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What Did You Do During The War Mom?

January 21, 2011 by Carol Yates Wilkerson

Esther Bielmeir Boyd Photo credit – Kitsap Sun We live in a military community here in the Bremerton-Port Orchard area, and the history of our county is peppered with those who have worked at the Naval Shipyard. This week one of our “Rosie the Riveters”, Pat King Harms was in the Kitsap Sun article [...]

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Otto Family Had Five in World War II

August 21, 2010 by Carol Yates Wilkerson

All Came Home (click on image until it is viewable full-sized) All of these men are, or were, my husband Jim’s uncles from his mother Mary Jane Otto Wilkerson’s side of the family. Going by the dates mentioned in the article, it might have been written in 1944. As far as I know, all of [...]

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Tombstone Tuesday – Russell W. Volckmann

July 27, 2010 by Carol Yates Wilkerson

On a recent visit to Iowa my husband Jim found the gravestone of Russell William Volckmann that I have written about several times in this blog. The headstone is located in Springdale Cemetery, Clinton, Iowa (FindAGrave location). There are several Volckmanns buried in the same general area around the General’s headstone. Carol Yates Wilkerson on [...]