| has gloss | eng: Joseph P. Ebacher, born June 12, 1921,in Acushnet, Massachusetts, and died December 15, 1974 in Jacobs Prairie, Minnesota. Childhood spent in Amesbury, Massachusetts, son of French-Canadian immigrants, in a family including sisters; Theresa, Annette (died in childhood), Margaret, and Beatrice, and brothers; Lucien (Nick), Roger, and Raymond. He was known to family and friends as "Bill". At the age of 12 attended and graduated from the minor seminary of in Enfield, New Hampshire, and went onto get his bachelors degree from LaSalette College, as a French Major. Ebacher joined the Navy in World War II and was assigned to LSTs in Hawaii. At the conclusion of World War II he returned to civilian life, enrolled in Boston College, and there met Gloria Monahan. He was a contemporary at Boston College with both John F. Kennedy and Robert Kennedy. Gloria and Bill were married shortly thereafter. He graduated with a masters degree in Sociology, and went to work teaching French at Newton College of the Sacred Heart in Newton, Massachusetts. |
