Investigators seek answers to Houston’s death By ANTHONY MCCARTNEY The Associated Press Telling The Tri-County’s Story Since 1869 Large enough to serve you, small enough to know you. We never went to a dance, drank alcohol or smoked. She also said her father was one of those instrumental in setting up Youth For Christ in this area, in addition to his jail ministry. “People cut up their cloths and bring them to him,” Jane said. “I still make them on the looms,” he said. One of his favorite hobbies was weaving rugs in his earlier days. “Every year we cut wood and split it by hand,” he said. He is supposed to be taking it easy, but has been known to split some wood. Now, his heart is working 30 to 40 percent. The day before this past Thanksgiving, he suffered a major heart attack, and was flown via CareFlight to Good Samaritan Hospital from Greenville. “I got some shrapnel after being injured in an explosion at the aid station.” “He is always thinking, ‘How can I make this better?’”ĭunwoody is a member of the Disabled American Veterans and the American Legion. “He has a creative side about him,” Jane said. He said he had also spent five years as a carpenter. We went to Celina, Van Wert, Wapakoneta as well as Richmond and Winchester in Indiana.” We visited 10 to 12 county jails in the surrounding counties. “During that time, for 15 years, I went to jails every week,” he said. He has had the privilege of marrying a few of his grandchildren and pronouncing his granddaughter, Jenny and husband Mike Taylor in marriage.įorty years of his life was spent working for Gideons International. There are now seven grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.ĭunwoody, who had attended the Congregational Christian Church in North Star which has now closed, said he was a minister through the church. The couple had another daughter, Jane, two years later, and yet another daughter, Sue, 17 years later. Upon his return home from his duty overseas, he reunited with his wife and his eldest daughter, Sally, now Peterson, who was born while he was overseas. “As far as you could see there were tents ready to go home,” he said. He said it took them one week to get through France. “We three chaplains bought POWs back in three jeeps to the American lines. “We ended up at the Elbe River, the dividing line between Russia and forces,” he said. He said at the end of the war, his unit went through Normandy, France. “The most casualties came the first day,” he said. He only had a couple of piano lessons, but basically played by ear, according to daughter Jane Good.Īn avid reader, he said he is for the fourth time reading the book D-Day. I played piano and organ and had a suitcase for the organ when we were out and camping.” We held services wherever we could have them….even in hedge rows. “The very good chaplain and I bonded together well. He has been presented a Purple Heart and Good Conduct medal. “I went in on D-Day with the Ohio National Guard Division and was there when the war ended.” “I served with the 83rd Division in Europe,” he said. “That’s what you farmed with back then,” he said.ĭunwoody served in the U.S.
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