![]() When his mother discovered his plans, he was sent back home. ![]() With the help of his father, he made it to boot camp at Great Lakes. In August 1942, at age 15, he decided to enlist in the U.S. Paul High School band, and after school he worked at the National Lead Factory. Ralph learned to play the piano and also played the bass horn in the St. Ralph’s older brother died of scarlet fever at the age of seven. His father was legally blind and disabled, and Ralph and his younger brother were responsible for the use of mules to plow the fields, harvesting of crops and caring for the stock. ![]() Ralph was the second of five children, raised on a small truck farm in Minnesota. ![]() He died suddenly at home in Oak Harbor on Sunday, Feb. Ralph Vernon “Digger” O’Dell was born on April 19, 1927, in St. ![]()
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