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Evelyn Hall Baumwart

Sister of Eugene Hall.

Army

World War II 1944-1946.

Master Sgt. Eugene Hall

Brother of Evelyn Hall Baumwart.

Korea — Vietnam 1949-1975

Freddie Hobson

USAF 10/23/1961 - 10/22/1965

Served in Italy for 15 months and Texas for 33 months.

Top secret security clearance.

Honorably discharged as E-4 Sergeant.

Grover Benjamin Bannister 
Private, U.S. Army Coastal Artillery Corps, Company 1 

Born Oct. 8, 1888
Died Oct. 6, 1918

Grover Benjamin Bannister was the son of Judge Charles A. Bannister and Josephine Wilma (Hanks) Bannister.

He was born Oct. 8, 1888, in Pratt County, Kan., and he and his family moved to Oklahoma in 1889, first settling on a farm east of El Reno. In 1895, the family built a new home at 200 N. Barker Avenue in El Reno, where they lived for decades thereafter.

Garland Parker

Army Air Corp 1945-46, served in Germany.

► Nov. 11, 1918, was largely considered the end of the “war to end all wars,” even though the Treaty of Versailles, which officially ended World War I, was signed roughly seven months later on June 28, 1919.

► While Veterans Day is an American holiday, Canada, Great Britain, Australia and France also honor the veterans of World War I and World War II on or near Nov. 11. Canada celebrates Remembrance Day, while Britain observes Remembrance Sunday each year on the second Sunday of November.

By Jesse Hardy
(Brian Rukes’ AP English 3 class)

Michael James Booher went to Cherokee High School and graduated in 1991.

William Roberts “Billy” Laird

1940 graduate of El Reno High School.

Born March 16, 1921
Died Feb. 7, 1943

Laird enlisted in the U.S. Navy on May 18, 1942, just about six months after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.

SM3c Laird was one of two signalmen assigned to the troop transport ship the Henry R. Mallory.