IN MEMORIAM
John Marshall Jenkins ’39 (Company C) died in Hanover, New Hampshire on Nov. 23, 2020. After graduating from Dartmouth in 1943, he was an army draftee, on his way to Camp Upton, Long Island, New York. A year later, he entered OCS (Officers Candidate School), as a new second lieutenant, and was assigned to Army Air Force Intelligence. He served on Army Air Force bases in Hays, Kansas, (B29s) and Alexandria, Louisiana, (B17s). Twice posted for overseas duty, he was twice scratched as the war ended in Europe and then in the Pacific.
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John and his wife Mary lived in suburbs of St. Louis, Missouri, New Canaan, Connecticut, Ft. Wayne, Indiana and Westport, Connecticut for 38 years while John worked in sales and marketing for La France Industries, (eventually VP, board of directors), followed by 25 years with the Imperial Schrade. He retired in 1991. John was a devoted volunteer, throughout his long life. He transported the handicapped to medical appointments, drove for the Red Cross and the Blood Bank, and delivered Meals on Wheels. In Westport he
chaired the Railroad Parking Commission. In Hanover he was a Red Jacket volunteer at DHMC and a volunteer and board member at the Upper Valley Hostel (now Maynard House). At Kendal, where John and Mary moved in 1999, he helped residents in the Kendal Health Center and served on various committees. After John retired, he and Mary traveled extensively in Europe, Africa, Asia and the U.S. He always found time for tennis and an occasional golf game and enjoyed 40 years of summer vacations in Nantucket. John is survived by his wife of 76 years, Mary; two sons;
two daughters; six grandsons, two granddaughters and five great-grandchildren. David Mehard Ellis H’42 died in his home at Charter House on April 20, 2020. He graduated high school from University School in Cleveland, Ohio, then served in the 94th Infantry Division in WWII, where he was assigned to the 376 Infantry Regiment Company D from 1943–1946. He earned a Bronze Star in Battle of the Bulge. He attended Case Western Reserve University and earned a B.S. in mechanical/electrical engineering. In 1951, David started work with General
