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GOLDEN Feb 4, 2013 / Vol. 23, No. 2

TIMES A monthly magazine for the region’s retirees by Target Publications

Providing Comfort Sister Margie Schmidt finds her way around life’s tragedies at St. Joe’s / Page 10

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EDITOR: Mary Tatko COORDINATOR: Peggy Hayden

Birthdays .................................... Page 6 Reader poetry .............................. Page 9

Golden Times is inserted in the Tribune the first Monday of every month. On the cover: Sister Margie Schmidt travels the halls of St. Joseph Regional Medical Center on a daily basis, providing spiritual nurishment for patients and their families. Photo by: Kyle Mills of the Tribune

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Thought for the month “I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.” — Thomas Jefferson

WHO AM I? My birthday is Feb. 4, 1913. I became famous following my arrest on Dec. 1, 1955, in Montgomery, Ala. In 1932, I married a barber named Raymond. We eventually moved to Detroit where I worked as a secretary for a senator. I died Oct. 24, 2005, at the age of 92.

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The regular scheduled Thursday night dance at the Sixth Street Senior Center will be a sweetheart dance on Feb. 14 for Valentine’s Day. Cost for the dances is $4 per person and music is provided by the Heustis Kountry Band. The dances take place at the center from 7 to 10 p.m. every Tuesday and Thursday. There will be foot care at the center at 9 a.m. Wednesday. The monthly board meeting is scheduled for 9 a.m. Feb. 19. Meals served at the center this month include a pancake feed at noon on Feb. 13; soup and sandwiches at noon Feb. 20; and the monthly potluck with meat furnished by Emeritus Juniper Meadows is at noon Feb. 27. The center will continue its Thursday afternoon pinochle game each week at 1 p.m.

Senior center to have joint talk St. Joseph Total Joint Center of Excellence will put on a talk titled “Learn About Your Joints” at Pautler Senior Center in Clarkston at 12:30 p.m. Friday. The talk is free and open to everyone. There will not be any foot care at the center on Feb. 18. Foot care will be available by appointment from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. each of the other Mondays and Wednesdays of the month. Appointments can be made by calling (509) 758-2355. The general board meeting is at 9 a.m. Feb. 13 and the annual Pautler Senior Center Board meeting and elections are at 1 p.m. Feb. 18 with coffee and pie. There will be a blood drive for the Red Cross from 1 to 6 p.m. Feb. 20. The center offers senior fitness classes from 10:15 to 11:15 a.m. each Tuesday and Thursday, and a painting class from 11:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. each Monday.

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Birthdays starting at 70, and every year after, will be accepted for publication in Golden Times in the month of the birthday only. The limit for each submission is 200 words. Photographs are welcome. Birthday submissions must include the name and phone number of the person submitting information. If you would like your photo returned, please include a self-addressed, stamped envelope. If you have questions about submitting a birthday, please call (208) 848-2243. Mailed information may be sent to: Golden Times, P.O. Box 957, Lewiston, ID 83501; emailed submissions should be sent to goldentimes@lmtribune.com. March birthdays must be received by 5 p.m. Feb. 18.

Loris LaVelle Hayhurst of Lewiston is turning 95 today. She was born Feb. 4, 1918, to James W. Williams and Olive Parks Williams in Grangeville. She graduated from Grangeville High School and attended Kinman Business School in Spokane. She married Wayne Hayhurst Nov. 24, 1938, and the couple farmed in Grangeville before moving to Fernwood to raise cows. They later moved to Lewiston. While in Grangeville, she was a lifelong member of Mizpah Rebekah Lodge No. 12. She was a member of the Syringa Button Club in Lewiston and had a large button collection for which she won several state awards. She currently resides at Kindred Transitional Care and Rehabilitation Center in Lewiston, where she enjoys playing bingo. Her husband died in May 2010. A birthday party was held while her grandson and greatgrandson were visiting from Texas.

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FEB. 10  SHIRLEY SEELEY

Sept. 21, 1957. She has five children. Shirley Seeley of Orofino Her husband died July 4, will turn 75 on Sunday. 2009. She was born Feb. 10, 1938, She is active in the senior in Burns Hospital at Orofino. citizens group and her She married Bud Seeley church.

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 Florecene Kress

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Florecene Kress of Lewiston will celebrate her 92nd birthday Feb. 12. She was born in 1921 at Indianapolis to Arthur and Irma Court. The family moved to Clarkston, where she graduated from high school in 1939. After working for three years at the shipyards in Portland, Ore., she moved back to the Lewiston-Clarkston Valley where she met Wendell Kress. They were married Aug. 17, 1947, and spent many years ranching, farming and raising vegetables for the fruit stands they operated in the valley. Her husband died in April 2004. She has one daughter, two grandchildren and one greatgrandchild.

Effie McAllister of Orofino will be 89 Feb. 13. She was born in 1924, near Orofino and has spent her life there except during World War II when she worked as a welder in Portland, Ore. She also worked at a Potlatch logging camp and was a housekeeper at the Greer nursing home and convalescent center. She married Jesse McAllister. The couple have two children and three grandchildren.

Raymond Kunze of Lewiston will be 88 on Feb. 15. He was born in 1925, at Appleford, Wis. and was the second of six children. He moved to Idaho in 1948 and spent his working years as a heavy-equipment operator. He retired from DeAtley in 1970. He married Peggy Howerton. She died after 41 years of marriage in 2009. The couple spent many years working in Alaska before settling in Lewiston.

For several years he and his wife owned and operated the grocery store in Culdesac. In retirement, he and his wife traveled extensively through the U.S. and Europe. He has three stepchildren, six step-grandchildren and six great-great-grandchildren. He was an active member of the Elks Lodge for many years. He enjoys socializing with family and friends. He currently resides at the Idaho State Veterans Home in Lewiston.

Feb. 23  Elisa Perkins

Feb. 20  Leonard (Pete) Galloway Leonard (Pete) Galloway of Orofino will be 82 years old on Feb. 20. He was born in 1931 at Juliaetta. He married Lois Kirk at Warm Beach, Wash. He worked for Union Pacific Railroad after he returned from serving with the U.S. Army. He has two sons and two grandchildren. He enjoys traveling.

Feb. 24  Bob Hyde

Bob Hyde of Lewiston will be Elisa Perkins of Orofino will 83 Feb. 24. He was born in 1930, to Glen celebrate her 96th birthday and June Hyde in Memphis, Mo. He was the fourth of seven chilFeb. 23. dren. He moved to Idaho after She was born in 1917. graduating from high school at age 17. She and her husband were Most of his life was spent

working as a logger in Idaho, Wyoming and along the Pacific Coast. He retired as a chain saw operator in 1990 from McLaughlin Logging in Clearwater County. He and Marlene Minden have been married for 56 years. They have four children, seven grandchildren and three greatgrandchildren. The couple lived

in Weippe for 40 years where he was active in the community. The couple enjoy traveling and have traveled to Asia, Europe, the British Isles and Mexico since retiring. His interests include socializing with family and friends, gardening, fishing, reading, crossword puzzles and walking.

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FEB. 24  MILDRED (MIMMIE) JOHNSON Mildred (Mimmie) Johnson of Lewiston will celebrate her 95th birthday on Feb. 25. She was born in 1918 at Avon, the fifth of eight children, to Clarence and Tillie Lundgren Anderson. The family lived in the Texas Ridge area until she was 8 years old when they moved to Deary. In 1929, the family moved to Weippe. There she met Sanders (Sandy) Johnson and they were married Jan. 20, 1946. The

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couple purchased property in  LOUISE EAGEN the Lewiston Orchards Louise Eagen of Lewiston and built several home will have her 90th birthday together. He died in on Feb. 26. 1989 after 43 years of She was born in 1923. marriage. She and John Eagen were She is the sole surmarried 68 years ago. The viving member of her couple have two sons, one immediate family but granddaughter and one has many nieces and great-granddaughter. nephews nearby. She enjoys cross stitch and crocheting, and shares She loves visiting her creations with many. with family and catchAn open house is planned from 2 to 5 ing up on the phone, reading gossip magazines and going p.m. March 23 at the Clarkston Eagles to celebrate her birthday. out to lunch. Her family sends their love and wish her a great 95th birthday. READER POETRY

 TOM REILLY Tom Reilly of Orofino will be 86 on Feb. 26. He was born in Grand Forks, N.D., in 1927. He joined the U.S. Navy and served as a cook on a ship. He married Rosemary Shoemaker in 1951. He worked construction as an operating engineer. He got a pilot’s license in 1947 and flew mail out to Michigan and North Dakota. He owned two airplanes: an Aronca Champ and a Cessna. The family moved to Orofino in 1966 and he continued his route there. His wife died in 1993. He has six children.

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Sister Margie Schmidt is a nurturer, and not just of people. “I like plants and so I can’t throw starts away,” Schmidt said, pointing out a specimen

with long, thin leaves cascading from a small ceramic vase. “I take these starts and plant them in coffee mugs, tea pots … .” She figures she plants 300 to 400 starts a year. Every three months, she places them outside of her of-

fice door on the second floor at St. Joseph Regional Medical Center in Lewiston for staff and visitors to take. They’re usually gone within half an hour or so. “They take one and they pray a prayer for someone,” she said. “I call them pastoral care

“I have the priviledge of being the hospice chapling. I get to be in people’s homes, especially in the last weeks and months of their journey” — Sister Margie Schmidt prayer plants.” Despite her success with the prayer plants, Schmidt, 67, who is director of pastoral care at St. Joseph Regional Medical Center and chaplain for St. Joseph Family Hospice and Palliative Care, admitted she does not have a green thumb. “I don’t do so well with plants that aren’t hardy,”

Schmidt said, laughing. What she does have a knack for is connecting with patients, families and hospital staff, often in their most difficult moments. Schmidt and the medical center’s three other chaplains visit patients throughout the facility each day, checking to see that their spiritual and

Sister Margie Schmidt talks with Tim Sayler, CEO of St. Joseph Regional Medical Center, as she makes her rounds at Lewiston hospital. Tribune/ Kyle Mills

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“You know, she does all kinds of things here. She helps lead our culture of caring.” — Tim Sayler, CEO of St. Joseph Regional Medical Center other needs are being met. Those serving in pastoral care frequently act as liaisons between patients and families, especially in the emergency room, she said. Another service they provide is helping seriously ill patients and families with advance directives, Schmidt said, such as living wills and power of attorney. “I think we provide a calmness,” she said of the pastoral care team. Often, she is present during a patient’s last moments. “It’s very profound,” she said. “It’s a profound job, or ministry.” In addition to her ministry at St. Joe’s, Schmidt visits patients outside of the hospital’s walls through her work with the hospice program. “I have the privilege of being the hospice chaplain,” Schmidt said. “I get to be in people’s homes, especially in the last weeks and months of their journey.” Schmidt and the other chaplains also serve the hospital’s staff. “Sometimes they need to debrief,” she said. “It’s not uncommon to see a staff member running her down in the hall asking for help,” St. Joseph CEO Tim Sayler said. Sayler said he appreciates the multiple roles Schmidt fills and the Christcentered focus she brings to her work. “You know, she does all kinds of things here,” he said. “She helps lead our culture of caring.” Schmidt, who grew up the youngest of six children in Greencreek and went through formation at the Monastery of St. Gertrude in Cottonwood, has not always worked in a health-care setting. She taught grade school for 12 years in Grangeville and Boise, was a youth and family minister at parishes in Payette and Parma, Idaho, and was parish life director at St. Stanislaus Catholic Church in Lewiston, where she has lived for 20 years. In addition to her training at the monastery, Schmidt has two master’s degrees, in religious education/ministry from Seattle University and in counseling from the College of Idaho at Caldwell. She worked for several years as a divorce and child custody mediator for the courts and had a small private counseling practice. In every phase of her life, she said, her work has been informed by — and she has received support from — the Benedictine community in Cottonwood where her

career began. The start she got there and the various jobs she’s held since were good preparation for her current ministry, she said. “I think I have skills and maybe a little bit of wisdom to share.” Also key to her success at St. Joe’s, Schmidt said, has been her sense of humor. It’s been nearly eight years since she started at the medical center, where she had to overcome a lifelong fear of blood and hospital smells. “Never thought I’d be in a hospital,” she admitted. “Now I can’t imagine being any other place.” She was worried she would pass out at the sight of blood or of someone getting a shot, but she remembers the day that changed. “I made up my mind,” Schmidt recounted. “I was with a patient in the ICU, and his wife asked me to sit with him. They came in and started doing some type of a procedure, and I stayed – and that took care of it.” When Schmidt makes her rounds at St. Joe’s, she doesn’t wait around for the elevators that access the medical center’s five floors. She said she feels blessed to be in good health and she doesn’t take it for

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ABOVE RIGHT: Sister Margie Schmidt has walked in all but one Bloomsday during the last 15 years and has the T-shirts to prove it. ABOVE LEFT: She gets plenty of training for the event walking the halls of St. Joseph Regional Medical Center. granted. She’s getting ready for her 14th Bloomsday this year and taking the stairs is a good way to exercise when the weather isn’t good. “I’m a fair weather walker,” she said. Schmidt walks the well-known 12K race in Spokane every May with good friends Toni Kraut, Cindi Durgan and Carmen Haddock. “Those are the Bloomsday buddies,” she said. They usually finish in about two hours. “We’re walking at a nice brisk pace,” Schmidt said. But camaraderie, not speed, is the goal. “It’s the being with those women,” she

said. “And also just the 40,000 people or whatever is there.” She also participates in the 10K Seaport River Run in Lewiston each April and an annual walk to support multiple sclerosis research. On paper, such as when she marks her age-group on a race registration, Schmidt might appear to be retirement age. But she remains immersed in her career – and her calling. “I love it. I am challenged and humbled each and every day,” she said. “I’ll do this as long as I’m able. It is life-giving.”  Tatko can be reached at mtatko@ lmtribune.com or (208) 848-2244

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The WA-ID Volunteer Center in the Lewiston Community Center at 1424 Main St. provides individualized volunteer opportunities for those wishing to serve in Lewiston, Clarkston, Asotin, Pomeroy, Moscow and the Orofino area. The phone number is (208) 746-7787. The center can also be found online at www.waidvolunteercenter.org. The following are a few of the volunteer opportunities available in February. l Idaho Legal Aid is in need of a volunteer with office skills to help with receptionist duties. Volunteers for this position will need to have office attire, professional demeanor and the ability to answer phones efficiently and cheerfully. Client confidentiality is mandatory. l America Reads is in need of volunteers to work with children on their reading skills for the remainder of the school year. No teaching experience is necessary. Those interesed in this volunteer opportunity must be able to devote one hour once a week to their student. l Community Action food bank is in need of a volunteer driver to be a substitute on regular routes as well as a helper to ride with a driver on Fridays. Both positions require the ability to do some lifting. There is also a need for a volunteer at the front counter. This position does require some computer skills. l The American Red Cross is looking for an instructor for Reconnection Workshops, which are dedicated to military service personnel and their families. The program goal is to support and ease the transition home. The focus is on individual/small group discussion that enhances a positive connection among family members and helps service men and women adjust to civilian life. Training is provided.

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l There is an immediate need for meal delivery drivers for the Senior Nutrition Program and Valley Meals-On-Wheels in Lewiston, as well as the Senior Round Table senior meal program in Asotin County. Individuals must be able to commit to one day per week. Volunteers must have a valid license, insurance and personal vehicle. New volunteers are partnered with current drivers to learn routes. Some of these programs offer mileage reimbursement and a meal. For more information on any of these or other volunteer opportunities offered through the WA-ID Volunteer Center call Cathy Robinson at (208) 746-7787. ——— Interlink Volunteers — Faith in Action in Clarkston offers volunteer opportunities throughout the area. The office is open from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. weekdays. They are located at 817 Sixth St. They can be reached at (509) 751-9143. l Handymen are needed for a variety of volunteer projects, including installation of grab bars in bathrooms, gutter cleaning and more. Volunteers must use own tools. Materials are provided by Interlink. l Volunteers with some carpentry skills are needed to help build entry steps and wheelchair ramps, and to construct and place outdoor handrails. Volunteers must have own tools but materials are provided by Interlink. l Volunteers are needed to provide transportation to and from appointments Monday through Friday. This requires a valid drivers license, insurance and own vehicle. Mileage is reimbursed. Volunteers interested in any of these projects can complete an application and learn more about the organization online at www.interlinkvolunteers.org.

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A pain in the heel can be healed What happens after you spent the season being jolly, accumulating a sleigh-full of weight, and then course-correcting with the perennial New Year’s resolution to exercise and lose weight? For some people, medical clearance is sought and reasonable objectives are constructed with consultations from a licensed trainer or

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So after taking a month off from the column, I was hungry and thought there was no better place to start this year’s run of columns than the Asotin meal site for the Senior Round Table. I hadn’t yet visited this group and thought it was about time that I did. It was a recent Tuesday just after we here in the Lewiston-Clarkston Valley had received our annual 2 inches of snow Commentary … OK it may have been a little more than 2 inches and either way it actually stuck around for a few days, which we here in the “Northern banana belt” are not used to. Needless to say, the group was — intimate — which is to say there were fewer than a dozen people there for lunch. For me it was a great thing, because it meant easy access to all in attendance. For those who missed the chicken-fried steak, mashed potatoes with gravy, broccoli Normandy and peaches it was a bad thing, because the meal was wonderful and because it may mean those seniors unable to attend didn’t get a hot

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lunch that day. These senior nutrition programs are so important for many reasons, like providing a meal the seniors might not otherwise have. The reasons they don’t get these meals at home vary: there isn’t enough money in their budget for it; they don’t want to cook for one; they’re a lonely widower who never quite got the hang of the kitchen. Whatever the reason these meals are a wonderful thing for our seniors. At this particular lunch it seemed many of those in attendance had some connection other than traveling to the United Methodist Church in Asotin to have a meal. Either they attended school together or with a sibling of their co-diners. They all had ties to Asotin, having grown up in the area. The only man in attendance that day was Bob Triplett. He was brought to the lunch by his daughter, who also enjoyed the meal with the rest of us. While we all ate and chatted, Triplett just ate. Through the entire mealtime he only said one thing: “I feel pretty lonely.” The women at the lunch say it was because he is hard of hearing, but I have to wonder if he might have spoken up a little more if he had another man in the room. Tracy Krauss has been the site manager for about five years and seems to stay up on the comings and goings of those who regularly attend lunches at the church. Attendees hail from Anatone, Asotin and Clarkston. They come to this meal site because they like it and of those there that day none of them venture

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to the Clarkston meal site for the Friday lunch, which is not served at Asotin. There were moments of silence, which is not something you experience at the Clarkston site or any of the other meal sites I have visited in the region. But that probably had more to do with the size of the group and my tape recorder than it did anything else. But they blamed the silence on the absence of a few of the men who attend the lunch regularly. When they spoke, the women expelled a lot of knowledge about the area. For instance Merchant’s use to have a mortuary in Asotin, where the museum now is and there is still a casket in the basement. Jo Anne Miller, who works at the museum, talked about some of the stuff they have there. Besides the casket, which has a flag draped over it. The basement is considered the military area complete with a mannequin wearing a U.S. Air Force uniform. One thing about this meal site that is much different from the others I have been to is when the meal is done everyone not only picks up their dishes and takes them to the kitchen area, they all pitch in with clearing the rest of the stuff off the tables, washing the dishes and packing up the food that was not given out. It’s more like having a meal with your family than it is having lunch at a meal site. It made complete my quaint afternoon meal in Asotin.  Hayden can be reached at phayden@lmtribune.com or (208) 848-2243

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 VOLUNTEER, continued from page 13 The group meets on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 9 a.m. to about 3 p.m. at the Church of New Hope in the Lewiston Orchards. The church donates use of the space to the group and even provides them a space to store equipment, materials and quilts. The quilters have been gathering at the church for about a decade. The group also receives support from Warm and Natural in the way of an annual donation of a roll of batting. HOW IT ALL BEGAN: The group began out of the desire of Jerene Lowary to make quilts for the community in February 2001. She would make quilts with donated materials that she would ask for through the morning radio show “Call-in Classifieds” on KRLC. The show was hosted at that time by Steve Kingsley and he suggested that she also get the community involved by asking for others to help her make the quilts. At the time, she wasn’t interested in leading a group but at Kingsley insistence she finally decided to ask others to help. So she mentioned on “Call-in Classifieds” one morning that if there was anyone who had some spare time and wanted to help they could call in to the show. Some women who heard that show joined Lowary at her kitchen table making quilts. Those women were Norma Miesen, Bonnie Peters and Frances Cunnington, with

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Mysterious old envelope leaves son with questions The senior Farrell lived alone after his wife died. And when he died at age 80, his son found his ditty box, a small wooden container where seafarers keep PHILADELPHIA — The mystery important papers. began, Graham Farrell said in a phone When he ďŹ nally looked inside, he call from England, when he opened found the sorts of papers that anyone a box that contained his late father’s might hold onto. His father kept the most important possessions. certiďŹ cate from his 1930s wedding to Inside was a sealed envelope. And his wife, Iris. He kept some war records on it, scrawled in his father’s elegant and his wife’s birth certiďŹ cate. hand, was written: “Very dear to me.â€? And the envelope. Farrell, the sole son among six sibDual bells mark the wedding invilings, came across the box as he settled tation of Katherine Frances Bonner the estate of his father, Albert Edward and Francis C. Nuneviller on Aug. 24, Farrell, in 2003. But only recently 1946, at Holy Cross Church. could he bear to open it. Tucked inside that was an employIn the envelope he found three piecment card from the Duchess of Bedes of paper: A tattered invitation to a ford, of Canadian PaciďŹ c Steamships. 1946 wedding — in Philadelphia, of all Farrell’s name appears in pencil on the places. A black-and-white photograph front. On the back is written, “Miss of a couple and their children, dated Kay Bonner, 244 Sydney St., Philadel1953. And an old employment card phia, Pa.,â€? and below, “Eleanor B. Curfrom Canadian PaciďŹ c Steamships. rie, 253 Sydney St., Philly, Pa.â€? All three bore one name in common: The 1953 photo shows a group of Kay Bonner, the woman to whose wedpeople standing by a car on a country ding Farrell was invited. road, waving to a couple and two chilThe younger Farrell, 64, dren at a second car. On the back is, doesn’t know Bonner, why “Kay Bonner, Philly, USA,â€? and a note apparently penned by her: “Frank, the girls and I, and Frank’s pride and n INTERLINK VOLUNTEERS FAaitchtioIn joy — his car.â€? Searches by The Inquirer proEveryday Heroes Face to Face duced no solution to this trans-AtServices provided by our volunteers help elders and others live independently. lantic puzzle, but did turn up some additional information: Services include: OfďŹ cials at Holy Cross Church Čˆ ”ƒÂ?•’‘”–ƒ–‹‘Â? Čˆ —‹Ž†‹Â?‰ ™Š‡‡Ž…Šƒ‹” ”ƒÂ?’• conďŹ rm that Katherine Bonner and Čˆ ’”‹Â?‰ ›ƒ”† ™‘”Â? Čˆ ƒŽŽ Ž‡ƒˆ ”ƒÂ?‹Â?‰ Francis Nuneviller were married Čˆ ‡Ž’ ™‹–Š •Â?ƒŽŽ Â?‘˜‡• Čˆ ‹Â?‘” Š‘Â?‡ ”‡’ƒ‹”•Ǥ there in 1946. We love the Lewis-Clark Valley.

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 MYSTERY, continued from page 18 Katherine, of Quakertown, died in 2006 at 78, according to her obituary in the Allentown Morning Call. Her funeral was held at St. Agnes Catholic Church in Sellersville. Her husband, Frank, is still alive — an 88-year-old retired truck mechanic in Quakertown. When he and his wife wed, the war had just ended. Nuneviller had served in the Navy Armed Guard, protecting Liberty and merchant ships. In an interview, Nuneviller vividly remembered the war years, but said he could not recall anyone named Albert Farrell. If they met, it would have been one time, at the

wedding. His wife had family in England, Nuneviller said, but all are gone now. “Albert Farrell, no,” he said. “The name’s not familiar to me.” Carol McCool knows the people in the black-and-white photo. And that’s her in the backseat, about age 5, with her sister — and her mother and father standing by the car door. The picture was likely taken in Ohio, at a family gathering. How did the photo end up among the papers of a man in Liverpool? No idea, she said. “The name Farrell didn’t ring any bells,” McCool said. Still, the younger Farrell hopes someone — perhaps a long-ago friend or distant relation — might shed light on papers, and memories, that were precious to his father.

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