Column: World War I dog tag finds a home in Chula Vista
Dick Roppé and his wife, Lynn. When they were viewing the quiz show’s Teachers Tournament last June, the telecast raised one question for them that wasn’t answered. What was so familiar about the competitor from Virginia — a high school band and choir instructor named Will Satterwhite Jr.? It soon dawned on Roppé that he possessed a dog tag, military medal and other memorabilia that belonged to a World War I soldier named Gilbert H. Satterwhite. These items had been passed down by his grandfather’s second wife, Helen Eggers Satterwhite, who was Gilbert’s widow. With that last ...
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