Marriage Certificate #6108

Raymond was known by three aliases. He travelled a lot from Buffalo to Fairport, New York, which is right outside Buffalo for work. He is understood to have had relationships between the two towns.

I am told by his grand daughter Kim that he was married 8 times in total. He is known to have been married to Marion Null at the time of his death in 1976.
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We can see him in 1930 living at Buffalo, Erie, New York, age 39, married, living as a 'roomer' living at the house of James and Gertrude Chambers and their two children. He was working as an Iron Woker at a Steel Plant. There was no sign of any wife living with him. It states he immigrated into the US in 1902.

Loretta had a sister Emily Bauer who was born in around 1896. She married a man named George Simpson and then later, Frederick Ernst.

From the NARA Archival Database:

ARMY SERIAL NUMBER 12097908
Name: Robert L Knibbs
Birth Year: 1924
Race: White, citizen
Nativity State or Country: New York
State: New York
County or City: Erie
Enlistment Date: 29 Jun 1942
Enlistment State: New York
Enlistment City: Buffalo
Branch: Air Corps
Branch Code: Air Corps
Grade: Private
Grade Code: Private
Term of Enlistment: Enlistment for the duration of the War or other emergency, plus six months, subject to the discretion of the President or otherwise according to law
Component: Army of the United States - includes the following: Voluntary enlistments effective December 8, 1941 and thereafter; One year enlistments of National Guardsman whose State enlistment expires while in the Federal Service; Officers appointed in the Army of
Source: Civil Life
Education: Grammar school
Marital Status: Single, without dependents
Height: 69
Weight: 131
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Robert served in the 509th Parachute Infantry Regiment who's motto is "ALL THE WAY and was the most decorated paratroop unit of WWII. He was killed in North Africa during WWII and is buried at the North African American Cemetery, Carthage, Tunisia, Plot I Row 19, Grave 2.

The North Africa American Cemetery and Memorial is the resting place of 2841 Americans killed in the fight against Axis.
By mid-1942 it had become apparent that there would be no cross-channel attack by the Allies of the European mainland. At Churchill’s urging, the United States and British troops proceeded with an alternative assault - that of North Africa and General Erwin Rommel’s Africa Corps. Numbering about 100,000, the German and Italian forces controlled the northern tier of the African continent, from Tunisia to Egypt.
Once the allied offensive began, a 150,000-strong German reinforcement, coming across the Mediterranean from Sicily, stopped the Allied thrust in its tracks, most notably, for the Americans, at Kasserine Pass in west-central Tunisia - the first major engagement of U.S. troops against Axis forces.
On the outskirts of a picturesque whitewashed village set high on a cliff overlooking the sea a few miles north of Tunis lies an American cemetery - its eucalyptus laden grounds serving as the resting place of 2,841 American military dead - 39 percent of the burials originally made in North Africa and Iran. The 27-acre graveyard also contains a limestone wall with the names of 3,724 missing.