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Widow Lorraine Oonk returns to college after wartime loss
Lorraine Meulpolder Oonk, a Pella native and widowed mother of five, enrolls at Brookdale Community College in New Jersey for an AA and AAS in humanities and community mental health. She aims to work in human services, balancing family duties with studies begun in January 1975 and set to graduate June 19, 1977. Her husband, Lt. Col. Lester Oonk, died in Vietnam just before discharge.
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Lorraine (Mealpolder) Oone
Brookdale Community Allege
New Jersey
Lorraine Meulpolder Oonk
Lily
Marinus Meulpolder
Pella
Lorraine
Lester Oonk
Viet Nam
States
Eleanor
Belford
N.J
Brookdale Community College
John
Lehigh University
Beshleham
Penn
Toby
Central
Brookdale
Lincroft
Oonks
Central College
Pella High School
Omaha
Les
Philadelphia
Air Force
Florida
Louisiana
Okinawa
Rochester
N.Y
University R.O