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Edward "Joe" Joseph Jr. Creager (son of Edward "Ed" Joseph Sr. Creager and Margaret Frances "Peg" Donley) was born August 25, 1934 in Yellow Springs, Greene County, Ohio, and died August 16, 1984 in Merrimack, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire. He married Anita Lorraine Harnois.

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Joe was born to Peg Donley Creager, who died from childbirth infection. He and his father lived with his maternal grandparents, until his father remarried. He was then treated as her own by Marge Borchers Creager, but never legally adopted. They lived in Cincinnati, Ohio with Joe's two half-sisters, Janet and Martha. He was a "holy terror" as a child, getting into much trouble, and spending summers at his grandparents' farm with his cousins. He entered St. Gregory's Catholic seminary, but after 2 years, learned this was not the life for him, and left to attend Elder High School. After graduation, he left to study engineering at the Michigan School of Mining and Technology, but soon contracted the Asian Flu, during its first attack in America. After six weeks illness, he went home without returning to school, and joined the US Navy. He became an electronics technician, being stationed at the Great Lakes Training Center, Illinois, and San Diego, California, with cruises to Panama and New Orleans (for Mardi Gras). After discharge, he returned to Cincinnati, entering Xavier University. He joined the sailing club, meeting his future wife, Anita Harnois, who attended the University of Cincinnati.
He was a dedicated Catholic and at one point, he and Anita joined the Third Order of St. Dominic, but they decided not to take their vows. He was a member of Our Lady of Mercy Church in Merrimack.
After their marriage, which gave them eight children, Joe worked for Philco as a technical representative at Fort Bliss, El Paso, Texas (1 year). Then to Syracuse, NY, working for General Electric as a technical writer for two years. Then on to Nashua and Merrimack, NH working first for Sanders Associates, then Raytheon Corp., then Kollsman Instruments, all as a technical writer. For a 3 year period, when work was hard to find, he pumped gas, sold insurance, tended bar, sold printing materials and anything else to keep the family going. He went back to school nights to complete his business degree from New Hampshire College. During this time, he learned to love the outdoors, with family camping and then as a hiker. He joined the Appalachian Mountain Club, becoming an expert in bushwacking and winter mountaineering. He was an all-season hike leader, and the first person to complete the 4000 footers in winter. He had a dream to hike the full Appalachinan Trail from Georgia to Maine, but was not able to do so. He later went on to get an MBA also from NH College, completing this just before his death.
In March 1984, he learned he had esophageal cancer, with surgery in May. He died in August of that year, after taking a 3 week trip with his wife, to Germany to visit Susan, Their daughter, who was stationed there. He planned his own funeral, picking out the casket and gravesite (wanted to watch the trees on the side). He died only after his son, Steve, got home from college to visit him and after the priest visited in the morning. Then he said "it's OK now" and stopped breathing.
Graduated June 1953, Elder High School, Cincinnati, Ohio
BS in Business: NH College, Manchester, NH
MBA: May 1984, NH College, Manchester, NH
US Navy: 1953 - 1957, Korean Conflict - Stayed in US


More About Edward "Joe" Joseph Jr. Creager:
Burial: Unknown, Last Rest Cemetery, Merrimack, New Hampshire.
First Communion: May 10, 1942, Corpus Christi Church, Dayton, Ohio.

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