![]() ![]() Jerold was very active throughout his life. His career landed at Utah Valley Hospital, where he was eventually made the director of public relations for Intermountain Healthcare. ![]() His degree provided him many opportunities, working at universities in Chicago, Alaska and Utah. Jerold was a writer by nature and eventually earned his master’s degree in journalism. Jerold had an adventurous spirit, wanting to “suck the marrow out of life.” He worked many jobs to put himself through school and support his young family. A fond memory of his children is standing on his back as he did one-arm pushups. He and his father worked the fields together, having only horses as their “horsepower.” Farm work made him strong early, something that continued throughout his life. He was raised on his father’s sugar beet farm and was instilled with a fervent value of hard work.Īs a young boy, Jerold took on his elder brothers’ chores on the farm when they were called to serve as Marines in World War II. Jerold was born in his grandmother’s home in Aurora, Utah, to Cline and Rita Sorensen on Aug. Jerold Glen Sorensen passed away of natural causes on Nov. Military honors will be provided by the American Legion.Īrrangements have been entrusted to the care of Serenity Funeral Home of Southern Utah, 43.įor condolences, full obituary and funeral listings please visit Serenity Funeral Home online. ![]() A graveside service in Al’s honor will be held on Monday, Dec.Thank you Pa and thank you for your daughter that made me part of your family. His step is slower and he may not be with us much longer, I don’t have the same light in my eye when I tell his story as he had over these many years when I would encourage him to tell it, I have more of a tear in thinking what a brave man went through when he was called on by his country. A four-day trip of walking and sometimes riding got them to a town where they were evacuated back to their base in Italy. When he came down, he landed among a half dozen buildings and older women and children who picked up his chute and took him inside.Īfter dark some men came and escorted him across the mountain to a village and reunited him with the rest of his crew. Al said it seemed like forever for his chute to open. As nightfall approached, the pilot turned the plane over the mountains of Yugoslovia and gave the order to bail out. On Pa’s plane there was the pilot, engineer and assistant engineer with him, and the pilot turned the plane on a heading to Italy. Almost immediately the navigator, nose gunner and bombardier bailed out over target and the bombardier was killed on the way down, the other two were captured. They remained at altitude until they dropped their bombs but immediately radioed the deputy lead that they could not maintain altitude and had to drop out of formation.Īs their plane was dropping down the deputy lead slid into position too soon and came down on their number one engine cutting the deputy lead plane in two and it went down killing all on board. Al’s plane was the lead plane on this mission and as they neared the target they lost three super-chargers on their engines. On that day he was on his 25th mission over Germany, the number that many flight crews never reached. 17, 1944, remains young in his thoughts.Īlbert was a 19-year-old belly turret gunner on a B-24 bomber. He is along in years, he will be 94 in April 2019, but that day of Dec. Family calls him Papa, Dad, Grandpa, Great Grandpa or Uncle. For the past 50 some years I have called him Pa, or Pa-in-law. His name is Albert, but over the years I have heard many call him by his nickname Al. In addition he has four grandchildren, nine great-grandchildren and three great-great-grandchildren. George, Utah.Īlbert is survived by three brothers, Joe Decaria, Victor Decaria and Jess Decaria two sisters, Mary Decaria and Teresa Decaria a son Stephen Decaria and a daughter Teena Moore. He then married Deanna Shelton and lived in Heyburn until 2011 when they moved to St. When he came home he married Donna Houser and they later divorced.Īlbert moved from Ogden, Utah, to Heyburn, Idaho, in 1965 where he established his own business in the housing industry. He graduated from Ogden High School and joined the Army Air Corps during World War II. ![]() Albert Decaria was born April 25, 1925, to Dominick Decaria and Assuntina (Villilla) Decaria in Ogden, Utah. ![]()
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