Remember When 2.3.2015
July 28, 2016 at 4:25 p.m.
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Capt. Linda Hutton served in the Pentagon on the staff of the chief of naval operations, retiring in October 2001. During her 27-year naval career, she accumulated nearly 400 day and night carrier landings and more than 4,500 flight hours, becoming the seventh woman to earn naval aviator wings in March 1976 and the first to assume command of an Atlantic fleet carrier aviation squadron. Today she is the first woman priest to be ordained in the Episcopal Church of Northern Indiana, and the first to come to St. Anne’s parish, Warsaw.
More than 180 dentists statewide participated in the third annual Give Kids a Smile Day. Locally: Drs. Lena Fermback, Charles and Steven Hollar, William Myers, Beth Schwinn, William Stofer and Karen Scripture.
25 Years Ago
Subway, North Detroit, was visited by the chain’s founders, Fred DeLuca and his wife, Lucy. Founded in 1965, a franchise was begun in 1974. Danny Gregory is owner of the Detroit Street store; Roz Morgan is manager and John Marty general manager.
Norm Weirick, manager of Kline’s Department Store, 114 E. Market St., has accepted a commendation certificate for its new awnings from Mark Bishopp, Warsaw Community Development Corporation board member. WCDC recognizes building improvements.
Mike Stearley, 1979 Warsaw Community High School graduate, was promoted at United Telephone Jan. 22.
Royalite promotions: Walter Wilson – 23 years at the Warsaw plant, 13 in the lab; Agnese Burnau – has worked 11 years in the personnel field.
50 Years Ago
Paul Conkle, chairman of the Kosciusko County Democratic party, is leaving Sunday with his wife, Ruby, and two teenage daughters, Cindy and Lynn Ann, to join thousands of other visitors at the inaugural celebrations at the Capitol next week. They will attend a reception for Vice President and Mrs. Hubert Humphrey and a ball in honor of President and Mrs. Johnson. Ruby and her daughters chose the gowns, gloves and pumps they will wear to the ball. They even bought spanking new umbrellas. Conkle will wear a black tie, since “it’s good enough for Lyndon.”
Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Bucher, Milford, are planning to attend the inaugural festivities in Washington. Bucher is a precinct committeeman and his wife is president of the Kosciusko County Democratic Women’s organization.
75 Years Ago
Wed for 57 years on Jan. 13, Mr. and Mrs. John McFarren, of near Packerton, have been residents of Kosciusko County since their marriage in 1881. McFarren, 81, and the former Sarah Harmon, 76, have four children: C.R., P.D, Mrs. Frank Fruit and Mrs. Harry Zellers; 18 grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.
Estella Shaffer, 80, Milford, is senior partner in the Milford Robe & Tanning Co., and performs her duties by working nearly nine hours per day. She is a lifetime resident of the Milford vicinity, was born June 10, 1859, in Ohio, and migrated with her parents to near Milford when 3 months old. She is the mother of Mrs. James Lawburgh, Milford.
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Capt. Linda Hutton served in the Pentagon on the staff of the chief of naval operations, retiring in October 2001. During her 27-year naval career, she accumulated nearly 400 day and night carrier landings and more than 4,500 flight hours, becoming the seventh woman to earn naval aviator wings in March 1976 and the first to assume command of an Atlantic fleet carrier aviation squadron. Today she is the first woman priest to be ordained in the Episcopal Church of Northern Indiana, and the first to come to St. Anne’s parish, Warsaw.
More than 180 dentists statewide participated in the third annual Give Kids a Smile Day. Locally: Drs. Lena Fermback, Charles and Steven Hollar, William Myers, Beth Schwinn, William Stofer and Karen Scripture.
25 Years Ago
Subway, North Detroit, was visited by the chain’s founders, Fred DeLuca and his wife, Lucy. Founded in 1965, a franchise was begun in 1974. Danny Gregory is owner of the Detroit Street store; Roz Morgan is manager and John Marty general manager.
Norm Weirick, manager of Kline’s Department Store, 114 E. Market St., has accepted a commendation certificate for its new awnings from Mark Bishopp, Warsaw Community Development Corporation board member. WCDC recognizes building improvements.
Mike Stearley, 1979 Warsaw Community High School graduate, was promoted at United Telephone Jan. 22.
Royalite promotions: Walter Wilson – 23 years at the Warsaw plant, 13 in the lab; Agnese Burnau – has worked 11 years in the personnel field.
50 Years Ago
Paul Conkle, chairman of the Kosciusko County Democratic party, is leaving Sunday with his wife, Ruby, and two teenage daughters, Cindy and Lynn Ann, to join thousands of other visitors at the inaugural celebrations at the Capitol next week. They will attend a reception for Vice President and Mrs. Hubert Humphrey and a ball in honor of President and Mrs. Johnson. Ruby and her daughters chose the gowns, gloves and pumps they will wear to the ball. They even bought spanking new umbrellas. Conkle will wear a black tie, since “it’s good enough for Lyndon.”
Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Bucher, Milford, are planning to attend the inaugural festivities in Washington. Bucher is a precinct committeeman and his wife is president of the Kosciusko County Democratic Women’s organization.
75 Years Ago
Wed for 57 years on Jan. 13, Mr. and Mrs. John McFarren, of near Packerton, have been residents of Kosciusko County since their marriage in 1881. McFarren, 81, and the former Sarah Harmon, 76, have four children: C.R., P.D, Mrs. Frank Fruit and Mrs. Harry Zellers; 18 grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.
Estella Shaffer, 80, Milford, is senior partner in the Milford Robe & Tanning Co., and performs her duties by working nearly nine hours per day. She is a lifetime resident of the Milford vicinity, was born June 10, 1859, in Ohio, and migrated with her parents to near Milford when 3 months old. She is the mother of Mrs. James Lawburgh, Milford.
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