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National headlines
• ‘US Warplanes Pound Sicilian Airfield, City’
”(AP) Shattering new assaults on Italy’s ‘Gibraltar’ at Pantelleria and a British commando attack on Lampedusa island were announced by Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower’s headquarters today, while in London the belief persisted that momentous operations were imminent.”
However you spell his name, Pagett has served his country for many years in many ways
From Asia to Europe to Clinton Co.
Editor’s Note: This is the second of periodic profiles of Clinton County veterans, written by Paul Butler for the News Journal.
On Sept. 10, 1926 a few years after World War I ended Germany joined the League of Nations.
Exactly one week earlier in the United States a future member of the post-World War
II occupation force of Germany had been born in America.
The aforementioned, first intergovernmental world peace organization and the National Socialist German Workers Party (Nazi Party) lasted 26 and 25 years, respectively.
Lessons of life and love: Local couple married nearly 70 years die same day
By Gary Huffenberger - ghuffenberger@wnewsj.com
Dan Foland and Marjorie Haidet were married in Wilmington on Feb. 2, 1951, nearly 70 years ago.
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They met in second grade and were married nearly 70 years when they died Tuesday within five hours of each other, both of COVID-19 complications.
Dan Foland and his wife Marjorie were 90 and now were residing in the Ohio Living Quaker Heights Care Community in Waynesville, after living almost all their married life on a State Route 134 South farm in Clinton County.
As to their primary-grades introduction to one another, their daughter Susan Ertel said, “My mom just thought my dad was just the cutest boy in her class.” There’s an intermission to this otherwise lifelong love story when Marjorie’s family, which relocated frequently because her father was a salesman, moved to Michigan.
Lessons of life and love: Local couple married nearly 70 years die same day
By Gary Huffenberger - ghuffenberger@wnewsj.com
Marjorie and Dan Foland enjoy themselves for the 2017 wedding of a grandson.
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Dan Foland and Marjorie Haidet were married in Wilmington on Feb. 2, 1951, nearly 70 years ago.
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They met in second grade and were married nearly 70 years when they died Tuesday within five hours of each other, both of COVID-19 complications.
Dan Foland and his wife Marjorie were 90 and now were residing in the Ohio Living Quaker Heights Care Community in Waynesville, after living almost all their married life on a State Route 134 South farm in Clinton County.