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Born in Brussels, Belgium in 1905, at a young age Joseph Meert and his family immigrated to Kansas City, Kansas. His father found work as a carpenter in the Armstrong Station Repair Yards of the Union Pacific Railroad. While Meert had aspirations to attend college after high school his father rather supported the practical route of learning a skilled trade. Following his father’s orders after completing his high school education he asked to become a painter. His father then found a position for Joseph as an apprentice for a local painter. After the local painter learned of Meert’s interest in …