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Edgefield veteran recalls world war service and lifelong partnership
The article profiles WWII veteran Bostick of Edgefield whose hard early years included sharecropping debts and work with mules. He served in Italy with the 92nd Signal Co, earned a Purple Heart after a 1945 land mine injury, and later married Mary Hiley in 1945. The couple shared 50 years of marriage, travel, and mutual care after Mary’s 1998 brain aneurysm. Drummings, a caregiver, notes his resilience and ongoing bonds with Cincinnati family and Edgefield connections.
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Bostick
Edgefield
Cincinnati
Augusta
U.S. Army
Sam
Mary Hiley
Mary
United States
General Motors
Veteran’s Hospital
New York
Chicago
California
Hawaii
Jamaica
Drummings
Aiken
New Ellenton
Teddy Kulmala
Andrew Bostick
Department of Veterans Affairs
Obama