A Happy Birthday that has ‘Legs’
Wednesday, Oct. 21 was the 93rd birthday of Dorman
“Legs” Keith Beckner, Class of 1942, on the 1940 Monongah High Marion County
champions unbeaten football team (4 ties, though).
Keith Beckner children are Rhea Lee Beckner Hillberry of
Littleton, Colorado, a
Fairmont West High and Fairmont State graduate who retired from the Coors
Brewery in Golden, Colorado, and fisherman extraordinaire Roger
Keith Beckner. Keith got the nickname of “Legs” when he played football for
Monongah High.
Keith and Gene McIntire, both veterans of the Korea Conflict,
attend Monongah Baptist Church and have been friends for many years. They made
an Honor Flight together from Clarksburg’s Benedum Airport to Washington, D.C. that
was free to show appreciation for America’s veterans.
Brother Eugene and Ted Lipinski were on that 1940 team with
Keith. The Lipinski siblings were “Big” Jim, Joe, John, Frank, Stephanie,
Henry, Loretta, Eugene, Theodore and Lyndon. They had a farm that was off U.S.
19 on the opposite side of the United Mine Workers Hall and Pepsi Meffe’s
service station.
I met Jim in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio because he taught phys ed and
my son, John Larry Olesky, who today lives in Tallmadge, Ohio, was in the Bode
Elementary class. Jim’s son, Jim, Jr. was deeply involved for years in Boy
Scouts in Cuyahoga Falls.
Jim's late first wife, Loreene, was the cosmetology teacher for my daughter,
LaQuita Olesky Timberlake, today a schoolteacher in Aurora, Ohio.
If your
name is not on this list, email John Olesky at jo4wvu@neo.rr.com with your full name, including maiden name,
your birthday date, your graduation year and your current hometown.
October
2 – Stanley H. Vance, Class of 1964
7 – Sherry McIntire, Class of 1975
8 – Valerie Vandetta Aldridge, Class
of 1973
9 – Mary Frances Miller Myers, Class
of 1951
11 – Felix Colisino, Class of 1947
11 – Jay Holman, Class of 1971
12 – Brenda Manzo, wife of Danny
Manzo, Class of 1957
20 – Leona “Duckles” Davis Schooley,
Class of 1953
21 – Dorman Keith Beckner, Class of
1942
21 – Ken Slovekosky, Gilmer County
High Class of 1976.
26 – Lori Hawkins Ice, Fairmont East
graduate living in Carolina
29 – Robert Boydoh, Class of 1956
31 – Patty Steele McCombs, Fairmont
East graduate who lives in Monongah
November
1 – Tom Dean, Class of 1949
5 – John Olesky, Class of 1950
8 – Diana Pishner Walker
10 – Tony Orsini, Class of 1946
14 – Ann Marie Mascak Davis, Class of
1955
17 – John Todd Moats, North Marion
Class of 1985
20—Hellen Snider Carpenter, Class of 1950
20 – Kathryn Toothman Crim, Class of
1950
22 – Mike Ahouse, Class of 1968
23 -- Antheai Justice Turner, North Marion 1982
25 – Gerald Nelson Hartley, Class of
1955
27 – Roy Foster, Class of 1945
28 – Danny Fullen, Class of 1961
29 – Dave Westfall, Marcia Westfall
Michalski’s son
December
2 – Adam Michna, 1980 North Marion
graduate
2 -- Mareia Wilmouth McDougal,
Class of 1964
4 – Ronald Pearse, Class of 1961
4 – Jay Michalski, 1980 North Marion
graduate
5 – Duane Harbert, Class of 1951
8 – Brenda Urban, Class of 1971
11 – Paulette Colanero O’Connor,
Class of 1966
13 – Otis “Sarge” Shaver, Class of
1948
14 – Bev Morgan Colisino, Class of
1974
16 – Barbara Sweede, Class of 1956
16 – Shelvy Maze Cunningham, Class of
1964
16 – Henry Moore, husband of Beth
Pritchard Moore, Class of 1975
18 – Bill Cameon, Class of 1960
20 – Mike Hess, Class of 1975
22 – Frances Wimer Miller, Class of
1951
23 – Jim Fullen
25 – Chris Shamrock Henning
27 – John Yokay III, son of John
Yokay, Class of 1953
January
6 – Jeanette Barr Baczuk, Class of
1940
13 – Beatrice Salisbury Mills, Class
of 1951
17 – Susan Colaneri Monell, Class of
1949
18 – Arlene Marteney Decker Edgell,
Class of 1951
?? – Marie Bee Zwiegel, Class of 1951
18 – Bertha Pazdric Sullivan, Class
of 1954
18 – Greg Vandetta, Monongah mayor,
husband of Debbie Manzo Vandetta, Class of 1973
19 – Joe Martin, Class of 1957
19 – Joann Thompson, Class of 1962
22 – Jo-Jo DeMary of Monongah, who
lives in Chattanooga, Tennessee and is married to Yvonne King DeMary
24 – Marcia Michalski Westfall, Class
of 1974
24 – Mark “Hooch” Aldridge, Class of
1973
29 – Kitty Ahouse Morrison, Class of
1968
February
1 – Debra Manzo Vandetta, Class of
1973
2 – Sylvia Edwards, Monongah grad
living in Idamay
3 – Debbie Weaver Hurley, Monongah
grad living in Monongah with husband Milton Hurley
3 – Rebecca Urish Anderson, Class of
1971
8 – Tom Fleming, Monongah grad living
in Bridgeport
9 – Bob Nichols, Class of 1964
10 – Bonnie Nicholson Moats, Class of
1960
11—Linda Renay Hess Postlethwait,
Class of 1968
15 – Jerry Koloskie, Class of 1975
17 – Larry “Danny” Eates, Class of
1970
18 – Mark Tarley, North Marion grad
20 – Harold Dean Kniceley, Class of
1960
21 – Eva Huey Jarvis, Class of 1975
24 – Mary Kelly, Monongah & North
Marion
29 – Betty Sikinow Cunningham, Class
of 1954
March
5 – Phil Colanero, Jr., Class of 1963
5 -- Doris Carpenter Rogers, Class of 1971
6 – Karen Fitzwater Pausch, Class of
1961
9 – Richie Basagic, Class of
1975
9 – Brian Evans, Monongah graduate
married to Patty DeMary Evans
11 – Benny C. Morgan, Class of 1948
15 – Donna Colvert Davis, Class of
1961, married to 1958 MHS grad Bill Davis
15 – Clarence William “Bill” Woods,
Class of 1952
22 – David Haines, Class of 1964
25 – Sandy Cook, Class of 1959
25 – Richard Fitzwater, Monongah
graduate
28 – Josephine Popovich Jones, Class
of 1952
April
4 – Charlotte Walker Cahill, Class of
1954
5 – Bernie Fullen, Class of 1963
9 – Paula “P.J.” Hickman, North
Marion 1983
11 – Leo Kubiet, Class of 1942
12 – Linda Sawyer Duckworth, Class of
1966
14 – Lyla Cosner Howell, Class of
1958
16 – Becky Shelosky Carvillano, Class
of 1961
30 – Shirley Knight Ritterhouse,
Class of 1954
May
4 – Freddie Jane Colosino Villers,
Class of 1964
5 – Frank Franze, Class of 1950
6 – Jerry Loss, Class of 1956
12 – Arlene Kitchin, main squeeze of
Joe Martin, Class of 1957
14 – Donna Post Swiger, Class of 1955
14 – Mike Jurasko, Class of 1957
14 – Virginia Belle Littleton Curtis,
Class of 1957
17 – Colette Stanley Melton, Class of
1970
20 – Linda Tomlinson Stevenski, Class
of 1955
21 – June Paxton Rogers, Class of
1948
27 – Ed Graffius, Class of 1971
28 – Terri Orsini Saye, Class of 1972
29 – John Woods, Class of 1957
30 – Dave Westfall, Class of 1948
June
1 – Parma Kay Fetty, Class of 1973
3 – Jim Birdsell, North Marion grad
from Monongah; married to Angela
5 – Ann “Peaches” DeMary
7 – Kenneth Kincaid, Class of 1968
8 – John Koloskie, Jr., Class of 1944
8 – Pat Slovekosky Morris, Class of
1970
13 – C.L. “Roy” Parker II, North
Marion Class of 1982
13 – Rick Morrison, son of Kitty
Ahouse Morrison, Class of 1968
14 – Pamela Morrison Bombardiere, Class
of 1967
14 – Regina Levelle Humphrey, Class
of 1973
14 – Regina McCoy Murphy, Class of
1973
17 – Delmas Gene Hartley, Class of
1979
17 – Dennis Jones, Class of 1954
20 – Shirley Ann Woods Merchant,
Class of 1953
23 – Ramona Fullen Michalski, Class
of 1949
23 – Kathryn Manuel Marshall, Class
of 1960
23 – Ron Manzo, Monongah grad
23 – Frankie Vandetta, North Marion
grad
July
3 – Susan Ahouse Schrader, Class of
1971
4 – Barbara Fleming Marsh, Class of
1947
5 – David Gowers, Class of 1971
5 – Bill Meredith, Class of 1957
7 – Alex Fazio Huff, North Marion
2005 grad
10 – Mary Fleming Toothman, Class of
1960
14 – Ted Nagel, Class of 1954
14 – Bentley Evans, Class of 1978
18 – Larry Zickefoose, Class of 1968
20 – Catherine Reckart Boyce, Class
of 1973
21 – Robin Huffman Satterfield, Class
of 1973
16 – Jean Nagel Viglianco, Class of
1949
19 – Jane Pritchard Moore, Class of
1975
29 – Pete Basagic, Class of 1972
August
1 – Kim DeMary Clowers, Class of 1979
3 – (Agnes) Jean Larry DiLaura, Class
of 1950
5 – Robert Tennant, Class of 1971
6 – Wauneda Evans, Patty DeMary
Evans’ mother-in-law
7 – Dorie Mike Whetsell, Monongah graduate
8 – Sandra Ashcraft, Class of 1964
9 – Paula Kerns Fazio, Class of 1979
12 – Angelo Catania, Class of 1943
16 – Debby Morrison Harden, Class of
1966
17 – Twins Earnest Hayes &
Chester Hayes, both Class of 1965
18 – Jim McDaniel, Class of 1960
18 – John Fazio, Class of 1970
19 – Greg Postlethwait, Class of 1964
19 – Barbra Eller-Hanning, Monongah
grad
20 – Irene Fazio Preolitti, Class of
1966
20 – Connie Warash, Class of 1975
29– Pat Meredith Wills, Class of 1950
30 – Beth Pritchard Brooks, Class of
1978
30 – David Harbert of Idamay,
Farmington grad
September
1 – Claude Domico, Jr., Class of 1959
6 – Dave Domico of Monongah, Fairmont
West grad married to Andrea Justice Domico
7 – Mary Louise Orsini, Class of 1948
(honorary)
7 – Phillis Tarley, North Marion grad
from Idamay living in Fairmont
8 – Fred Moorehead, Class of
1964
8 – Jackie Olesky Straight, Class of
1955
13 – Karen Manzo, Class of 1974
14 – Suzanne Barr Loss, Class of 1948
14 – Jim Shaver, Class of 1954
15 – Bettie Hensley Lowther, Class of
1948
17 – Patti DeMary Evans, Class of
1972
20 – Greg Patrick, Class of 1970
23 – Sally Wood Tarley, Class of 1959
24 – Joe Fazio, Class of 1974
25 – Marylee Hertzog Gwinn, Class of
1948
25 – Jim Davis, Class of 1964
26 – Nathaleen Cameon Oliverio, Class
of 1948
27 -- Bonita Lavencheck Waybright,
Class of 1968
29 – Dietta Harden Goush, Class of
1959
29 – Pamm Yanero Bragg, Class of 1969
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