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Newspaper
Bessemer Herald
Location
Bessemer, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1945
Page
13
Miss Kathryn Martin leaves for Escanaba to work. Detroit and Milwaukee visitors call on families. Families host Memorial Day gatherings and celebrate births, furloughs, and arrivals. Military personnel, teachers, and clergy are noted with leaves, assignments, and jobs. Community events include Polish American club and Women’s Missionary Society meetings.
Evelyn Erickson violinist from Bessemer Michigan presented her senior recital at the Lawrence conservatory of music in Appleton Wisconsin on Thursday evening. A member of Sigma Alpha Iota she has performed across the Fox River Valley in solo recitals and with local groups. She also sings with the Lawrence College Choir and has taken part in recent theatre productions.
Miss Constance Mussatti daughter of Mrs Mayme Mussatti of Bessemer will graduate magna cum laude with a BA from the College of St Scholastica Duluth on Wednesday June 6. She majored in social service and was active in academic and social groups including panel discussions and honor societies. She was elected to the St Agnes Honor Society and Delta Epsilon Sigma and named student best representative of the Ideal of Scholarship. She will attend University of Minnesota on a sociology scholarship.
Joseph J. Trappa, once a Bessemer resident and later in Chicago, has opened a Cities Service gas station on East Lead Street. He left here about 20 years ago to work as an automobile mechanic in Chicago and now runs the business with his wife and son.
Funeral services were held last Saturday for Victor Johnson a 70 year old Bessemer pioneer who died at home last week. Services were at Frick Funeral Home and Sherman Lutheran church with Rev F E W Kasman officiating. Hymns by Mrs Joan Bretall with Miss Astrid Hansen on piano. Burial in Hillcrest cemetery. Pallbearers from Runeberg lodge included Carl Anderson John Korpi Thomas Rule August Erickson Arvid Thors and John Newman.
Range Casualties T Sgt Richard F Serrahn 25 son of Mr and Mrs Henry Serrahn Saxon was killed in action in Luzon on April 23 a week after Mrs Serrahn learned her son Lt (jg) Tony Calager had been killed March 26. Surviving parents are three brothers and four sisters. Pfc Harry Westergreen 21 son of Mr and Mrs Arthur Westergreen Ironwood killed in action May 13 while serving with U S Marines on Okinawa island. He had served since April 1943. Survived by parents one brother and two sisters. Another brother William was accidentally killed in a flivver derby at Gogebic county fair grounds in 1940. Pvt Robert Caudill son of Samuel Caudill Watersmeet reported missing in action.
Monsignor Joseph L. Zyrd was named Vicar General of the Marquette diocese last Saturday by Bishop Francis J. Magnar. He succeeds the late Monsignor Henry A. Bucholtz and previously served as an assistant priest at St. Sebastian's parish.
Carl N Olson, an air corps member, appears in the film God Is My Co Pilot at a range theatre this week. He is the son of Mr and Mrs Arthur Olson of this city and the scene filmed about a year ago at Luke Field Arizona. He is now stationed at San Mar.
A terse note urges promising trainees in Cos Texas to complete a preflight course at San Antonio Texas. It promotes Herald advertisements as a path to earnings.
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