25 years ago
DECEMBER 29, 1976
A B-29 World War II bomber departed from Marion Thursday morning shortly after sunrise. Its mission was not publicized — a few people knew it was leaving. The plane was being taken by D&D Aero, Inc. to Newton where it will undergo major repair and rejuvenation. D&D hopes to fly the plane from Newton to the company's headquarters in Rantoul, a small town near Ottawa, sometime this spring.
Wayne Colle got his second hole-in-one this week on the Marion County Club golf course. It was the second ace on the new grass greens, the first was by Bob Hoover last summer.
Third Class Petty Officer Wayne R. Hoffman, son of Mr. and Mrs. Roger Hoffman of Marion, has left San Diego, Calif., for an extended deployment in the Western Pacific with the Seventh Fleet. He is a machinery repairman aboard the destroyer tender USS Samuel Gompers.
Nancy J. Groneman, formerly of Lincolnville, received her doctor of education degree last week at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln. She is an assistant professor in secondary education at Emporia Kansas State College.
The engagement of Mary Lou Bowers and Rick Just is announced by their parents, Mr. and Mrs. David Bowers of the Youngtown community and Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Just of Aulne. An August wedding is planned.
Joe Ragole, 1972 graduate of Marion High School, has accepted an engineering position with Sperry Rand Systems in Phoenix, Ariz. Ragole received his BS degree in mechanical engineering from Kansas State University in December. He begins work in early February in the remote piloted vehicles program in the area of systems design.
