LANSING, Mich. (WLNS) — Gabriel Michel, a World Struggle II veteran, was honored because the Livingston County Veterans Council’s Veteran of the Month for November at an occasion in Howell Tuesday night.
Michel was born in 1923 in Mexico, in the course of the Mexican Revolution. His household then moved to El Paso, Texas, the place, amongst 12 siblings, Michel graduated from Cathedral Excessive Faculty and attended school for a time earlier than becoming a member of the U.S. Navy.
He served on the usRichman C/9 in World Struggle II between 1943 and 1945 within the Aleutian Islands. Afterward, he studied electrical and digital engineering and served eight years within the Air Pressure Reserves from 1951 to 1959. He then began a enterprise, and he and his spouse Peggie raised 15 youngsters.