Albion Veterans Oral History Project and Honor Roll

 

 National Guard Deployment to Cuba from Armory, Albion, Michigan

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Veterans who have participated in Oral History Project

World War II

  • Arthur Anderson

  • Harold Anthony

  • Harry Arquette

  • Betty (McDermid) Baker

  • Philip Baldwin

  • Donald Bienz

  • Victor Buinowski

  • Glen C. Childs

  • Robert Clark

  • Paul Cook

  • Floyd Dean

  • Bryan Downey

  • Earl Dulaney

  • Robert Geyer

  • Frank Grooms

  • Barbara (Bostwick) Hallock

  • James W. Hallock

  • Hiram Herrick

  • Finis Holt

  • Robert Holt

  • Dorothy Huber

  • John Huber

  • Howard Huffman

  • Wilbur King

  • Rolland Kissinger

  • Lawrence Merrild

  • Otis Meyers

  • Ellery Morgan

  • Moses Musquiz

  • John Parker

  • Kenneth Prescott

  • Gilbert Rausch

  • Joe Romanchuk

  • Russell Rowan

  • Andrew Sapala

  • Robert O. Schultz

  • Gilford Schneider

  • John Sharp

  • Clifford Parker Smith

  • Charles Snyder

  • Marion Champion Spence

  • Ewell Stowell

  • Richard T. Stahl

  • Claire Torrey

  • D. W. Torrey

  • Wayne VanSchoick

  • William Doyle Vickers

  • Guy Vitale

  • Keith Waito

  • Richard Weatherford

  • John Zasucha

KOREA

  • Andrew Kooi

  • Harold Kuder

  • Scott Cracraft

  • Calvin Wheeler

  • Gilford E. Schneider

VIETNAM

  • David Farley

  • John Geyer

  • Leroy Schmidt

GRENADA

  • Marion Seaton

PERSIAN GULF

  • Marion Seaton

 

Albion's  Welcome Home Parade, World War I 
 Albion Historical Society Collection

The Local History Room is seeking assistance from  Albion area veterans of all conflicts and branches of service willing to participate in an oral history project.  Interviews are videotaped for the local history archives and edited for broadcast on Educational Access Television (Channel 10).  If you are interested in assisting with this project, e-mail the Albion District Library   or telephone  517/630-3368 on Tuesday 10 to 2 p.m., Wednesday and Thursday from 3 to 7 p.m. or Sunday from 1 to 5 p.m. Join the growing list of participants who have shared their experiences for researchers and future generations.  Robert Geyer and Guy Vitale have provided volunteer assistance for this project.   

Honor Roll

The Local History Room has compiled an Honor Roll of local men and women who have war-time service to our country.  The list includes soldiers beginning with the Revolutionary War.   To add to this resource or for additional  information  regarding veterans listed, contact the Local History Room or call  517/630/3368. 

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Link to Veteran Database

The records for this database are compiled from lists and records available in the Local History Room.  Among the  sources used are:   Local History Room obituary, cemetery, and surname files; Albion Recorder files; World War II list compiled by James Frye, historian of Albion American Legion; compilation loaned by Albion chapter of Veteran of Foreign Wars; Grand Army of the Republic records at Local History Room;  photograph file compiled by William Blomquist for Albion Historical Society exhibit currently on display at Gardner House Museum.

Veteran Project Broadcast Schedule     Channel 10 -- Educational Access Television (Millennium Cable)

Robert Geyer, Coordinator

Leslie K. Dick, videographer & editor
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