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U.S. World War II Army Enlistment Records, 1938-1946 Record
about Basil R Rhodes
Name: Basil R Rhodes
Birth Year: 1910
Race: White, citizen
Nativity State or Country: West Virginia
State: West Virginia
Enlistment Date: 22 Apr 1944
Enlistment State: Indiana
Enlistment City: Fort Benjamin Harrison
Branch: No branch assignment
Branch Code: No branch assignment
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: Selectees (Enlisted Men)
Source: Civil Life
Education: 1 year of high school
Civil Occupation: Physical Therapy Technician or Chain Store Manager
Marital Status: Married
Height: 00
Weight: 000
SSDI
Name: Basil R. Rhodes SSN: 235-03-0742 Last Residence: 25312 Charleston, Kanawha, West Virginia, United States of America Born: 26 Apr 1910 Died: 1 Jul 1994 State (Year) SSN issued: West Virginia (Before 1951 )
Basil Ray Rhodes 84 of Charleston
Died July 1, 1994 at St. Francis Hospital after a long illness. He was a former employee of Moese Cadillac with 40 years' service and meat manager for the Kroger Co. with 25 years service. He was an Army veteran of WWII and a Methodist and attended United Gospel Mission, Charleston.
Surviving, wife, Rada Lanham Rhodes, daughter Miriam Rhodes of Charleston.
Service will be 1 p.m. Monday at Long-Fisher Funeral Home, Charleston with Rev. Clarence Edens officiating. Burial will be in Floral Hills Gardens of Memories, Pocatalico.
Basil Ray Rhodes 84 of Charleston
Died July 1, 1994 at St. Francis Hospital after a long illness. He was a former employee of Moese Cadillac with 40 years' service and meat manager for the Kroger Co. with 25 years service. He was an Army veteran of WWII and a Methodist and attended United Gospel Mission, Charleston.
Surviving, wife, Rada Lanham Rhodes, daughter Miriam Rhodes of Charleston.
Service will be 1 p.m. Monday at Long-Fisher Funeral Home, Charleston with Rev. Clarence Edens officiating. Burial will be in Floral Hills Gardens of Memories, Pocatalico.
Stalwart Salesmen Engineer Model Careers 4/26/1990
Basil Rhodes can't say exactly how many cars he sold over the years. "But if you put them all in one fireld, it would take one helluva field. It will take time to check his notebooks. "I've got a record of every car I've sold since 1954."
The stalwart salesmen of Moes Auto Mall probably has sold enough General Motors vehicles to reach from here to Detroit. "One year I sold 258 cars" said Rhodes, who worked through four dealerships on the Washington Street lot. "Many year I sold in excess of 200".
General Motors awards "professional sales master" plaques to those who sell at least 100 new cards a year. "I've had that for about 30 years," Galisy said Rhodes put the brakes on his 40 year car career today, his 80th birthday. It took a stroke, heart attack and a stern order from his doctor to get him to quit. The grand old man of Moes Cadillact-Buick-Pontiac-GMC Truck Inc., (whew) plans to stick around for a while longer to enjoy retirement, thought after nearly 4 decades on the showroom floor, Rhodes could tell rookies a thing or two about the art of selling cars. That is, if the rookies stayed long enough to listen. "I've seen hundreds of them come and go since I've been here," he said.
Rhodes says the secret ot selling is perserverance. "I never give up. Whenever you talk to a customer, you get all the information you can on that customer and stay in contact until he or she has bought from you or somebody else." "First, you sell yourself. Secondly, you sell you product. I think I have excelled in all branches of it. As long as I was there, they would buy from no one but me."
From fins and fender skirts to sun roofs, rubber bumpers and retractable headlights, Rhodes has sold his way through a maze of change. "If people had told me when I first started that they'd change this and that, make a car look this way and that way, I would have told them they were crazy as hell." Even customers have changed, he said "They're more educated in buying cars. Cars are better today and they're a lot more complicated. Used to be you'd sell a man a car and he ask for the shop manual so he could change the oil and the plugs himself. You got to go to college now to do that. That got a machine over here that cost about $37,000. You plug it in and it tells you what your problems are, but you got to have somebody who know how to read it and somebody who knows how to work on it."
Rhodes was in the restaurant business so long ago it hardly matters. "I've enjoyed selling cars. It's been a very interesting experience and I've made a world of friends. I hate to leave them". "The car business has been good to me physically, mentally and financially," he added. "I just wish I started in it a few years earlier."
Basil Ray Rhodes
Birth: Apr. 26, 1910
Jackson County
West Virginia, USA
Death: Jul. 1, 1994
Charleston
Kanawha County
West Virginia, USA
Sunday Gazette-Mail [WV] July 3, 1994
Basil Ray Rhodes, 84, of Charleston, died July 1, 1994 at St. Francis Hospital after a long illness.
He was a former employee of Moses Cadillac with 20 years service and meat manager for the Kroger Co. with 25 years service. He was an Army veteran of World War II and a Methodist and attended United Gospel Mission, Charleston.
Surviving: wife, Rada Lanham Rhodes; daughter, Miriam Rhodes of Charleston.
Service will be 1 p.m. Monday at Long-Fisher Funeral Home, Charleston, with the Rev. Clarence Edens officiating. Burial will be in Floral Hills Gardens of Memories, Pocatalico. Friends may call from 7 to 9 p.m. today at the funeral home.
Family links:
Parents:
Virgil Walker Rhodes (1889 - 1958)
Mary Florence Tolley Rhodes (1883 - 1915)
Spouse:
Rada Gladys Lanham Rhodes (1907 - 1996)*
Children:
Florence Marion Rhodes Counts (1934 - 2013)*
*Calculated relationship
Burial:
Floral Hills Garden of Memories Cemetery
Sissonville
Kanawha County
West Virginia, USA
Created by: Pj
Record added: Aug 05, 2013
Find A Grave Memorial# 114952204
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West Virginia Pioneers
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