Decatur High School - Ravelings Yearbook (Decatur, IN)

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IN MEMORIAM MILO CHESTER STALTER Milo Chester Stalter, son of Mr. cmd Mrs. Dorus Stalter, was born June 23, 1925. Had Milo continued his high school career, he would hove graduated with the class of 1943. He died on March 14, 1944. He was killed as the result of a fall from a truck while in the performance of duty and in the service of his country. Milo, enlisted in the navy on his seventeenth birthday anniversary, June 23, 1942. He was a junior in the Decatur High School. He re- ceived his boot training and specialist training at the Great Lakes Naval Training Station. Milo C. Stalter EVERETT JOHNSON Everett Johnson, son of Mr. and Mrs. O. T. John- son, was born June 14, 1914, cmd died Dec. 4, 1942. Everett attended the rural schools during the first eight years of his school career. He attended the Decatur High School, Decatur, Indiana, during his freshman and sophomore years. He did not gradu- ate from this school. Everslt entered the army October 5, 1942, through the selective service. He was drowned in the Rogur River, Camp White, Oregon, while training in a boat drill with his company. DOUGLAS H. NEIDIGH (Missing in Action) Douglas H. Neidigh, son of Mr. and Mrs. Dewey Neidigh, has been reported missing in action since January 30, 1944, in Italy. Douglas entered the service April 7, 1943. He left this country in the fall of 1943 and first sow action in Africa, later being transferred to Italy. He was in the First Ranger Outfit. Douglas attended the Decatur public schools and was a junior at the Decatur Junior-Senior High School at the time of entering the service. WILLIAM D. ELZEY William Delma Elzey was born in Adams County, May 17, 1872, and died at his home 321 North Tenth Street, Decatur, Indiana, on December 14, 1943. Mr. Elzey was a former member of the Decatur Police Force, and served in Cuba during the Spanish-American War. In addition to this, Mr. Elzey served his country during World War 1 as a civil service worker at Washington, D. C. Mr. Elzey, during the last fifteen years of his life, was employed by the Decatur Board of Education as a janitor at the Decatur Junior- Senior High School. William D. Elzey SIX

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Jack L. Tricker JACK TRICKER Jack L. Tricker, son of Elmer and Grace Tricker, was born July 21, 1921, in Decatur, Indiana. He was gradu- ated from Decatur High School in 1939, and died Mav 22, 1943. Stolf Sergeant Tricker entered the aerial gunnery branch cf the United States Air Corps and was in service nine months until the time of his death. He was located at Newell Field, United Stales Army Air Ease in Rapids City, South Dakota. He was with Ecmb Squadron 543 and Bomb Group 383. He met his death, along with sev- eral other service men, in cm unexplained mid-air plane explosion. Jack was a former yell-leader in Decatur High School and also served in his senior year as business manager of the Ravelings year book. He left Decatur immediately after his graduation to join his parents who were then living at Sturgis, Michigan. IN MEMORIAM WILLIAM T. IVES William T. Ives, son of Mr. and Mrs. Joy Ives, and husband of Mrs. Jeanette Kolp Ives, was bom April 14, 1919. He was graduated from Wapella High School, Wapella, Illinois, in 1936, attended the Illinois State Normal from 1936 to 1939, ccnd graduated from the Uni- versity of Illinois in 1940 with a B.S. degree. He taught agriculture and physical education for two and one-half years at Decatur High School, Decatur, Indiana. William Ives left Decatur, Indiana, January 9, 1943, to enter the United States Air Corps as an air-cadet. He received training at air fields in San Antonio, Texas, and Enid and Fredericks, Oklahoma. He was killed along with another air-cadet in a trainer plane crash at Fred- ericks, Oklahoma, September 25, 1943. Bill was within six weeks of hcndng acquired his wings and second lieutenancy-ship at the time of his fatal crash. His wings were posthumously awarded to his widow, Mrs. Jeannette Ives, who now resides in Clin- ton, Illinois. William T. Ives Five

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IN MEMORIAM LENORA VmCINIA STAUFFER Lenora Virginia Stcaaffer, daughter of Thelma and Gottlieb Staufier, was born September 29, 1926, at Decatur, Indiana, and died June 25, 1943, at the home of her poronts on 228 North Sixth St. Lenora attended both grade and high school crt Decatur, Indiana, during her school life and was a sophomore at the time of her passing away. Had Lenora been permitted to have finished her public school days, she would have graduated with the class of 1945. Lenora Virginia Staulfer MARY KATHRYN VIAN Mary Kathryn Vian, daughter of Nellie and Glen Vian, was born in Decatur, Indiana, on July 24, 1929, and died at Decatur, Indiana, at the home of her parents, 417 Line Street on October 18, 1943. Mary Kathryn was a member of Junior High School and was en- rolled in the eighth grade at the time of her death. V-::- € MAX EDSON MELCHI Max Edson Melchi, son of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Melchi, was born July 4, 1930, in Decatur, Indiana, and died March 31, 1944, at the Adams County Memorial Hospital, Decatur. Max attended the Decatur grade schools and at the time of his death was a member of the eighth grade at the Decatur Junior-Senior High School. Max held the unusual distinction of being neither tardy nor absent during his entire school life. Max E. Melchi Seven