Family members and colleagues remember Richard Darby as a solid journalist and a patient teacher. The retired managing editor of the Marion Daily Republican died this morning at Arlington Memorial Hospital in Arlington, Texas.
Darby, who passed away at 6:30 a.m., had been splitting time between his Marion home and the Dallas-Fort Worth area while undergoing treatment for lymphoma. He had been fighting cancer for almost five years. Continue reading
One thing you can count on when veterans get together is an abundance of “War Stories.” One veteran who has an extremely interesting story to tell is Harold “Hap” Emory. Continue reading
James Hugh Felts was born February 1, 1866, in Williamson County, Illinois. He was the son of Martin V. Felts and Rebecca Lucky. His father was a veteran horticulturist and apple man of Southern Illinois. Continue reading
Joseph Fozard was a native of Yorkshire, England, born at Batley January 15, 1853, to Martin Fozard and Sarah Mortimer. His father was a woolen manufacturer in England, and went to work at the same business on coming to this country, about 1859. He settled in New Jersey about the beginning of the Civil War and brought up his son to the same trade. Continue reading
In late February of 1943 American troops were beginning to enter World War II. Although D-Day, the mass invasion of the French coast would not take place until more than a year later, American sailors and pilots were beginning to arrive in the Pacific. Continue reading
