When Don Pitman, Class of 1962, married wife Joan, he added a Mannington mob to his Monongah mob.

Proof: 80 showed up for the Pethtel Reunion in Mannington Park this month.

It’s not that there were no Pethtels at Monongah High, just that they were vastly out-numbered in Marion County by the Mannington Pethtels.

At Monongah High after Don’s graduation were:

Charles Pethtel, Class of 1966.

Bobby Pethtel, Class of 1968.

Prudence Jeanette Pethtel, Class of 1968.

Diane Dickens Pethtel, Class of 1972.

The children of the late Olive Jane Kniceley Hulderman of Idamay include Don, who lives in White Hall with Joan;  Sylvia Ann Hulderman Edwards, Class of 1967, married to Ed, who live in Idamay (Sylvia previously was married to Don Fitzwater, Class of 1966); Raymond "Bugs" Hulderman, Class of 1966, married to Lorraine Snider Hulderman, Class of 1966, who live on Swisher Hill; and Thomas Hulderman, Class of 1969, who lives with Jane Hulderman.