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Wednesday, September 2, 2015 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
VETERANS:
All did their part in
a titanic struggle
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end of the war converting
his ship into a troop carrier
to transport men back to the
States after the war.
Marvin is married to
Margie, and they have a son,
John Tehan. Joe is married to
Bonnie, and they have two
children and three grandchil-
dren. Joe also worked at the
Salem Fire Department while
raising his family.
Another Navy veteran of
World War II is Cecil Hector,
who served from 1943 to
1951 in the Pacific Theater.
He was trained as an avia-
tion metalsmith. Cecil has a
long record with the Navy,
with 20 years service. Then
he transferred to the Air Force
for four years and then the
Army for seven years, where
he worked on telephone
communications in Berlin,
Germany.
Cecil has a daughter,
Kathaleen, living close by in
Sisters.
Army veterans from
World War II include Robert
Stephenson and Richard
Pennington. Richard served
in Okinawa and Korea from
1942 to 1946 as an ordnance
handler, repairing 37mm can-
non and hauling ammo and
supplies back and forth from
the ship to the front battle
lines.
Bob Stephenson was
infantry, serving from 1943
to 1946. According to his
wife, Pat, he was “in the thick
of it,” fighting the Japanese
Army on Okinawa and
Guam. Richard and Bob live
at Absolute Serenity assisted-
living facility. Bob and Pat
have four children.
Representing the Army
Air Corps, Sisters has veter-
ans John Turner and Russell
Williams, who flew over
Europe in World War II. John
was a B-17 gunner and served
in the Air Corps from 1943 to
1945, then joined the Army
for 28 years. Russell was a
navigator on board a B-24
bomber and flew some of the
last sorties of the war. Russell
enlisted in 1943, completed
basic training and then was
chosen to go to flight school
to become an officer and
navigator, graduating in June
1944.
Russell flew 31 bombing
missions in Germany in 15
different B-24s. He only had
one crash-landing, which all
his buddies survived.
John Turner is married
to Barbara, has three chil-
dren and four grandchildren.
Russell is married to Nancy.
Jack Scheffer Kinsey
graduated from Weirton,
West Virginia, high school
in 1943 and volunteered for
the U.S. Navy in October the
same year. He was assigned
to Seabee’s 32nd Special
Construction Battalion and
arrived at his wartime duty
station with the 6th Marine
Division on the island of
photo by richard Miller
Jack kinsey at home in Sisters.
Samar in the Pacific Theater.
Jack was a communication
specialist responsible for
receiving and transmitting
war messages by Morse code
and other means. When asked
how he heard about the end
of the war, Jack replied, “The
Army commo unit on the hill
above us came running down
yelling, ‘The Japanese have
capitulated! The Japanese
have capitulated!’ All
celebrated with appropriate
liquid refreshments!”
Regarding his thoughts
about what he did during
World War II, Jack said, “I
would not want to do it again,
but I am very proud of what
I contributed to our victory!”
Two months later Jack
boarded a freighter and sailed
to Tsingtao, China, where
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