Joseph Alfred Hager and Lillian Clara (Ritchie) - Maternal Grandparents
STANDING: Joseph A. "Joe" and Lillian (Ritchie) Hager, Alice Elizabeth (Bunger) and Robert F. Hamilton, Sn.
SEATED: Thomas Columber ["T.C." or "Lum"] Hamilton and Lena Frances (Ritchie), Alice (Bandy) Stith holding Patricia Gail Hamilton, Sam J. Bunger and wife Gertrude (Stith) holding Mary June Hamilton
On Sunday morning, December 7, 1941, the American Army and Navy base in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii was attacked by the Imperial Japanese Navy.
Monday, the next day, "Aunt Louise" joined the Nurses Corp, and later was placed in the South Pacific theatre of operations. She never married. She was an aunt to Wayne Whelen (of Flaherty). |
STANDING: Joseph A. "Joe" and Lillian (Ritchie) Hager, Alice Elizabeth (Bunger) and Robert F. Hamilton, Sn.
SEATED: Thomas Columber ["T.C." or "Lum"] Hamilton and Lena Frances (Ritchie), Alice (Bandy) Stith holding Patricia Gail Hamilton, Sam J. Bunger and wife Gertrude (Stith) holding Mary June Hamilton