COTTAGE GROVE SENTINEL November 8, 2017 C7
Honoring the heroes in our midst
Yoncalla High School
Salutes our Veterans!
Dennis R.
Stevenson
Bremerton, Wash.
Ron
Turpin
Sergeant, US
Army
April 12, 1967 to
April 5, 1969
Fort Lewis, Mo.,
transferred to US
Army Reserve
GO EAGLE S!
Al
Stovall
Navy/Air
Force
Aviation
Radioman
Nov. 1942
to Jan. 1946
South
Pacifi c, New
Mexico,
Hawaii, Fort
Thank you
Veterans!
(Yneme) CA
Received: Asiatic Pacifi c Rib-
bon, American Area Ribbon,
Victory Ribbon, Good Conduct
Medal.
Peter Szeke-
ly
SOUTH LANE COUNTY
FIRE & RESCUE
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Navy
April 1967-April
1970
San Diego, USS
Washburn — Na-
val Support Activities — Da-
Nang, Vietnam, Camp Tien Sha
Joel Turpin
US Navy
Feb. 1969 to Feb. 1973
Long Beach, Cal., Vietnam,
Sgt. (E-5),
USMC
June 1962 to
July 1968
Camp
Pendleton,
Okinawa,
Bremerton,
Wash., Vietnam
Wounded in action, Vietnam
Terry Neil Turpin
Marine
Corpo-
ral
Sept.
1965 to
March
1967
Vietnam
Purple Heart
Leonard Waitman
U.S. Army
Air Corps
European
Theater
Legion
of Merit,
American
Defense
Service
Medal, Eu-
ropean-Afri-
can-Middle
Eastern
Campaign Medal with seven
stars, Army Expeditionary
Force, Good Conduct Medal,
American Campaign Medal,
World War II Victory Medal,
James M. Gaethle
Community Public Education:
• CPR/AED
• Heart Attack Recognition
• Fall Prevention • Stroke Prevention
• Fire Prevention • Fire Extinguishers
• Fire-Med Membership
U.S. Army, Spec-5 served from Novem-
ber 1969-July 1972 in Fort Lewis, Vietman
as an engineer and
dump truck driver.
Presidential Citation, Overseas
Service bars
Rifl e Medal, Veterans Medal of
Honor
Larry B. Watkins
U.S. Air
Force
E-4 Sergeant
Nov. 1968 to
Aug. 1972
Fairchild Air
Force Base,
Anderson Air
Force Base,
Guam, Fairbanks, AK
Served as a Jet Engine Tech-
nician on B-52 bombers and
KC135 tankers. Also trained
on Hounddog missiles. Spent
all duty with the Strategic Air
Command.
Stephen Willis
U.S.
Army
Rank: SP4
May 17,
1971-June
24, 1974
Basic —
Ft. Lewis,
WA; Ft.
Eustis,
VA; Nuremberg, Germany, Ft.
Hood, TX
Victor
Wilson
Corporal,
U.S. Army,
1951-53
Ft. Rucker,
Ala. And
Darmstadt,
Germany
Overseas
Medal,
Clarence A.
Wahlstrom
US Navy
Submarine
Service
TMC(S5)
E7
March
1948-Oct.
1969
USS Cabe-
zon (1949-
50); USS Bashaw (1950-52);
USS Scabbardfi sh (1952-53);
USS Caiman (1954-55); USS
Bream (1955-56); USS Tiru
(1956-59); NAD Westloch
(1595-61); USS Sterlet (1961-
63); NAS Miramar (1963-65);
USS Rock (1965-67) USS
Sabalo (1967-68); USS Bashaw
(1968-69)
John Rodger
Ellingson
U.S. Army, Private served
from 1951 to 1953 in California
and Washington. As Jack was
fl ying from California to go to
the Korean War, the war ended.
He was based in Washington
state to fi nish his committment
to the U.S.
Roger A. Heegard
U.S. Army, Staff Sgt. E-6 served from
1965 to 1969 in Bindlach Germany as a
tank commander. Spent three years on
Czecholvkian border before being sta-
tioned at Fort Lewis, Washington. Heegard
grew up in Cottage Grove, attending Har-
rison Elementary School, Cottage Grove
High School and the University of Oregon.
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