CMM Harold G. Noerenberg
1903 – 1967
USNR
WWII
Harold George Noerenberg was born October 23, 1903 in Winnetka, to William A. and Caroline Muffet Noerenberg.
On May 7,1927, he married Mildred C. West in Highland Park; they raised three children.
Noerenberg and his family moved west to Washington and Montana in the 1930’s and early 1940’s where he pursued engineering roles in mining and oil, but returned to Illinois, where he enlisted in the U.S. Naval Reserve on November 25, 1942 in Chicago.
He was attached to the Construction Battalion Detachment 1007, Command, a specialized Seabee unit whose principal use was the handling, assembling, launching, and placing of pontoon causeways from June 9, 1943 to September 20, 1945, when the Command was deactivated. He continued in an active-duty capacity with other USN units as a Chief Machinist’s Mate until May 23, 1946 when he was honorably discharged.
By 1950, Norenberg was an auto mechanic in Ela Township. He spent his last 13 years of work as a foreman at Allis Chalmers plant in Deerfield.
He was a member of the Lake Zurich American Legion Post.
Chief Machinist’s Mate Harold Noerenberg suffered a tragic death of asphyxiation along with wife, in their vacation trailer in Homestead, Florida. He is buried with wife in Barrington’s Evergreen Cemetery.
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Courtesy of Signal Hill Chapter, National Society Daughters of the American Revolution.