Paul Cleveland

Paul Marsh Cleveland, 94, died 8 Aug 2023 in Bee Branch, AR at his niece’s. Clara Ruth Bass’, home where he lived since 2018. He was born in Lake Placid, NY, on 12 Feb 1929 to Jesse Grover Cleveland (1887 – 1975) and Hazel Imogene Whipple (1897 – 1996), the 4th child of 5 children. His siblings were:

Clara Ruth Cleveland (Bass) 101 yrs old now

Grover Bernarr Cleveland (1924 – 2013) (THIS THE CORRECT SPELLING OF HIS MIDDLE NAME)

Alma Beatrice Cleveland (Wild) (1926 – 1973)

Gladys Muriel Cleveland (Steiner) (1930 – 1979)

He joined the U. S. Air Force in 1947, when he was 17 years old and was sent to post WWII Japan where he worked as radar watcher, materials acquisitionist and an orderly. It was in Shiriya Sai, Japan in 1950, where Paul met his wife, Keiko “Kay” Shimada (1934 – 2015), who was born and raised there. Because it was post WWII, Paul was forbidden to marry a Japanese woman at that time. He was forced to return back to the states and he worked for 3 years to get permission to marry Keiko.

He returned to Japan and they were married on 9 Nov 1954 in Tokyo. On 18 Feb, 1955, Paul, Keiko & their first daughter,

Yoko, departed from Yokohama, for the United States on the U. S. Navy ship General Daniel I. Sultan, arriving in San Francisco

on 28 Feb, 1955. He was an orderly in San Francisco, a custodial engineer at GE in NY, and a hotel clerk in Syracuse, NY and retired from the Postal Service in Bernhards Bay, NY in 1990. They had their home in Constantia, NY and had ten children: Yoko Shimada “Patricia” Cleveland, Ralph Grover Cleveland,Arthur Burgess Cleveland,Thomas Paul Cleveland,Orren Michael Cleveland,Grover Benson Cleveland,Roger Austin Cleveland,Paul Daniel Cleveland,Catherine Hazel Cleveland,Allen Timothy Cleveland.

He is survived by all of his children, 13 grandchildren and 12 great grandchildren.

There will be a graveside Military Memorial service at the Constantia Center Cemetery in Constantia Center, NY. Please contact Ruth Bass @ [email protected] or one of Paul’s children for the day and time as it has not been determined yet.

Honorariums should be sent to the Constantia Center Cemetery, C/O Neil Wood, 770 County Rd. 17, Bernhards Bay, NY 13028.