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Remembering “Little O”
By John Kelley Editor Background The genesis of this story began on the evening of Saturday, May 17th while on my way to cover the Ashland Community Theater’s debut presentation at the Ashland Middle School. I was early, parked my car in the large lot, and walked slowly along the sidewalk while enjoying the pleasant
evening temperature. Then, I noticed something in the ground, a marker of some sort beneath a flowering crabapple tree. I stepped toward it, and realized it was a memorial carved in granite. I felt a sadness because the girl had died when she was no more than 23. Her name was Maria Olivieri Hakansson. I immediately recognized her last name. It was a very special date for Carl and After publishing a Maria at her Junior Prom in 1972. recent story on SGT that it was his first wife. Carl Joseph A. Seaman, had the stone made about 10 I had received an email years ago. At the time of Maabout the soldier-hero from a person named Carl ria’s death, he played the guitar in a band that had played Hakansson. a ‘gig’ on the evening prior to The next day, I wrote to Maria’s death. The band had Carl, and inquired about decided to use the proceeds the person honored on from their performance on the stone. He replied that night to purchase a tree Maria was a true scholar, by which to remember Maria. At both the planting of the but she followed her heart when it came to her selection of college studies.
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