population schedule, Michigan, Delta, Escanaba, enumeration district (ED) 21-7, sheet 27B, image 54, household 522, lines 49-50, Joseph and Margaret Creton; digital images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/1940census : accessed 31 January 2015); National Archives and Records Administration.
8. Ancestry.com Operations Inc., 2005, "U.S. World War II Army Enlistment Records, 1938-1946," database online, Ancestry.com (http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=8939 : accessed 31 January 2015), Joseph L Cretens; National Archives and Records Administration.
9. "Michigan, Divorce Records, 1897-1952," database online, Ancestry.com ( : accessed 31 January 2015), Joseph Cretens and Margaret Cretens; Michigan Department of Community Health, Division for Vital Records and Health Statistics, Lansing, Michigan; state file no. 82139734, docket no. 402831.
10. "Michigan, Deaths, 1971-1996," database online, Ancestry.com (http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=3171 : accessed 31 January 2015), Joseph Louis Cretens; Michigan Department of Vital and Health Records.
11. "Michigan, Deaths, 1971-1996," database online, Ancestry.com (http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=3171 : accessed 31 January 2015), Joseph Louis Cretens; Michigan Department of Vital and Health Records.
12. Social Security Death Index, Joseph L. Cretens.