Christmas News From Batavia Towne News
Local notices recount Christmas gatherings and military family updates. Radar Man Oliver Anderson, stationed in New Guinea, mentions Batavia Body trucks in use with his unit. Brothers in service aboard ships and in France are noted along with multiple home visits by relatives and friends during the holiday season.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oliver Anderson
Oscar Anderson
First Street
U. S. Navy
Batavia
Anderson
New Guinea
Chester Arthur Anderson
Eric
Sea Bees
New Caledonia
Clifford Carney
Michigan State College
East Lansing
Mich
Ed Carney
Chicago
Axel Johnson
Pauline
South Jefferson Street
Corp. Waller Johnson
France
Paris
Corp. Johnson
Faith Nelson
Lawrence College
Appleton
Wis
Harold Primm
Dianne
Athens
Frank Olson
South Mallory Avenue
Emanuel Benson
St. Charles
Gail Mullen
University of Illinois
Ann
Lillian Wagner
Carl N. More
R. R. Doty
Springstreet
Albert Doty
Francis J. Doty
Belgium
Ernest Olson
South Jefferosn Street
Pat
Fred le Verty
Geneva
Christena Kouzes
Michael Kouzes
North River Street
Eugene Foster
Merchant Marine
Charles Foster
Aurora
Elsie May Evans
Ethel Day
Oklahoma
George Benski
College Street
Betty Jo
Ernie F. Kreitz
Frank J. Kreitz
North Ohio Street
Douglas Hoover
Stephen Hoover
Richard Borg
Wm. C. Spencer
Pfc
James Lundin
Ernest Lundin
Mary
Camp Cooke
Calif
Dorothy Kathryn Patterman
Leon Feldott
Leo Feldott
Henry Patterman
Warrenville
Kenneth Oleson
Carl Oleson
Panama City
Fla
Moody Field
Oleson
Dale Taylor
Des Plaines
Edward Peterson
Barbara
J.g
Gordon Wenberg
Martin Johnson
West Wilson Street
Ernest Johnson
Camp
J. T. Robinson
Little Rock
Ark
A. R. Leifheit
H. D. Newcomer
Hannah Murray
Dixon, Il
E. H. Leifheit
Batavia Herald
Arnold Larson
Sgt
Alvin Sager
Tavia Herald
Ethel Mae Johnson
Batavia High School
Bert Johnson
B. B. Paddock
Elizabeth Seufert
Middletown
Conn
Arthur Johnson
Mary Engstrom
Mallory Avenue
First Methodist Church
G. A. Doolittle
Robert J. Howard
Robert James
Ft. Knox
Robert Gustafson
West Chicago
Dick Higgins
Maywood
David Olson
John Anderson
Maple Park
Helen Hokonson
Ernest Larson
This City
Otto Larson
Olson
Clements
St. Joseph’s Hospital
Elgin
Ora Mead
War Year Reflections Highlight Batavia Community
The 1944 year in Batavia is reviewed with praise for war production, home front efforts, and war bond drives. Leyte’s occupation is noted as a turning point, and calls for a peaceful postwar world underscore community resolve. Local social notes honor students, families, and military personnel with holiday updates and gatherings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
the Herald
Batavia
War Fund
France
Belgium
Europe
Germany
Far East
Leyte
Philippine Islands
Dumbarton Oaks
1945
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N. River St
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Clinton, Il
John Hailey
Robert Hailey
Morton Street
Hailey
Italy
Army Air Corps
15Th Aaf
Austria
Balkans
Neal B. Hendrickson
Coast Guard
Richard Hendrickson
Carl Hendrickson
C. D. Wells
FT. Woutel
AYDS
E. Wilson
Batavia, Ill
Wheaton
Charles
Pho
William Bendix
Susan ' Hayward
Joan Davis
Ladda Ea Dd
Ainx Falkenbure
Joan Woodbur Ae
Leila
Sycuy Greenstreet
Zachary Scott
Faye Emerson
Pater Lorre
George Tobias
Victor Francen
Maisie
Daisy
Sothern
Reno
Velit Joan Ncoiak
Bulga
Lana Turner
Corwvnage
Private
James Craig
John Hodiak
John Geiss
W. C. Jurries