Tomas Querer inherited a small grocery shop at an early age. He was fifteen when he heard of the news that his uncle had deceased and had left him the store in a small village at the foot of the Alps. Reluctant he accepted this calling and runned the place with moderate success for 3 years. Until one night, in a mood of self-loathing, he stole a lottery ticket from his own store. To his surprise he won a nice sum of money which sufficed for buying a passage to the United States. Arriving there shortly before WW II he enlisted in the army out of a feeling of guilt for having won by stealing from himself.
In 1942 he was sent to Europe, serving in the tanker “Destroyer”. He was then transported to the 773rd battalion in General Patton’s 3rd army. He was stationed, fought or campaigned in Scotland, England, Wales, France (Normandy Invasion), Luxembourg, Belgium, Germany (Battle of the Bulge) and Occupational Forces in Czechoslovakia after the end of the war. He was one of the thousands of men shipped home on the Queen Mary.
3 years after his return he died of heart failure. He received an honorary burial at Interment Forrest Lawn-Covina California.