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The South County Historical Society
would like to Thank and Pay Tribute
to our WWII and other Veterans



WWII


U. S. Army

 

Will Young, husband of Charlotte Young, SCHS member

Frank Gularte, Conrow Film Archive, Served with Gen. Patton, killed by sniper in France

Leon, Arnel, and Huston Turner, brothers, Conrow Film Archive

Orville Schultz, 69th Infantry Division, SCHS member

George Matsuoka, Military Intelligence, friend of H. Hayashi

H. E. (Robby) Robinson, Corps of Engineers, SCHS member

Francis Fink, SCHS member

Joe Kobara, Military Intelligence, friend of H. Hayashi

Richard N. (Dick) McCoy, friend of G. Bennett, SCHS Life member

William Matousek, friend of Dick Blankenburg, SCHS Life member

Donald Madsen, husband of Clara Madsen, SCHS member, Uniform on display at Heritage House Museum

Charles Ruedi, brother of Clara Madsen,  SCHS member, Served with Gen. Patton

Nick Annecchini, friend of G. Bennett, SCHS Life member

Ben Fuchiwaki, Military Intelligence, friend of H. Hayashi

Howard Mankins, SCHS Life Member

Harold Mankins, SCHS Life Member

Allan Mankins, brother of Howard & Harold, SCHS Life members

Asa Porter, Jr., father of Charles Porter, SCHS member, Uniform on display at Heritage House Museum

Loren Nicholson,  SCHS Life Member, Past President, Battle of the Bulge, 102nd Infantry Division

Jerome Robertson, husband of Ellie Robertson, SCHS member, Pearl Harbor Survivor

Mits Fukahara, Tank Corps, friend of H. Hayashi

Milton Madsen, brother-in-law of Clara Madsen, SCHS member

Jim Dowell, Conrow Film Archive

James Nakamura, Military Intelligence, friend of H. Hayashi

Dick Enos, Conrow Film Archive

Towru Kobara, friend of H. Hayashi

Halden Montgomery, Conrow Film Archive

Ralph Beck, SCHS Life member

Saburo Ikeda, friend of G. Bennett, SCHS Life member

Preston (Prep) Jones, Conrow Film Archive

Pete and Ernie Brum, brothers, friends of G. Bennett, SCHS Life member

Lewis Davis, SCHS member

Ed Brown,  Conrow Film Archive

George Nakamura, friend of G. Bennett, SCHS Life member, Military Intelligence Service

Ben Dohi, friend of G. Bennett, SCHS Life member, Military Intelligence Service

Russell Hoff, Conrow Film Archive, Liberator, German Concentration Camp

Hilo Fuchiwaki, friend of D. Gullickson, SCHS Life member, Interpreter for General MacArthur

Maxine Bruce, Nurse, Conrow Film Archive

Vernon Fredericks, SCHS Life member

Ben Tsutsumi, friend of G. Bennett, SCHS Life member, Military Intelligence Service

R. James Moore, Conrow Film Archive

Haruo Hayashi, friend of D. Gullickson, SCHS Life member

Akio Hayashi, friend of G. Bennett, SCHS Life member, Military Intelligence Service

Harry Chapek, Conrow Film Archive, Killed in action, Germany

Henry Dyer, friend of Gordon/Manetta Bennett, SCHS Life members, Medical Corps

Catherine Sanford, Nurse, friend of G. Bennett, SCHS Life member

Harold Hilton, brother of Anna Ralph, SCHS Life member

Edward Theroux, brother-in-law of Wilda Theroux, SCHS member

Banks Clayton Jr. 1943-1945, England and France, Good Fried of Vera Holmes, British Army 1944-45



U. S. Army Air Corps

W.A. Hubbard, husband of Jean Hubbard, SCHS member, 8th & 15th Air Corps, 35 missions of Europe, stationed in England and Italy

Al Spierling, 35 missions over Europe, SCHS member

Wayne Ripley, England, 1943-1946

Veronica Holmes Ripley, British A.T.S., 1944-1945

Preston Jones, brother of Anita Jones Garcia, SCHS member

Norman J. Feller, husband of Mary Ann Feller, SCHS Life member

Leo Harloe, brother of Norma Harloe, SCHS Life member

Mario Tognazzini, SCHS member

William (Bill) Smith, SCHS Life member

Olaf Shipstead, SCHS member

Frank Schimandle, friend of D. Blankenburg, SCHS Life member

George McDonald, friend of D. Blankenburg, SCHS Life member

Payton Bryan, SCHS member

Philip Maniaci, German POW, SCHS member

Dixon Conrad, Conrow Film Archive

J. E. Wildharber, brother of Manetta Bennett, SCHS Life member, Died 1942, POW camp, Cubanatuan 2, Philippines

Tom Steele, Conrow Film Archive

Jerry Bennett, brother of Gordon Bennett, SCHS Life member

Jack Barker, Conrow Film Archive

James A. Fairbanks, husband of Marilynn, SCHS member

Bill Clark, Gunnery Expert, brother of Mary Fernamburg, SCHS Life member, Served with Gen. Hap Arnold, Washington, D.C.


U. S. Navy


Gus Berger, SCHS member, served Adak, Aleutian Islands '46 -'49 US Navy, Manila, Phillipine Islands '51 - '53 US Navy Reserve

Robert Brown, SCHS member, husband of Betty Brown, served Banana River NAS '43-'46

Kenneth Jones, brother of Anita Jones Garcia, SCHS member

Albert Lopez, Conrow Film Archive

Tony Marsalek, brother-in-law of Tillie M. Ritchie, Doorknob collection on display,  Heritage House Museum

Robert Trybom, SCHS member

Dutch Freymoyer, Conrow Film Archive

Edith Schrader, WAVE, friend of Wm. Doose, SCHS member

Tom Grey, Conrow Film Archive

James Swall, husband of Laura, SCHS Life member

Bill Houser, Conrow Film Archive

William Doose, SCHS member

Rocky Dana, Conrow Film Archive

Don Gullickson, SCHS Life member, Uniform on display at Heritage House Museum

Angelo Annecchini, Conrow Film Archive

Dan Sanford, friend of G. Bennett, SCHS Life member

Jim Miller, Conrow Film Archive

Martin Dempsey, SCHS member

Don Baxter, Conrow Film Archive

Louis Murphy, Conrow Film Archive

Neal L. Dyste, SCHS member

Newman Woods, Conrow Film Archive

Oscar and Frank Lofquist, brothers, Conrow Film Archive

Pinky Montgomery, Conrow Film Archive

K. L. Phillips, Conrow Film Archive

Gordon Bennett, SCHS Life member

E. G. Dana, Conrow Film Archive

Cecil Montgomery, brother-in-law of Georgie O’Connor, SCHS member

Charles and Calvin Thurman, brothers, Conrow Film Archive

Raymond Barbezat, husband of Shirley, SCHS member, Pearl Harbor Survivor, 1941

Kenyon Conrow, Conrow Film Archive

Bert Cattoir, husband of Marie, Conrow Film Archive

Joe Rapose, Conrow Film Archive

Earl Wood, SCHS member

Colvin Bertrem, friend of Anna Ralph, SCHS Life member

Louis Murphy, Conrow Film Archive

 

U. S. Coast Guard

Frances Woodward, Conrow Film Archive

Bill O’Connor , SCHS member

 

U. S. Marine Corp

Michael Kodaj, husband of Ruth Kodaj, SCHS member, participated at Eniwetok, Guam and Okinawa

John Loomis, SCHS Life member, Uniform on display, Heritage House

Frederick N. Jessen, brother of Ginny Kraatz, SCHS Life member, Killed in action, Okinawa, June 1945.

Archibald M. Harloe, brother of Norma Harloe, SCHS Life Member

Frank Coyle, Conrow Film Archives,   Killed in action, Guam

Thelma Murray Anderson, Conrow Film Archive,   Uniform on display, Heritage House

Arthur Renshaw, Conrow Film Archive

John Richerson, friend of John Loomis, SCHS Life member

Ted Quaresma, Conrow Film Archive

 

U.S. Merchant Marine

 

Tom Ralph, husband of Anna, SCHS Life member

Kenneth Miller, friend of G. Bennett, SCHS Life member


                                                        Many thanks to Jane Line who so graciously compiled this list to tribute our WWII Veterans.

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I would like to thank those of you who shared your stories with me while this list of WWII Veterans was being compiled.   I would also like to thank Gordon and Manetta Bennett and Don Gullickson for assisting me with the Clayton Conrow Film Archive, an archival film documenting many of the men and women who served from the Arroyo Grande, Oceano, Pismo Beach, Halcyon, Nipomo and surrounding communities. 

                                                                                                    Jane Line

 

Special Tributes

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Otis W. Scottborn 1844 - 1923

Otis,a Civil War Medal of Honor Winner is buried in the Arroyo Grande Cemetary.
A special blue flag flew over his grave on Memorial Day.
There are only two blue flags flying in California.

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There is nothing more personally rewarding than learning about and disseminating the history of our area.  While doing my research I came across an article written in the Morning Tribune in 1898.  I find it fitting that Thos. Whiteley Sr. be memorialized and honored on our tribute page.  If you have any knowledge of the location of Mr. Whiteley’s descendants, please let me know. 


                                                                                                    Thank you, Vivian

 

As written in the Morning Tribune 1898.....

OLD SOLDIER DEAD.     THOS. WHITELEY SR. SUMMONED BY THE FINAL ROLL CALL.



The last roll call has summoned to the eternal camping ground another of our old soldiers.

The news reached this city early yesterday morning of the death of Thos. Whiteley Sr., which occurred about 11 o’clock Sunday night.

Mr. Whiteley was past 77 years of age and for some years past had walked with feeble step. There was not a person in the Arroyo Grande valley but who knew this aged veteran. His silvery locks were deeply respected by all.

Deceased was a member of Colonel Harper Post, G.A.R. of Arroyo Grande, and many have seen him join with his comrades upon each Memorial day in paying respect to the honored dead.

He was a true, patriotic citizen and belonged to that class who are deeply missed when they step to the other shore.

The funeral occurs today at 2 p.m. under the auspices of the above named post.


The fees collected by County Recorder Fiedler for February amounted to $262.45.

 

THEY NAMED IT CAMP WHITELEY.

IN HONOR OF A DECEASED SOLDIER OF ARROYO GRANDE.

Notes Around the Headquarters of the Veterans at Sycamore Springs.

 

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