Dearborn Family Reunion
Alice DeKalb Dearborn - Mother of Ruth Dearborn Hester, Alfred Dearborn, Essie Dearborn Dunham, Jean Dearborn Knight and Melvin Dearborn. Alice’s husband was Clarence Dearborn.
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Alfred L. Dearborn, 2nd Lieutenant, US Army Air Forces. Served during World War II as a navigator assigned to the 511th Bomb Squadron,
351st Bomb Group in Polebrook, England. Navigator on the B-29 bomber known as the “Speedball.� Flew 12 bombing missions over strategic targets in Germany and France. Killed in action on December 31, 1943 after his plane was shot down returning from a bombing raid over France. The plane was ditched in the water off the coast, and the surviving airmen huddled in a lifeboat for hours in below-zero temperatures. Alfred froze to death before help arrived, and he was buried at sea in the English Channel.
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Alice Dearborn (center) and grandkids. Top row: Jan O’Dell, Bud Anderson, Marion Wood, Peggy Shahan, Ken Dunham, Ray Hester, Jim Knight Bottom row: Cheryl Sprehe, Dave Dunham, Dan Knight (in Alice’s lap), Grace Wood, Diana Dunham (bottom corner)
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Alfred Dearborn Harley Dearborn (Alfred’s uncle/Clarence Dearborn’s brother)
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Alice Dearborn, Rachel O’Dell • 1982
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Ralph DeKalb (Alice’s brother), Alice DeKalb Dearborn, Millie DeKalb (Ralph’s wife) • 1961
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Alice Dearborn, Dan Knight • late 1953 or early 1954
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Alice Dearborn, receiving Alfred Dearborn’s posthumous Purple Heart • 1944 The woman with her may be her sister, Jennie Sheets.
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Jean Knight, Melvin Dearborn, Ruth Hester Alice Dearborn
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Billy Wood, Marion Wood, Ruth Hester, Jake Hester
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Jean Knight, Essie Dunham
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Nell Dearborn
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Essie Dunham, Jean Knight, Bethann Rice
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Essie Dunham, Melvin Dearborn, Ruth Hester
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Essie Dunham, Alfred Dearborn, Alice Dearborn, Ruth Hester, Melvin Dearborn, Jean Knight
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Essie Dunham, Ruth Hester
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Charley Dearborn, Clarence Dearborn’s uncle. (Charley was Scott Dearborn’s brother; Scott was Clarence Dearborn’s father.)
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Harley Dearborn (Clarence Dearborn’s brother)
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Ruth Hester, Hazel DeKalb Hoke (Alice Dearborn’s sister) • 1917
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Benjamin Franklin DeKalb and Clara Daughtery DeKalb (center row, adults); Hazel DeKalb Hoke (top, center) Ralph Dekalb and Alice DeKalb Dearborn (bottom row)
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Clara DeKalb Dearborn, Jennie DeKalb Sheets (Alice’s sister)
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Jake Hester, Ruth Hester, Ray Hester
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Melvin Dearborn, Bob Dunham, Jake Hester (bottom)
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Marion Wood, Peggy Shahan, Bud Anderson, Jim Knight, Grace Wood, Dan Knight, Jeanne Knight Jean Knight (bottom row)
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Jean Knight, Jan Hester O’Dell, Nell Dearborn • 1965
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Nell Dearborn and Ruth Dearborn Hester
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Alice Dearborn
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Jean Dearborn Knight, Ruth Dearborn Hester, Jan Hester O’Dell
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Top: Jennie Sheets (Alice’s sister), Peggy Dearborn Shahan Bottom: Alice DeKalb Dearborn, Kim Shahan Laxton
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Mrs. Doubtfire a/k/a Jim Knight
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Nell Dearborn
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Peggy Dearborn Shahan, Kim Shahan Laxton
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Peggy Dearborn Shahan, Melvin Dearborn
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Ken Dunham, Jan Hester O’Dell, Diana Dunham (in front of Jan), Ruth Dearborn Hester, Ray Hester, Dave Dunham, Jim Dunham (in Ruth’s arms) • 1954
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Ruth Dearborn Hester, Melvin Dearborn, Essie Dearborn Dunham
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Rabbit Hill
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Donnie Knight
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Paul Knight, 2nd from left
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Peggy Dearborn Shahan, Paul Knight
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Florence Selber Dearborn, Cheryl Dearborn Sprehe, Melvin Dearborn
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Peggy Dearborn Shahan, Paul Knight
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Essie Dearborn Dunham, Jake Hester, Ruth Dearborn Hester
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Betty Raye Quincy Knight, Jim Knight
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Jim Knight
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Marilyn Hannah Swanson
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Janis & Dave Dunham
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Betty Raye Quincy Knight (facing camera),
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Betty Raye Quincy Knight
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Melvin Dearborn, Ruth Dearborn Hester
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Marilyn Hannah Swanson, Essie Dearborn Dunham, Bob Dunham
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Bob Dunham
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John Shahan & Peggy Dearborn Shahan
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Bob Dunham
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Nancy & Jim Dunham
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Dave & Janis Dunham
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Trish Slagley
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Trish Slagley
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John Shahan
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Dan O’Dell
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Jim & Nancy Dunham
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Paul Dunham (top) Jim Dunham, Ken Dunham
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Essie Dearborn Dunham, Bob Dearborn
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Peg Dearborn Shahan