Veterans and leaders remembered in wartime and postwar service
Gomer Emery recalls the USS Nevada on D Day and its 14 inch guns as he notes the ship’s resilience. Chester McFarland’s career spans WWII to top civil service roles in transportation, ending as Chief of the Traffic Management in Washington. They share hometown pride and family details as community events close with a church gathering and a picnic plan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gomer Emery
Emery
Navy
Lowell Thomas
Nevada
Pearl Harbor
Scuttlebutt
Iwo Jima
Mr. Emery
California
Air Corps
Coast Guard
Europe
E. P. Carville
Chester McFarland
B&o
Kentucky
McFarland
Air Material Command
Continental United States
Topeka
Kan
Army
Japan
Ft. Eustis
New Castle High School
Youngstown University
CONUS
Washington, D.C
Bonnie
Columbia Pike
Arlington
Elizabeth McFarland
S. Mill St
Shenango Pottery
New Castle
Neshannock School Menu For Next Week
Neshannock school presents weekly menus with daily meals. Monday features ravioli and meatballs with buttered beans and a roll plus fruit and milk. Tuesday offers beef stew with biscuit sticks peaches and milk. Wednesday serves chili con carne cole slaw corn bread bread and butter and pears and milk. Thursday includes baked beans with meat and cheese sandwich macaroni salad and milk. Friday provides soups a barbecued sandwich tossed salad and cake or fruit with milk.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Neshannock
Be trothal announced for Kathleen Mahnick and John Griffiths
Announcement of the betrothal of Kathleen Ann Mahnick to Lance Cpl. John Thomas Griffiths lists the couple’s families and hometowns. Mahnick, a Slippery Rock State College education graduate and Highlands District fourth grade teacher, awaits a July 8 ceremony at the Methodist Church of Natrona Heights. Griffiths, a New Wilmington High School graduate and Camp Lejeune sports editor, is the couple’s Marine fiancé.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kathleen Ann Mahnick
Lance
John Thomas Griffiths
Robert D. Griffiths
Melody Lane
New Wilmington
RD 1
Eugene Phillips
Hemlock St
Bairdford
Slippery Rock State College
USMC
Mahnick
West Deer High School
Highlands
Natrona Heights
Cpl. Griffiths
Camp Lejeune
N.C
the Globe
Methodist
James P. Addison
Volant RD 1
Robertine
Charles E. Lahr
Charles Lahrs
RD 4
Miss Addison
Grove City High School
Pennsylvania State University
Jameson Memorial Hospital
Laurel High School
Fisher Body
Lordstown
Ohio
Dear Abby on left handedness and parenting guidance
Dear Abby advises patience with a left handed child and cautions against forcing right handed habits. The column includes reader questions about a left handed son, a bridal shower, engagement notices, and a GI letter to a young reader, all framed in a community newspaper style.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Abigail van Buren
Abby
Temple Israel bridge winners headline local game
In the vestry room at Temple Israel Mrs Russell Forney and Mrs Glenn McCracken won first place in bridge. Second went to Mrs Lawrence Perelman and Mrs A A Leivo, third to Mrs Simon Skole and Mrs Morris Davis, and fourth to Mrs Karl Hempel and Mrs Paul Genkinger. Games resume at 12 30 p m Monday at the temple.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Russell Forney
Glenn McCracken
Temple Israel
Lawrence Perelman
A. A. Leivo
Simon Skole
Morris Davis
Karl Hempel
Paul Genkinger
The
Temple
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Joan R. Marshall
Queen Esther
Third UP Church
Emery Schuffert
Betty Gray
Pearl Colnor
Jack Kenehan
Irwin Huffman
Colnor
William Mooney
Wilmington Road
P.S
Mrs. Theodore
McGill
W. Leasure Ave
White’s Millinery
E. Washington St
New Castle News
Lark Workshop
Ann Schmieg
Wampum RD 2
Pittsburgh
Lawrence County
Diocesan Council of Catholic Women
Marie Rocco
Virginia Montozzi
Clarence Fasnaught
Miss Rocco
Nccw Institute
John J. Wright
Fred Eckhardt
Mt. Lebanon
Eleanor Smalko
Beaver
Regina McDermott
Wright
Paul IV
Bishop Wright
St. Mary’s Church
St. Mary’s Hall
ST. Louis
Ottawa
Miss Mahnick
SRSC
Dear Abby
Miss Walczak
Michaelene Walczak
Pbride
Andy Gentsy Jr
Morton Street Hall
Susann Walczak
Pamela Thompson
Frances Zuzow
Carolyn McGuffie
Michaeline
Andy
Louis Dee
Sally Dee
Angelo Feola
SS Philip & James Church
Mary
Thailand
Viet Nam
Addison-Lahr Troth
United States
Beck’s
St. Jefferson St
Germani Jewelry
N. Mercer ST
Washington
U. S
New York
U.S
Dames OF
Malta
Star of Liberty Sisterhood
Dames of Malta
Shenango
Wilmington Avenue
McDonald's
China
Simon Blau
Mill & Long
Lee
Lawrence Village Plaza
Jrs
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