|
 Lionel
O. Frigo [19 Sep 1920 - Mar 1986], was a member of E
Company. He retired as a Lt. Col and lived in Gulf Breeze,
FL at the time of his death.
He now rests in Arlington
National Cemetery's Section 30, Grave 1086
(courtesy of Dick O'Donnell,)
 Confusion
of Names?
The birth certificate for the man we know as
Lionel O. Frigo had his given names reversed as "Orville Lionel"
on this official record.
Whether it is a clerical error or if he reversed them to use the
first name of Lionel as a preference, we may never know.
Note also the handwritten notation of "Frigault" indicating the
original family name in French. Frigo's mother was French
Canadian by birth and his father was descended from that same
stock with origins in New Brunswick, Canada. The spelling
was Anglicized at some point but the pronunciation is about the
same.
 
 Capt
Frigo Reports
For Army Duty Here Capt Lionel O Friga
[sic] formerly of Worchester [sic[, Mass. has reported to the Lexington office of Army Reserve Affairs for duty as unit instructor of the newly activated 100
Airborne division Lt Col Thomas J Quinn commander announced yesterday He served during the war with the 508th parachute Infantry regiment of the 82nd Airborne division in the European theater
[The Lexington Herald, Lexington, KY, 23 Jan 1947, Thu, Page 3[
 
Three years later, the 1950
edition of the Clarksville, TN city directory shows Lionel and
his wife Harriett living in unit L4 of the Maple Hills
apartments. His employer is shown as "USA", i.e., U.S.
Army.
This address is 12 miles south of Fort
Campbell's Gate 1 which is on the south, or Kentucky-side of the
post which straddles the Kentucky-Tennessee border. The
apartments are a short walk from a train station which may have
afforded easy commuting if he had not already purchased an
automobile.
Lionel retired as a Lt. Colonel, probably in
the mid-1960s. Beginning as early as 1977 he lived in Gull
Breeze, Florida along the waterside and later moved inland to
Cantonment, Florida where he enjoyed his final years. |
