About
Loomis Trudeau, the son of William and Josephine (Vivier) Trudeau, was born on October 25, 1898, in North Adams, Massachusetts. Around 1907, William and Josephine moved to Schenectady's Bellevue area with their nine children, and not long after, they welcomed their tenth child. On December 8, 1908, tragedy hit the Trudeau family when William was killed by a train while going to work. Josephine never remarried and was left to raise the ten children on her own.
Loomis enlisted in the United States Navy on May 1, 1917. At the time of entering the service he was employed in the standardizing laboratory of the General Electric Company. Shortly after his enlistment, he became ill with pneumonia and was hospitalized for many months.
His first trip across seas was on the USS Lake Moor, and he held the rank of Fireman Third Class. On the night of April 11, 1918, the USS Lake Moor was torpedoed by the German Submarine UB-73 and sank three miles off Corsewall Light, Scotland. There were only seventeen survivors, and Loomis was never found. He is remembered at the Brookwood American Cemetery and Memorial, England.
Sources: The Schenectady Gazette, Find A Grave, Ancestry