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Bruce Domm Currie was born April 17, 1880 in Santa Barbara d'Oeste, Brazil. He was 21 when he arrived at Ellis Island on May 25, 1901. As an American citizen he was "discharged on the pier." Bruce was never married. In January 1937 he was living in Port Arthur, Texas and had been working at the Texas Can Company for 12 years. On January 15 he got off a streetcar and was hit by an automobile; his skull and right leg were badly broken, and he died on January 20 at St. Mary's Hospital in Port Arthur. He is buried near his parents in Greenlawn Cemetery, Port Arthur. Photo of Bruce from newspaper obituary. |
| Ellis Island record of Bruce Currie's return to America aboard the Hevelius. His occupation is listed as "carpenter". | ![]() |
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Von Rehder Currie worked for Texaco in Houston for 35 years. He was a member of Gray Lodge No. 329, A.F. and A.M., Ruthven Commandery No. 2, Knights Templar, and Arabia Temple Shrine. He had a fishing cabin on Bastrop Bayou near Angleton, Texas. He apparently had a heart attack and fell overboard, or drowned while fishing there in his boat in 1940. He left a widow, Clara Brown Currie. |
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Von Rehder's grave in Houston, Texas |