Remember When 2.29.08

July 28, 2016 at 4:25 p.m.

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10 Years Ago

February 29 1998

    When 82-year-old Juanita Warner of Warsaw became a great-great-grandmother on Dec. 22, she accomplished a feat for which she never could have planned.

The birth of Dixie Leigh Wilkinson gave Warner a chance to pose for the third five-generation picture of her lifetime.

25 Years Ago

February 29 1983

    Warsaw Elks Lodge 802 has named Gerald William Yeager as January Teenager of the Month. Yeager, 18, son of Dixie and Charles Yeager, is a senior at Warsaw Community High School.

He has participated in varsity football and baseball for three years. He was also a member of the school newspaper staff and boys cheerblock.

50 Years Ago

February 29 1958

    SP 3 Chauncey L. Bennett, son of Ruth Bennett, Burket, has completed an eight-week course for dental assistants at the army medical service school, Fort Sam Houston, Texas. Chauncey has been in service one year, took his basic at Fort Carson, Colo. He's a 1953 graduate of Burket High School and worked for Jomac Co. in Warsaw.


75 Years Ago

February 29 1933

    Eli Keplinger, of 1224 E. Main St., is the owner of a government land grant conveyance paper signed by President Andrew Jackson in 1830 conveying a quarter section of Ohio land to Peter Hack, grandfather of Mr. Keplinger. The bold signature of President "Old Hickory" Jackson is in the President's own handwriting, made 103 years ago and is highly prized by Keplinger.

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10 Years Ago

February 29 1998

    When 82-year-old Juanita Warner of Warsaw became a great-great-grandmother on Dec. 22, she accomplished a feat for which she never could have planned.

The birth of Dixie Leigh Wilkinson gave Warner a chance to pose for the third five-generation picture of her lifetime.

25 Years Ago

February 29 1983

    Warsaw Elks Lodge 802 has named Gerald William Yeager as January Teenager of the Month. Yeager, 18, son of Dixie and Charles Yeager, is a senior at Warsaw Community High School.

He has participated in varsity football and baseball for three years. He was also a member of the school newspaper staff and boys cheerblock.

50 Years Ago

February 29 1958

    SP 3 Chauncey L. Bennett, son of Ruth Bennett, Burket, has completed an eight-week course for dental assistants at the army medical service school, Fort Sam Houston, Texas. Chauncey has been in service one year, took his basic at Fort Carson, Colo. He's a 1953 graduate of Burket High School and worked for Jomac Co. in Warsaw.


75 Years Ago

February 29 1933

    Eli Keplinger, of 1224 E. Main St., is the owner of a government land grant conveyance paper signed by President Andrew Jackson in 1830 conveying a quarter section of Ohio land to Peter Hack, grandfather of Mr. Keplinger. The bold signature of President "Old Hickory" Jackson is in the President's own handwriting, made 103 years ago and is highly prized by Keplinger.

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