Gary High School Fifteen Club Hosts Party and Recital
Gary West Virginia reports the Fifteen Club from Gary High School hosting a party at T J McParland’s home then attending a Recreational Center event with refreshments. Memorial service at Gary Methodist Church honors Thomas G Egham with American Legion attendance. Piano recital at Gary High School features Miss Trent Walker’s pupils. Birth notice for Frank Michael Kapish Jr. and graduation exercises at Thorpe School list graduates.
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Gary High School
Gary
Eaith
T. J. McParland
Frank Kapish
Frank Michael, Jr
Memorial Hospital
Williamson
Society to Meet at Methodist Church Thursday
The W. C. T. U. of Ream Methodist church will hold a meeting Thursday afternoon at 1 30 o clock.
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Ream Methodist Church
Sacred concert at Gary Methodist Church Monday evening
A sacred concert will be held Monday evening June 3 at 7 30 at Gary Methodist Church. The choir directed by Miss J Frances Allen will perform in three groups. A piano solo will be won by Mrs Gordon Beach and the male quartet featuring Frank Watson will perform.
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Gary Methodist Church
J. Frances Allen
Gordon Beach
Frank Watson
Senior class pageant closes school year with awards
The final exercises at the school auditorium featured the senior class pageant and patriotic music by the school Glee club. Awards were presented including American Legion honors to Verna Payne and Garnet Parks, DAR history award to Robert Ketter, top senior boy and girl awards to B H Barksdale and Betty Jean Watson, Golden Horseshoe to Rudolph Sarna, Reader's Digest award to Doris Witten, and diplomas conferred by J. Batten, assistant superintendent of McDowell county schools.
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Ot Freedom
Verna Payne
Filbert
Garnet Parks
Gary
American Legion
Robert Ketter
DAR History
B. H. Barksdale
Betty Jean Watson
Rudolph Sarna
Elbert
Doris Witten
Reader's Digest
J. Batten
McDowell County
May Queen Miss Betty Stasik crowns Mary statue in Gary
Miss Betty Stasik of Gary reigned as May Queen at the annual May Day celebration held a week ago at Our Lady of Victory Catholic church. She placed the crown on the statue of the Blessed Virgin Mary as part of the Mothers Day event. maids of honor included Katie Yerko vich Frances Gracie Hajash Irene Toth and Dorothy Nesgoda.
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Betty Stasik
Gary
Our Lady of Victory Catholic Church
Stassik
Katie Yerkovich
Frances Gracie Hajash
Irene Toth
Dorothy Nesgoda
Service Notes Highlight War-Front Assignments and Home-Front Relos
Edward Ketter USNR assistant engineering officer on a destroyer since 1944 returns home on an 18 day leave to visit his parents in Mexico Missouri. Other notes list Pfc Jason M Riggins Jr and Pvt Chas D McBeaver among those serving in Okinawa and Europe with the Marines and Army, plus Lt Norris Richards and Capt Thomas Nunnally earning Bronze Star medals for meritorious service in Europe and France.
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Edward Ketter
USNR
Gary
Tarawa
Pacific
Mexico
Ketter
U. S. Coal and Coke Company
Jason M. Riggins, Jr
J. M. Riggins
Torpe
Sixth Marine Division
Okinawa
Riggins
Walter F. Majerczyk
Majerczyk
Elbert
Department of Motor Mechanics
Panama Canal Department
Paul Blasher
Filbert
Arthur Weiss
Bonds Clothing Company
Mariannas
Navy
Norris D. Richards
Thorpe
Leutenant
Army
War Department
Washington
Richards
Gary High School
Carl M. Dooley
143Rd Infantry
Siegfried Line
Gilbert Wood
Lena Wood
Army Air Forces Central
Laredo Army Air Field
Laredo
Texas
Wood
John J. McKenna
Thomas N. McKenna
Pilbert
Hutchinson Naval Air Station
Ker
Raymond L. Misco
Misco
Destroyer Escort School
Miami
Fla
Chas. D. McBeaver
Moore General Hospital
Swananee
N. C
New- France
Germany
Combat Engineers
U. S. Coal and Company
Carl E. Gross
Paris Gross
Local School Pageant Scenes and Army News
Julia Jursiowski and Peggy Yudick take roles as crown and train bearers in a school pageant. First Sgt. Charlies Andrego, once reported missing in Germany on December 16, 1944, has been liberated from a war camp. He enlisted in 1940 and served at Fort Benning before going overseas in 1944. he is Gary high school alumni.
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Joseph A. Obrochta
Elbert
France
Thomas M. Nunnally
Wilcoe
William Nunnally
Nunnally
States
Europe
Gary High School
West Virginia University
Ft. Belvoir
Iceland
England
Germany
Nunaliv
Albert L. Quessenberry
S. M. Bingham
Cary
Roer River
West Virginia
Army
Marine Corps
McClelland M. Gray
Gray
Clyde Hampton
Gulfport
Miss
B. Hampton Gray
Sgt Gray
Army Air Base
Sulfport
Kent
B. Compton Gray Jr
Joseph W. Grey
Julia Jursiowski
Peggy Yudick
Little
Oo Rt
Ang
Neger School
Miss Stassik
Steve Stassik
Charlies Andrego
Andy Andrego - Gary
Andrego
Armay
Fort Benning
Second Lieutenant Freeman returns home from German POW camp
Norman Evans and Paul Sprisoner report the liberation of Lieut. Rudolph W. Farmer from a German prison camp after more than a year as a bombardier aboard a U S heavy bomber. He was missing in action in the Mediterranean in April last year and had served 14 months in Australia before transferring to Europe.
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Pacific Wrs
United States
Histhers
Norman Evans
Paulsprisoner
Ambardier
U. S
Australia
J. Howard B. Evans
Rudolph W. Farmer
Wilcoe
Raymond Farmer Thorpe
Farmer
Mediterranean
Victorville
Calif
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Gary, W. Va
J. P. Rd
Methodist Bhy
Thomas G. Egham
Hubert Bingham
Camilla
India
Tom Reed
Kenneth Reed
Marie Ketter
Jurasic
Frieda Murphy
Anvil Ritter
Ted Zachweija
Joe Barentes
Harless Rush
G. M. Weston
James Peck
Tozer
Jack Lawson
Bobby Mitchem
Boardman
Joleen Taylor
Cooper
Tne
Theresa Beren- Borilla Jurasic
Betty Jean Landreth
Jackie Lester
Raymond Taylor
Perey
L. D. Feuchtenberger Bakeries, Inc
Eietee Gt Yt
Holland
Ninth Army
Joe Puskar
Gary No. 6
Pfc
Puskar
Italy
John Puskar
Joe Andrego
Stral
Ernest M. Popovich
Pete Popovich
12Th Armored Division
82Nd Ay Otemerical Battalion
R. W. Worring Anu Sone
Bobby
Tommy
Morgartown
J. J. Blair
Marguerite Petty
Lucy Stockwell Whitney
West Hartford
Conn
Whitney
Miss Petty
Patricia Honaker
Huntington
Marshall Colone
Velma Mae Conner
Megantown
Elbridge Conner
Morgantown
Jerry Honaker
Roy Honaker
India Covey
Snowville
Irma Anderson
Concord College
W. L. Anderson
By Miller Watt
Joe Palooka
Ham Fisher
COMIN
Manila
Berlin
Blondie
By Dhi Young
Boots
Roden Relgsles
BY Edgar MartIn
Tarm
BY Hamk
Sei Lee Ee
Dick Tracy
Chester Gould
Tai
Don Winslow
Gus Edson
BY Williams
Frank V. Mastinek
EGAD
Jake
CVG
Taion
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