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Many members of the La Harpe American Legion attended the 2022 Memorial Day Service at the La Harpe City Park last Monday. Four La Harpe Legion members served in WWII or the Korean conflict. Above are brothers in their 90s, Jerald Boyd, (left) and Glen Boyd (right) who attended.
JERALD BOYD, a 1948 LH HS grad, served as Corporal in the U.S. Army, 1951-53, in Fairbanks, Alaska, 1-1/2 years during the Korean Conflict. He married Clara Jean (Lionberger) 68 years ago. They have 2 daughters, Diane (Steve) Painter, Terre Haute, and Susan (Eric) Kuennen, Cedar Rapids, IA.
GLEN W. BOYD a 1941 LH HS grad served in the U.S. NAVY from 1943-1946 during WW II as a Motor Machinist 2 on the USS WEAVER, a Cannon-class destroyer escort in the South Pacific. He was married to Esther (Miller) for 71 years who died in 2018 at age 91. The couple raised two daughters and one son, Lana Boyd of La Harpe, Jan (Max) Burg of Dallas City, and Mike (Janet) Boyd of Burnside.
CARL REEDER, 88, of La Harpe attended the Memorial Day services. He served during the Korean Conflict between 1953-55 and was a hospital corpsman in the U S Navy assisting physicans and dentists at the Naval Receiving Station in Seattle, WA and at the Naval Hospital in Birmington, WA. After discharged, Carl worked for the phone company in various states. Carl is a La Harpe HS 1948 graduate and was married to the late Donna White for 59 years. The couple had three sons: Byron who served in the Navy 2 1/2 years and now teaches computers and math, Mark who served in the Air Force and now retired, and Michael who teaches science at Des Moines Christian School.
DALE W. SHUTWELL, 92, of Oak Lane Nursing & Rehab Center in Stronghurst, a 1944 LH HS grad, served during WWII in the US Navy 1944-46 as a Diesel Mechanic, AGP15/AGP13 in the Panama Canal to South Pacific. He returned from the service and married Eleanor Thompson on August 9, 1946 at the Union Church. They had three children, Linda, Ken, and Ted. Ted survives and lives in La Harpe with his wife Rosann.
Dale's wife Eleanor died in 2019 at Oak Lane at the age of 91. A LH HS and Burlington Junior College grad, she passed a Civil Service test then worked in Washington D.C. at the Pentagon in the Navy Records Dept. These are a few of the many in the area who served our country.