War Rationing -- When The Greatest Generation Went "All In"

Edna Lillian [Tew] Tarr (1885 -1969) was the older sister of my paternal grandfather.  The above Ration Book from World War II is in the possession of her grandson, my cousin Bruce.  He allowed me to scan the book and the stamps it contained.

Since this summer is the 100th anniversary of the start of World War I, I did a little research and was surprised to learn that there was no rationing to speak of in the U.S. during WW I.  During World War I, food rationing was not explicitly imposed in the United States; instead the U.S. Food Administration relied on a public relations "propaganda" campaign and popular slogans to persuade people to self-ration and conserve food resources.  Catchy slogans such as "Meatless Mondays," "Food Will Win The War," and "Wheatless Wednesdays" did in fact help reduce national food consumption by 15%!  

World War II was different.

As early as the summer of 1941, the UK appealed to the United States to conserve food so that more food resources could be contributed to those fighting Germany in Europe.  As a result, on August 28, 1941 a Presidential Executive Order was issued to establish the Office of Price Administration (OPA) within the Office for Emergency Management.  OPA had broad powers that included the ability to place ceilings on the price for all products except agricultural commodities.  On many other items they had the power to ration the supplies available for consumer sales: tires, cars, shoes, gasoline, nylon, and many other products.  At one point all but about 10% of retail food prices were frozen by OPA. 

The first item to be rationed by OPA was tires.  In December 1941 OPA ordered the cessation of tire sales while it established volunteer tire ration boards around the country.  In January 1942 a temporary end of all civilian auto sales was implemented and dealers suddenly had 500,000 unsold vehicles sitting on their lots -- and by early February 1942 the production of civilian automobile models had ceased. Then, by June 1942 companies no longer produced metal office furniture, refrigerators, washing machines, vacuum cleaners, sewing machines, radios and other products in order to save and divert materials for war production efforts.

Civilian ration books were first issued in May 1942 with the release of War Ration Book Number One, also known as the "Sugar Book." It was distributed through a network of over 100,000 volunteers that included teachers and PTA groups around the country. All sales of sugar were ended on April 27, 1942 and resumed on May 5th after the ration books were out to limit sugar purchases to a half pound per person per week (50% of the previous normal consumption by Americans). Coffee was rationed beginning in late November 1942 and by the end of the year ration coupons had to be used for citizens to buy other items.  Within a year such items as butter, cheese, fuel oil, meat, canned milk, coal, jams, lard, margarine, typewriters, gasoline, bicycles, and shoes were rationed.

Rationing did not end until 1946.

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Scan of original War Ration Book No. 3 issued to Edna L. Tarr courtesy of her grandson, Bruce Marquardt.

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Copyright 2014, John D. Tew

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Military Monday (Veterans Day, November 11, 2013) -- WWI Military Honor Roll, Wallingford, Connecticut

Wallingford, Connecticut Town Hall

Among the Honor Roll memorials located on the grounds of the Wallingford, Connecticut Town Hall is one "Dedicated in Honor and in Memory of Those Men and Women of Wallingford Who Served in the World War 1917 - 1918."  As we are on the eve of the 100th anniversary of the start of the so-called "war to end war," which began on July 28, 1914, it is appropriate that on this Veterans Day 2013 photographs of the full memorial and panel shots of the names of those Wallingford, Connecticut residents honored for their WWI service are featured in today's post.

The wording on this particular memorial is important to note because it points to the distinction between Memorial Day and Veterans Day here in the U.S.  While Memorial Day is a day of remembrance for the men and women who died while serving, Veterans Day celebrates (as this memorial states) those who served.

In the British Commonwealth countries, November 11th is known as Poppy Day, Armistice Day, or Remembrance Day to remember the members of their service branches who died in the line of duty.  It is celebrated on November 11th to recall the cessation of the hostilities of World War I "at the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month."  [That war formally ended with the signing of the Treaty of Versailles on June 28, 1919.  Over 9 million servicemen from all sides were killed during WWI making it the fifth or sixth deadliest conflict in world history!] 

Originally, November 11th was celebrated as "Armistice Day" in the United States too when President Woodrow Wilson proclaimed November 11, 1919 as a holiday so that "the reflections of Armistice Day will be filled with solemn pride in the heroism of those who died in the country's service . . . "  In 1938 Congress passed legislation making November 11th a legal holiday each year "to be dedicated to the cause of world peace and to be thereafter celebrated and known as 'Armistice Day'."  Then, in 1945, a veteran of World War II (Raymond Weeks from Alabama) decided Armistice Day should be broadened to remember and celebrate not only those who died in World War I, but it should celebrate and remember all veterans who served in the armed services of the United Sates.  Dwight Eisenhower supported the idea of the expansion of Armistice Day and by act of Congress in 1954 "Veterans" replaced "Armistice" in the name of our November 11th holiday.  It has been known as Veterans Day ever since and its intent is to celebrate and remember all veterans and not just hose who died in World War I or other wars. 

World War I Honor Roll Memorial (Wallingford, Connecticut -- November 2013)

The following is an alphabetical list of about 560 men and women celebrated and remembered on the Wallingford, Connecticut World War I Honor Roll memorial. Every one of them is gone now, but they and their service are not forgotten!

Close-up photographs of the name panels on the memorial follow the list below, but be aware that the list is not entirely alphabetical as I have caught at least one error -- Lobb, Kenneth D. is out of order as he follows Myers, William H. on the name panels. Also, hard as it is to believe, there apparently are no veterans of WWI from Wallingford with surnames beginning with the letter "N."  

[As the photographs of the name panels clearly show, some of the names are preceded by a star.  The stars before a name indicate that the person named "died in service."  Those who locate a name of an ancestor or relative on the following list, should also consult the name panel photographs to see if the ancestor's or relative's name is preceded by a star and therefore he or she "died in service."]

Abbott, George C.                    Ahearn, Eugene J.                    Altschuler, Maurice

Ames, Joseph C.                       Anderson, Oscar                      Anthony, Henry W.

Anthony, Robert                       Apamoutec, John J.                 Artioli, Enrico

Atkinson, Percy                        Backes, Clifford B.                  Backes, Edward B.

Backes, Raymond                    Backes, Roger O.                     Bailey, John W.

Bakanas, Karl                           Balough, Alex                          Bandero, Louis

Bannell, Walter S.                    Barry, Edward S.                      Bartek, John S.

Beaudoin, William L.               Beaudoin, Zoel                         Beaumont, George B.

Beck, Jacob C.                         Becroft, Silas W.                       Beers, Philo E.

Bender, Bennie                        Benziger, Frederick C.              Berdofsky, Louis J.

Bernardo, Claudio                    Bertini, Ralph E.                       Bertini, William DEF.

Bevans, Joseph J.                     Beverly, Theodore S.                Blagbrough, Harry C.

Blanchard, Albert R.                Blanchard, Ralph H.                 Blinn, William L.

Bolton, Raymond W.               Bordeleau, William G.              Borghi, Ernest C.

Bossidy, Francis W.                 Bossidy, James E.                     Bossidy, Joseph T.

Bremer, Ernest                         Brennan, John F.                       Brennan, William J.

Bridgett, Frank E.                    Bridgetts, James H.                    Briggs, Carlton D.

Briggs, Morton D.                   Bronsord, William J.                  Brooks, Edward C. 

Brooks, Robert W.                   Brow, Arthur J.                         Brow, Robert R. 

Brown, Ray                             Bruton, George                          Bruton, Leo

Bryson, Robert                        Buckley, William                       Bullis, Carlton G.

Bullis, Clifford N.                    Bullus, George R.                      Burghoff, Harrold R.

Burke, Bryant L.                      Burns, James P.                         Burns, William T.

Butler, Edmund V.                  Butler, William V.                      Caples, Jeremiah

Carey, Jesse G.                        Carmen, Edward F.                   Carroll, Francis W.

Carroll, John F.                        Carroll, William J.                     Carty, James F.

Case, Harold L.                        Casey, Edward J.                      Casey, Frank W.

Cassin, Matthew J.                   Cavalieri, Anthony R.               Cavalieri, John                           Ceregioli, Peter                         Chapel, George                        Chase, Harry H.                         Chordas, Burton                       Clack, Albert E.                        Clark, Arthur H.

Clark, Louis N.                         Clarke, Felix W.                       Clement, Henry J.

Coffey, John G.                        Coffey, Richard J.                     Comerford, John E.

Comerford, Patrick J.                Condon, Joseph H.                   Condon, Robert W.

Cook, Frank D.                         Cook, George E.                       Cooper, James W.

Corcoran, Frank                        Cottrill, John R. Jr.                    Coughlin, Edward J.

Cowles, Philip B.                      Craig, G. Ludlow                      Crossley, William

Curran, Timothy E.                   Curran, William F.                    Cushman, Raymond J.

Daly, Edward T.                       Daly, George J.                         Daly, John E.

Davis, John T.                          Davis, Ralph L.                         Deghello, Alexander S.

Degnan, Joseph F.                    Delaney, Irving J.                      Delaney, Raymond E.

Delehanty, Helen                      Delehanty, Robert T.                 Della Vecchia, Michele

Del Rosso, Leo F.                     Del Rosso, Margaret V.            Del Rosso, Raymond L.

Dembizak, Charles                    Dembizak, John K.                   Dembroski, Teddy

Deming, Harry C.                      Des Jardins, Louis A.               Dineen, Gerald

Docker, William                         Doehr, William F.                    Dondero, Frank

Dontigny, George                      Dorau, Conrad O.                     Doty, Helen

Dougan, Clarence                      Dougan, John M.                      Down, Helen

Downey, George J.                    Downey, John E.                      Doyle, Frank P.

Driver, Wiliiam H.                     Drum, Francis P.                       Drum, Veronica

DuBois, Dennis O.                    DuBois, George A.                   DuBois, William D.

Dunn, Walter                              Dwyer, Michael W.                  Elovetsky, Stanley

Eriksen, Arthur                           Eylward, James E.                    Fassio, Bartolomio

Fassio, Mario                              Feinblum, Nathan                     Ferriere, Edward D.

Fields, Charles L.                       Filippo, Louis J.                        Filippo, Roxy

Fitzgerald, Edmund P.                Flechsig, Edwin A.                  Fleming, Joseph P.

Ford, Sidney                               Ford, William E.                      Francis, Edward B.

Francis, William H.                     Fredericks, David H.               Friderich, Roland C.

Fritz, Frank                                 Fritz, Harry F.                          Furniss, Clarence V.

Gallagher, Joseph F.                   Gallagher, Thomas P.               Gammons, Charles, W.

Gannon, John J.                          Gardner, Edgar E.                     Gardner, George A.

Gargaly, Frank A.                       Gargaly, Stephen J.                  Gariepy, Clifford J.

Gaudette, William F.                   Gawaski, Joseph B.                 Gentile, Vincent

Gibbs, William H.                       Gillooly, Thomas J.                  Gingras, Richard H.

Goff, Clarence H.                        Goldstein, Abe                         Granucci, Henry N.

Graser, Frank K.                          Grasser, Raymond F.               Griffin, James D.

Griffith, John                                Griswold, Harold M.               Gross, Henry J.

Gross, John A.                             Guilbeault, Gilbert                    Hackbarth, Robert R.

Hackbarth, Rudolph                     Hadrick, Joseph                       Hajdu, Albert

Hall, Randolph                             Hall, Theodore P.                     Hamill, Leroy F.

Hammerly, Herman J.                  Harrington, Raymond T.          Harrington, Timothy J.

Hartlein, George H.                      Hartman, Carl W.                     Hartman, Frank

Hassett, Charles                            Hassett, Ethel W.                      Hassett, George H.

Hayden, Frank L.                         Hayden, John E.                       Hayden, Raymond F.

Heath, Walter R.                           Heaton, William C.                  Heilman, Norman

Hemenway, Courtenay                 Hems, Robert P.                       Hennessy, John P.

Hennessey, Dennis J.                    Hennessey, Norinne J.             Hennessey, Robert

Herlach, Mathias A.                      Herr, Earl H.                            Heslin, Charles T.

Heslin, James F.                            Hill, George E.                         Hillbom, Erik A.

Hillbom, Ralph                              Hillbom, Waldo S.                   Hinckley, Clayton

Hinckley, Stanley R.                      Hiob, Emil R.                          Hodgkinson, Harold D.

Holroyd, William C.                      Hopkins, Charles                     Hopkins, Russell N.

Hotchkiss, Charles                         Houlihan, Robert A.                Houson, Maxwell M.

Howe, Ernest                                 Howe, George M.                    Howe, William L.

Hubbell, Harry R.                          Hunt, Stanley D.                      Ives, Clifford G.

Ives, Harold, R.                              Jacek, Martin                           James, Albert S.

Jeralds, Chester W.                         Jeralds, Louis B.                      Jionette, Harry

Johnson, Wilbur H.                        Judd, Howard S.                      Kane, Charles H.

Kane, Charles M.                           Kane, John W.                         Karpie, John

Keeler, Harold                               Kelly, Edward W.                    Kelly, Frederick B.

Kelly, James C.                              Kelly, John J.                           Kelly, John W.

Kelly, Robert P.                             Kelly, Thomas F.                      Kennedy, James G.

Kennedy, Michael F.                     Kenney, Michael J.                   Kenney, Peter

Kepes, Elizabeth B.                       Kershaw, Frank                        Kershaw, William H.

Killen, Albert E.                            Kirkby, Ernest                          Kiviatowski, Alexander

Knopf, William H.                         Knowlton, Norman B.             Knox, John B.

Konopka, Stanley                          Kowalski, Stephen S.               Kowalski, William J.F.

Krajewski, Benjamin                     Krajewski, William P.              Krupp, Harry A.

Kuczmarski, Joseph                       Kumnick, Frank A.                  La Course, Omar

La Croix, Arthur                            Lacy, James E.                         Laden, James J.

Lahaika, Iafrem                              Lane, Harold B.                       Lanquette, Daniel W.

Latham, Thomas J.                         Lathrop, Stanley P.                  Latourunes, Ambrose

Law, William H.                            Lengyel, Andrew                     Leonard, John A.

Leveille, Wilbrod J.                       Liedke, Walter W.                    Lindauer, Bernard J.

Logan, Robert J.                            Loiko, Vincent                         Loomis, Fred B.

Loughlin, Edward J.                      Loughlin, William P.                Lounsbury, Charles

Lucas, Orville, W.                         Lufbery, Raoul                         Lufbery, Rene N.

Lukazevich, Walter                       Maddocks, Harold J.                 Magatte, Joseph

Magee, George R.                         Malchiodi, Louis                       Malmquist, Almar C.

Malmquist, Eric C.                        Malmquist, Harold C.                Malmquist, Nils C.

Malmquist, Olof C.                        Manfreda, Maelis                      Mansfield, A. Irving

Mansfield, Woodford S.                Marc Aurele, Donald                 Marcewski, Roman

Marckoon, Paul P.                         Margolin, Benjamin                  Maxted, Thomas A.

May, John E.                                 McCune, Clarence C.                McDonald, Norval H.

McElrath, Leland F.                      McErlean, Laurance                  McGahie, Alton H.

McGahie, Douglas S.                    McGarra, Edward G.                McGarry, Edward H.

McGaughey, James D.                  McKenzie, Alexander M.         McKeon, James M.

McKerness, William J.                  McKnight, Arthur                     McKnight, Orren B.

McLaughlin, Francis J.                 McLaughlin, Thomas J.             McNulty, Patrick J.

Mellor, George W.                        Merchant, John J.                      Mezzel, Joseph

Michalke, Albert H.                      Milcke, Alan W.                        Milici, Salvatore

Mitchell, George C.                      Molinari, Guiseppe                    Moran, John J.

Morgan, Oscar                              Moulton, Guy E.                       Mounsey, William

Munson, Craig D.                         Murphy, James J.                      Murphy, John J.

Murphy, Thomas J.                       Murray, James                          Myers, Harold T.

Myers, Ray C.                               Myers, William H.                    Lobb, Kenneth D.

O'Brien, Frederick C.                    O'Brien, Robert E.                    O'Brien, William B.

O'Callaghan, John M.                   O'Connell, Benedict M.             O'Connell, Helen

O'Connell, Mark E.                       O'Dea, James                             Ohr, Andrew L.

Ollayos, Frank W.                         O.Neill, Maurice F.                   Paden, Thomas J.

Pagnam, Robert B.                        Pagnam, Thomas J.                   Parker, Sherman C.

Partridge, James P.                        Paskiewicz, Alexander              Passerino, John B.

Pattee, Katherine C.                      Patterson, James P.                    Patzkoska, Edward J.

Payden, Charles F.                        Payden, John F.                        Pender, David E.

Perry, Maurice R.                          Peterson, Reuben E.                 Phelan, Celestin G.

Phelan, Paul A.                             Philippi, John R.                       Phoenix, William J.

Pinsker, Joseph                             Poggio, Secondo                       Porter, Leslie A.

Porto, Francis                                Powers, John J.                         Powers, Maurice

Powers, Ralph H.                          Powers, William E.                   Powers, William J.

Prageman, Irving H.                      Pratt, William A.                       Prizzi, Alphonse

Quiggley, Francis H.                     Quinlan, John P.                       Quinlivan,  Thomas F.

Quinn, Edward J.                          Quinn, Harry T.                        Quinn, James J.

Quinn, William P.                          Reed, Albert                             Reed, Kenneth T.

Reilly, George                               Reilly, James C.                        Reilly, William T. 

Rice, Augustus A.                         Riley, Edward                           Riley, John J.

Riley, John Joseph                        Riotte, Harry C.                         Riotte, Joseph A.

Riotte, William P.                          Roberge, Romeo J.                    Robinson, John T.

Roche, Leo H.                               Roche, Robert E.                       Rogan, Charles V.

Rogan, John J.                               Rogan, William F.                     Rogers, Frank D.

Rogers, William J.                         Rohowsky, Albert                     Rosene, Hilmer

Roslund, Harry O.                         Rovegno, Frank P.                    Rowdie, Carime T.

Rushworth, Edwin                        Rushworth, William                  Russell, Donald G.

Russell, Donato                             Satton, John J.                           Scheffer, Carl W.

Schenker, Andrew                        Schmitter, Ernest                       Schultz, Albert J.

Schultz, August A.                       Schultz, Joseph P.                      Scott, Earl W.

Seichter, Adolph                           Self, Bert A.                              Semenza, Bernard

Semrau, Albert H.                         Shaw, John T.                           Shaw, Stanley

Sheehan, Albert T.                        Sheehan, Mark T.                      Sheehy, Henry P.

Sheehy, John J.                             Shipke, John                              Simon, Charles W.

Simone, Joseph A.                        Sinon, Thomas P.                      Sizer, S. Oliver

Skovinski, Paul P.                         Small, Harold A.                       Smith, Alfred

Smith, Charles E.                          Smith, Charles H.                      Smith, Clarence R.

Smith, Floyd                                 Smith, Howard L.                      Smith, Martin H.

Smith, Wilbur W.                         Smith, William                            Spolite, Dominick F.

St. Arnauld, William J.                 St. Cartier, Lucien F.                  Stearns, C. Edmund

Stearns, Harold T.                        Steele, George                            Steiniger, Joseph M.

Stevens, Maltby                           Stimpson, Charles                       Stimpson, Robert W.

Stone, Thomas D.                        Stone, William J.                         Stuart, Roy F.

Sullivan, Francis P.                      Sullivan, James F.                       Sutton, James J.

Szad, Carl C.                                Szad, Edward H.                        Talbot, Milton A.

Tassmer, Peter P.                         Taylor, Edmund P.                      Taylor, John H.

Terrell, Charles W.                      Terrell, Willard F.                        Tierney, Charles A.

Tierney, Patrick H.                      Torrey, Arthur F.                         Toth, John

Totz, Robert                                 Townsend, Bernard W.              Townsend, William W.

Trabold, Edward R.                     Turner, Fred I.                             Tuttle, Harry W.

Twing, Raymond                         Twiss, George R.                        Uniacke, Charles L.

Uniacke, Ralph R.                       Valenti, Alfred                             Vollhardt, Edwin C.

Vollhardt, Philip H.                      Wahl, Edward                             Wallace, Floyd

Wallace, Truman A.                     Ward, William W.                        Warren, William S.

Way, Chauncey O.                       Wendelken, Frederick                  Werner, Frederick

Werner, Gustave F.                       Werpechowski, Stanley               Wheelock, Richsrd L.

Whitehouse, Wilson H.                 Whiton, Edward L.                      Wilcox, Harry W.

Wilkes, Robert E.                          Wilkins, Harold S.                       Williams, Arnold

Williams, Frank B.                         Williams, Horace P.                    Williams, Russell F.

Wooding, Kenneth E.                    Wooding, Raymond F.                Wrinn, Charles M.

Wrinn, Edward C.                          Wrinn, Frank T.                           Wrinn, James E.

Wrynn, William F.                         Wustrack, Edward B.                   Wustrack, Frederick

Zagata, John                                   Zimmer, John

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Image of the Veterans Day poster for 2013 is in the public domain as a work prepared by an officer or employee of the United States as part of that person's official duties. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Veterans_Day_2013_Poster.jpg

All Memorial photographs by, and courtesy of, Bruce O. Marquardt.

Photograph of Wallingford Town Hall by the author.

Honor Roll name transcription by the author.

To learn more about World War I, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_I .  To learn more about the history of Armistice Day and Veterans Day in the United States, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veterans_Day and the links there to Armistice Day and Remembrance Day in other countries.

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Copyright 2013, John D. Tew

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Military Honor Roll Project (November 10, 2013)

Town Hall in Wallingford, Connecticut where Honor Roll memorials are located to Wallingford residents who served in the Civil War, World War I, World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War

Samaritan Sunday is on hiatus this week in favor of posting for Heather Wilkinson Rojo's Military Honor Roll Project.  Heather's project is "an effort to transcribe and photograph military honor rolls" erected for the veterans of America's wars.  As Heather has explained, transcribing the names on the memorial honor rolls makes the names of the soldiers and sailors available to search engines and thus can aid descendants and family members in finding them via the internet.

A couple of years ago my cousin, Bruce Marquardt, took me on a mystery trip to downtown Wallingford, Connecticut to the former Lyman Hall school (now the Wallingford Town Hall).  My father lived for a time in Wallingford with his aunt (Bruce's grandmother) during a time that my father's mother was ill and his father needed assistance taking care of three children.  My father took some classes at Lyman Hall and I thought my cousin wanted to show me the former school, which I had never seen.  He did explain that the current Town Hall is housed in the former Lyman Hall school, but the real purpose of the trip was to show me the World War II Honor Roll dedicated to those residents of Wallingford that served during WWII.  Bruce pointed out to me for the first time that my father's name was included on the Honor Roll, since he served in the Merchant Marine transporting war materiel to the various theaters of war during WWII.  I took photographs of the WWII Honor Roll memorial from a distance and a close up of the section that showed my father's name.

I later learned of Heather Rojo's Military Honor Roll project well after I visited the Wallingford Honor Roll with my cousin and did not have photographs that showed the names on the memorial so that they could be read.  I contacted my cousin and asked if he would be so kind as to take photos of the memorial for me to transcribe the names and post them here on The Prism and as part of Heather's worthy project.  Bruce said he would be happy to do so and yesterday photographs arrived of all the war memorial honor rolls located on the grounds of the Town Hall in Wallingford.  Bruce provided close-up photographs of the Honor Roll memorials in Wallingford to those who served in the Civil War, World War I, World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War.  THANK YOU BRUCE!!

Tonight I start the posting of Bruce's photographs and my transcription of the names shown on the Honor Rolls beginning with the Civil War Honor Roll.

The following men are listed as "Fallen Men Of The Civil War From Wallingford."  The names are transcribed here to assist with search engine capture.  The units in which each named honoree served can be obtained from the photographs of the Honor Roll memorial immediately above.

COL. Arthur H. Dutton                   SGT. Oliver S. Munson

CPL. George N. Bailey                   CPL John H. Boughton

CPL. Oscar Crusias                         CPL. Delevan W. Ives

CPL. Austin Phelps                         PVT. Patrick Condon

PVT. George V. Dagle                   PVT. Edward B. Dolph

PVT. Bernard Dougherty                PVT. Demetrius S. Dowd

PVT. Patrick Dunn                         PVT. Edward Early

PVT. Edward Hazard                     PVT. William Maschmeyer

PVT. Frederick Mayer                    PVT. Patrick Lynch

PVT. Thomas Lynch                      PVT. Harry L. Parsons

PVT. Samuel Richards                   PVT. Jonathan Swift

PVT. Edward Westerwood            Musician William H. Moore

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Memorial photographs by, and courtesy of, Bruce O. Marquardt.

Photograph of Wallingford Town Hall by the author.

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Copyright 2013, John D. Tew

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Immortality -- Mildred Louise (Tarr) Marquardt

"Immortality Lies in Being Remembered by Family and Friends." -- John D. Tew  

Mildre Louise Tarr

Mildred with her mother Edna (Tew) Tarr

Mildred Tarr

Mildred (left) with her mother Edna

Mildred L. (Tarr) Marquardt -- circa 1960

Mildred Louise Tarr is my 1st cousin 1x removed.  She was the daughter of my Grand Aunt, Edna Lillian (Tew) Tarr and her husband, Edward Clifford Tarr.  Mildred was born in N. Attleboro, Massachusetts on March 19, 1911 -- One Hundred Two (102) years ago today!  She grew up in Wallingford, Connecticut and she married Randall Oddy Marquardt there on June 11, 1938.  Mildred died in Wallingford at age 93 on June 9, 2004.  Mildred had one son, four grandchildren and now several great grandchildren.

Tonight we raise a glass in celebration and memory of Mildred!

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Photographs in the collection of the author courtesy of Mildred's son, Bruce, my 2nd cousin.
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Copyright 2013, John D. Tew

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