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                  <text>HASTINGS HIGH SCHOOL

MEMORIAL SERVICE
Wednesday, May 29, 1946

Central Auditorium
Piano Prelude

Richard Branch

Flag Salute

(By the Assembly)
Kingsley Zerbel

(By the Assembly)

Hymn: “America”
Mrs. Lower

Our father
:rs’ God, to thee,
Author off Liberty,
To Thee we sing:
Long may our land be bright,
b~;
With freedom
iom’s holy light;
Protect us by Thy might,
Great God our King!

My country, ’tis of thee,
Sweet land of liberty,
Of thee I sing:
Land where my fathers died!
Land of the Pilgrims’ pride!
From every mountain side
Let freedom ring!
Those We Remember:

Fred McDonald

'Names of Hastings High School students who gave their lives in World War II

Robert Gardner
Martin Hawthorne
Robert Henney
Ernest Howell
Merrill Isham
Frank (Bob) Kelly
Neil Kidder
Estle King
Hubert McCallum

Cleo Card
Charles Casey
George Cash more
Lewis Castle
Orville Cooley
Richard Babcock
Bernard Davis
William DeCou
James Dibble

Michael McPharlin
Robert Reid
Frank Rogers
Howard Shellington
Cleon Smith
DeForest Snyder
Duane Stamm
Merle Tasker
Wesley VandenBerg

Words in Remembrance

Raymond Kenyon

Poems in Remembrance
Songs in Remembrance

Mrs. Hamilton

.

.

(By the High School Choir)

Mrs. Lower

“Our Flag”

.

O’Hara

“Madam Jeanette”

Murray

Mr. King

Talk: “War is Not Romantic”
Hymn: “America the Beautiful”

. (By the Assembly)
Mrs. Lower

O beautiful for spacious skies,
For amber waves of grain,
For purple mountain majesties,
Above the fruited plain.
America! America!
God shed His grace on thee,
And crown thy good with broth
brotherhood
From sea to shining sea.

O beautiful for heroes proved
In liberating strife,
Who more than self their country loved,
And mercy more than life
America! America!
May God thy gold refine
Till all success be nobleness
And every gain divine.

(By the Assembly)

The Lord’s Prayer

Fred McDonald
Our Father who art in Heaven, hallowed by Thy' Name.
Thy Kingdom come, Thy Will be done on earth as
as it is in Heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive ius our debts as we forgive
our debtors. And lead us not into temptation,, but deliver us from evil,
For thine is the Kingdom, and the Power, and the Glory forever, Amen.

Piano Postlude

Richard Branch

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                <text>Typically pilots rotated home after their 50th mission. James took off for his 49th mission on Septemebr 9, 1943, and never returned.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He was shot down on a straffing run near the town of Padula, Italy. Initially there was much confusion amongst the other P-38 pilots, and it was thought James survivied and may have been taken prisoner.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ultimately it was discovered that James had been shot down and then killed by German soldiers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;James was ultiamtely brought home and buried in Mt. Hope Cemetery in Middleville, Michigan. See information on his gravesite at &lt;a href="https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/40312090/james-p-dibble" target="_blank" title="James P. Dibble's Gravesite" rel="noreferrer noopener"&gt;FindAGrave.com&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;See reports, documents and letters around James' missing in action status and then the determination that he was killed in action. Included are letters from the Army to his wife Maxine and parents, newspaper clippings and local memorials.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Jump to other sections of the collection:
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