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ee ( Ever since the earliest recol-f | lection of most of the middle aged people in Medina the friend-d ly old home of Mr. and Mrs. John D. Dannley on N. Broadway street has been a second home and a place where they could run in day or night, tell their joys or troubles to their sympathetic host and hostess. or just reminisce awhile.se-rlV’[.[.rOne time, some 30 odd years ago. a group of youngsters gathered in the Dannley home, .started to argue about which was thetallest and so finally, to settle the argument, Mrs. Dannley suggested that they mark their height on the inside of the door in the den. They drew lines on the door even with the tops of their heads and then wrote their names on thelines.Mrs. Dannley didn't have the heart to wash the names off and |so they stayed, and as months and years went by more names were added.aThen came World War I. and as her boys went off to fight for their country, Mrs. Dannley pasted a star beside the name of each boy that left- She hung a horse shot*over the door and typed a prayer-song on a card and tacked it at the top of the door.The song could be sung to the tune of “Taps”, and though the typing is somewhat faded over the past quarter of a century, you can still read the words—thev are:“Lord of Hosts hear our prayer,! Save our boys in Thy care* overthere.Bring them home, safely home, Lord of Hosts.”!The wives and sweethearts ofthe boys “over there” went often to the Dannley home and together they sang the song.And then the war was over and all 37 came “safely home” and the door came to be known as “Mrs. Dannley’s lucky door.”More years went by and Mrs.Dannley’s boys brought their children to be measured on the “luckyHnnr M
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Medina County Gazette
Medina, Ohio, US
Fri, Jan 15, 1943
Page 1
Full Page
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Akron S.
OH, USA 27 Jul 2021
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