[courtesy of "Jimmy McC"]
Grave marker for Leon B. Weiner and spouse in Plot: 2J,
Site 524, Long Island National Cemetery, East Farmingdale (Suffolk
county), New York.
Leon enlisted in the Army at New York
City, NY on 16 May 1942 and was assigned to Hq 2nd, 508th PIR.
Pvt Weiner was transferred to the
541st PIR on 27 November 1943. However, on 11 July 1944, he was
transferred from Hq 9th Air Force to Service Company, 508th PIR.
He was transferred to Company E on 5
March 1945 and then back to Service Company on 2 April.
 Leon's
updated draft record shows that he was honorably discharged on 19
December 1945.
 On
21 August 1962, Leon sailed on the USAT General H B Freeman from
Seattle, WA to Yokohama, Japan. His expected stay overseas was two
years.
 Those
two years were productive as on 10 December 1954, Leon's wife Hiroko
(nee Yohoo) Weiner and their daughter Ann Eleanor Weiner, arrived in
Honolulu from Yokohama on the SS President Cleveland. Note that
the eleven women shown on the page were all of Japanese ancestry.
Two
held American citizenship while a third was Columbian.
 Although
Hiroko was traveling under a Japanese passport, Eleanor, despite being
born in Japan, is notated as a U.S. citizen (USC), a status
automatically conferred as she was the child of a U.S. citizen.
Leon died at age 40 in 1963. Hiroko never remarried and died in
2018 at the age of 88 and is buried with Leon.. |
