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Petraeus was born in Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York, the son of Miriam Sweet (née Howell; 1912–1991), a librarian, and Sixtus Petraeus (1915–2008), a sea captain. His father was a Dutch merchant mariner who emigrated to the United States at the start of World War II, [26] from Franeker , the Netherlands , [27] [28] and his mother was ...
May 3, 2022 · June 19, 2008 (92) Santa Clarita, Los Angeles, CA, United States. Place of Burial: East Bangor, Northampton, Pennsylvania, United States. Immediate Family: Son of Lodewijk Jans Petraeus and Jacobje Jans de Jong. Husband of Miriam Sweet Howell. Father of Private and David Petraeus, Director of the CIA. Brother of Private and Private.
- Franeker, Friesland
- September 23, 1915
When Sixtus Petraeus was born on 23 September 1915, in Franeker, Friesland, Netherlands, his father, Lodewijk Petraeus, was 27 and his mother, Jacobje DeJong, was 24. He lived in Valencia, Santa Cruz, California, United States for about 3 years. He died on 19 June 2008, in Valencia, Santa Clarita, Los Angeles, California, United States, at the ...
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General Petraeus grew up in a modest Cape Cod-style tract house with his sister, Carol Jean, and parents, Miriam and Sixtus. Though Miriam Petraeus died many years ago, Sixtus Petraeus, a Dutch ...
The answer to that question now largely falls to Petraeus, the son of a Dutch sea captain who sailed into New York just as World War II was breaking out. Sixtus Petraeus commanded a Liberty ship during the war, plying the icy and treacherous waters to the Soviet port of Murmansk.
Mar 30, 2010 · Some of Petraeus’s other old friends remember Sixtus at his son’s baseball games, high in the bleachers, shouting Dutch-flavored encouragement to his American boy on the pitcher’s mound ...
General Petraeus was born on November 7, 1952 to Dutch American parents. His father, Sixtus, was a captain in the Navy and immigrated to the United States following the Second World War. Petraeus was raised in Cornwall on Hudson, New York, not far from the West Point Military Academy, where he would get his initial military training.
