John Andrew YACKUBOSKEY

1920 - 2007  (86 years)

• Name	John Andrew YACKUBOSKEY
  birth2 (conflicting)	1918	Indiana Co, PA   [1]
  	John's 1941 Army enlistment record and his Department of Veterans Affairs death file note his birth year as 1918. His military grave stone, also, notes this as his birth year.
  Birth	27 Oct 1920  [2]
  Gender	Male
  WWII	1939 - 1945  [1, 3]
  	John enlisted in the U.S. Army on 5 December 1939. He re-uped as a Private in the Infantry at Indiana, Pennsylvania on 17 February 1941. According to his military grave marker, he received a Purple Heart while serving in the 513th Parachute Infantry Regiment, a regiment of the 17th Airborne Division of the United States Army. The regiment participated in the latter stages of the Battle of the Bulge and parachuted into Germany in Operation Varsity. John was honorably discharged on 23 September 1945.
  Death	27 Jul 2007	Indiana, Indiana Co, PA   [2, 4]
  	His last residence was Indiana, Pennsylvania. John died at Indiana Regional Medical Center in Indiana, Pennsylvania on 27 July 2007.
  Burial	Clymer, Indiana Co, PA   [5]
  	His remains were interred at Church of the Resurrection Cemetery in Clymer, Pennsylvania.
  Person ID	I64359	mason
  Last Modified	22 Jul 2026

  
  

  Family	Eleanor Elizabeth Redford KERSH,   b. 30 May 1923, Atlanta, Fulton Co, GA d. 31 Jan 2014 (Age 90 years)
  Marriage	17 Nov 1943  [6]
  	The couple married on 17 November 1943.
  Children	1. Donna Celeste YACKUBOSKEY,   b. 28 Sep 1944, Dahlonega, Lumpkin Co, GA d. 11 Sep 2010 (Age 65 years)   2. Michael YACKUBOSKEY   3. Mary YACKUBOSKEY   4. Juanita Ann YACKUBOSKEY   5. Christina YACKUBOSKEY   6. Theresa YACKUBOSKEY   7. Karen YACKUBOSKEY   8. Betty Jo YACKUBOSKEY   9. John David YACKUBOSKEY,   b. 19 Dec 1960   d. 9 Aug 2004 (Age 43 years)   10. Diane YACKUBOSKEY
  Family ID	F7705	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	22 Jul 2026

  
  

• Sources

  [S2614] John A. Yackuboskey. WW II Army enlistment record (1941). [S2612] John Yackuboskey. SSDI. Ancestry.com. [S2615] John Yackuboskey, U.S. Dept. of Veterans Affairs BIRLS Death File, 1850-2010. [S2613] John A. Yackuboskey obituary, The Indiana Gazette, (Indiana, PA) 30 July 2007. [S2084] Find A Grave, online (http://www.findagrave.com). John A. Yackuboskey interment, Church of the Resurrection Cemetery, Clymer PA; downloaded 11 June 2014. [S2608] Elizabeth R. Yackuboskey obituary, Rairigh-Bence Funeral Home, Clymer, PA, January 2014.