25 Oct 1945
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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 25, 1945
Page
1
Local items show the Board of Selectmen meeting set for October 30 at the town house with Hubert M Wardwell presiding. A reception for Ralph MacLeary and wife follows a banquet at Wright Tavern. Concord clubs and schools announce upcoming meetings and charity fundraisers surrounding the 171st anniversary event and fall activities.
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A high mass of requiem was celebrated at Our Lady Help of Christians in West Concord for John T. McClary aged 68 who died October 16 after a four month illness. Burial followed at Immaculate Conception cemetery Marlboro with attendance from Massachusetts Reformatory, Waltham Elks, and Foresters. He served 37 years as a correction officer and is survived by his wife Blanche McCarthy and three sisters in Vermont and Massachusetts.
Thanks are given to Chairman Johnson and volunteers. The Concord chorus committee will hold another rehearsal for the 100+ voice chorus at the Veterans Building. Directors Miss Nancy Loring and Mrs. D Ripley Gage invite new members. contact C Waldo MacWilliams, Hillside Avenue, West Concord.
Reuben Clifford Pratt 70, longtime Concord resident and Mason, died last Thursday at the Masonic Home in Shrewsbury after a long illness. Funeral services were held Sunday at Trinity Parish Church with Masonic and Eastern Star members serving as pallbearers and at Woollawn Cemetery Acton with temple officers officiating. Pratt, born January 28 1875 in Birds Landing California, lived in Concord for 34 years after a Boston machinist career. He is survived by a sister Mrs Herbert B. B59 of Hagamember and held memberships in the Episcopal Church Fraternity Sir Galahad Commandery Knights Templars Waltham Adoriam Royal Select Masters Hawthorne Chapter Order of Eastern Star Concord.
West Concord Officers were installed at Willow Lodge with Rebekah Lodge exercises at Odd Fellows Hall. Thelkafield, Florence, Evelina Arčen, Elizabeth Pickard, and Birdice Chaplin were named vice grand, financial secretary, recording secretary, and treasurer. Several officers were appointed. Next meeting set for Monday evening November 5 as the Rebekahs plan a busy winter season.
The Woman's Union of the Trinitarian Congregational Church met Thursday afternoon in the parish house. A former mis who spoke on Pauls Yphanus delivered engaging talks about 48 months under the Hitler yoke. Mrs. Clarence Olsen led the event and her committee supervised the tea.
A lengthy memorial listing WW II service members from local families includes LIEUT. CMDR. EDMA. PFC. GEORGE HE. STAFF SERGT. ROBERT S. EGGLETON. PFC. RICHARD G. AVERY. LIEUT. MATTHEW ALBEN. FRANK A. IN. LIEUT. JOHN A. GRANT. PFC. WILLIAM G. JR. LIEUT. ANGELO T.. CMDR. CHARLES EB. DeHAVEN. NATALE ARENA JR.. STAFF SERGT. HERBERT J. McPHILLIPS. CORP. ROBERT FIELDS. PVT. THOMAS HANLEY. SERGT. JOSEPH D. SHEEHAN. LIEUT. WHITNEY M. COOK. PVT. WILLIAM J. WITTON. LIEUT. GEORGE A. TAYLOR. PVT. ANTONIO N. RIZZITANO JR.. SEAMAN DOMENIC J. RIZZITANO. and CPO RICHARD PRENDERGAST. The notices cover actions from Guadalcanal to Okinawa and locations across the Atlantic, Pacific, and European theaters.
A memorial roundup names local residents who died in World War II service. Entries include Lieut Ralph T. Wickford US Army Air Corps at Miami base on October 6 1942 and HM1c William Harlow US Navy killed in the Cocanut Grove disaster November 28 1942, along with John N Hansen US Coast Guard on leave at home May 2 1943 and Lt Milton Paine US Navy Air Corps killed in Maryland September 28 1943. Other entries mention Donald E Sturtevant US Naval Air Corps in Kansas October 18 1943 and Lt Harry B Brown US Army Air Corps formerly of Concord killed in Burlington Vermont November 26 1943. Also Lt William F Emerson US Air Corps killed near March Field February 24 1944 and Lt Merton Sanborn Jr US Marine Air Corps died in Florida April 25 1944.
Two U S Navy officers are listed as missing in action. Lieutenant Richard P Howard of 25 Mossument Street is missing in the North Atlantic area as of January 19 1943. Lieutenant Thomas P Brooks Jr of the Naval Air Corps is reported missing in the Pacific in 1944, son of Mr and Mrs Thomes P Brooks.
Catherine Rose Mansfield daughter of Mrs. Thomas Henry Mansfield and the late Mr. Mansfield married Frederick Fulling son of Mr. and Mrs. Lester P. Fulling of Nashua New Hampshire. The ceremony was at St Bernard's rectory with Mark P. Sullivan curate officiating. A reception followed at the Girl Scout house. The bride is a Concord High School Regis College graduate and lab technician. The groom recently returned from overseas service with the U S Army Signal Corps Ninth Air Force and is on leave.
Concord resident announces the marriage of his daughter Carolyn Esta brook Hosmer to Sergt Christian Vivian Carstensen of the U S Army Air Forces. The ceremony was held at the Church of Christ Congregational in Bedford with Rev Frank W Thompson officiating.
In a retrospective, Concord honors its World War II veterans from Company H, later part of the Keeca Infantry, noting their campaigns in Guadalcanal Bougainville and the Savo Islands. Edmund Billings of Monument Street, a Navy reservist from Weston who moved to Concord, was killed August 9 1942 at Savo Islands.
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