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Kerns School

Kerns School Service Flag

The Oregonian, 2 Jun 1918, page 50

At the Memorial day exercises on Wednesday afternoon Kerns School dedicated a service flag in honor of the following 69 young men, former students of the school and now in the service of the United States:

  • William Adams
  • Sam Allen
  • Fred Bennett
  • Walter Boliger
  • Alfred Borquist
  • Frank Brown
  • Paul Campbell
  • Walter Clark
  • Olin Clark
  • John Clemenson
  • Fred Conkle
  • Robert Cracknell
  • Edwin Crouch
  • Charles Delby
  • William Delby
  • Frank Davis
  • Will Davis
  • Harold Doty
  • Nelson English
  • Lloyd Frack
  • Donald Frazier
  • Hull Frazier
  • Otto Fruiht
  • Hugh Glenn
  • Robert Grooms
  • Clarence Gray
  • Rudolph Gray
  • Oren Hall
  • Edmund Hand
  • Everett Hilton
  • Earl Henderson
  • Henry Hendrickson
  • George Hoben
  • Orlan Hollawell
  • Sverr Johanneson
  • Hal Kelly
  • Emil Krueger
  • Henry Kuehle
  • Glen Laidlaw
  • William Leaman
  • Walter Lembke
  • Lyle La Valley
  • Elmer Lloyd
  • Thomas Lovell
  • Fred Lystrup
  • Henry Lystrup
  • Gordon Manary
  • Roland Manary
  • Lloyd Martyn
  • Claud McBreen
  • George McBreen
  • Roy Mundell
  • Erville Nitzchske
  • Frank Paunstone
  • Norman Ralston
  • William Ringler
  • George Ross
  • Will Schoof
  • Vane Seely
  • Don Sloan
  • Forrest Smith
  • Marion Smith
  • William Tierney
  • Rodney Van Name
  • Adolph Wagner
  • Emil Wagner
  • William Weiss
  • Paul Wiggins
  • Lynton Franks

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