January 6, 2012
Looking Back On Oroville and Butte County Heroes
By Stu Shaner (533-8147)
Bill Connelly and I are Co-Chair of the Oroville Veterans Memorial Park Honoring All Of Butte County. Please check out our web site, by webmaster Daryl Autrey, at www.orovilleveteransmemorialpark.org, If you have anything you would like to share with me please call my number is 533-8147.
Oroville Mercury Register
Late 1943
Pvt. Charles C. Ravert Is Serving Abroad
Pvt. Charles C. Ravert, 23, has spent many
months overseas, following his training in this country. He
enlisted Feb. 27, 1943. He was sent first to Ft. Lewis, and
later to Virginia. After several months there he came home on a
furlough and was sent to England. He was graduated from Oroville
high school in 1941. He had a record of having attended school
for nine years without having been tardy or absent. Pvt. Ravert
is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Ed C. Ravert Formerly of Quincy Road,
now of Boardman Ore. He is a grandson of Mrs. Ettie Harrison of
Norton Street.
Oroville Mercury Register February 14, 1948 Lewis Dahlmeier, 61,
Succumbs Lewis William Dahlmeier, 61, of Spencer Avenue, a
resident of Oroville for 38 years, died at Oroville-Curran
hospital late Thursday afternoon. For many years, Mr. Dahlmeier
was with the Oroville Laundry and Dry Cleaners in Oroville. He
enlisted in the army in 1913 and served until 1916 when he was
discharged. He was with the expeditionary forces sent to Mexico.
Mr. Dahlmeier was active in lodge work and a member of Oroville
Lodge 103, Free and Accepted Masons, Oroville Lodge of Elks and
the Eagles. Survivors include his wife Madge and three brothers
C. A. of Oroville; Henry of Minneapolis Minn. and John of
Oppenish, Washington. Funeral Services will be held Monday at 2
p.m. at Hamilton and Riley’s Burial will be in the Veterans plot
at Memorial Park.
Oroville Mercury Register
February 14, 1948
Alaska Highway Film to be Shown
“The Alaska Highway,” a motion picture story of the building of an overland supply road to Alaska, is to be screened at a special showing announced by the Seventh-day-Adventist Church to be given at the Monday Club Saturday at 6:30 p.m. There will be no admission charge and the public is invited. The picture shows U. S. Army Engineers surveying the route, slashing out a pioneer road through trackless forests, a cross treacherous swamps, icy rivers and snow-capped mountains and then the courageous crews of workmen sent in by private contractors to finish the job.
Stu’s Notes: Birth of Oroville Veterans Memorial Park for
All of Butte County Continued. Well after Peter Maki and I met
that last day of Dec.2000, we and Other’s that were recruited,
so to s peek over the next 6 months with lots of phone calls
etc. Preparing for that First meeting, we had to reserve a date
to use the Veterans Hall. I was in the final stage of Building
The Memorial on the Oroville Dam, which I hoped to dedicate, May
6, 2001, which we did. Lynn said why now for the veterans’
memorial. Finish the Dam Memorial 1st. Well I just knew we had
to start soon, it turned out later, grant wise, time was of the
essence. One of our veterans got the Hall lined up for June, 17,
2001, just right for Lynn and I as we did Dedicate the Dam
Memorial May 6th and were heading for Pennsylvania, June 20th,
as I recall. So the ground work was laid, the word was out and
by the Summer of 2001 we had quite a gathering of people some I
named last week the rest were; Ginger Ewalt, Nick Krpan, Mary
Vincent, Stan Rinehart, James Bruce, Jerry Cronin, J. D. Smith,
Dick Ferguson, Bob Leash, Jim Austin, Pat McClanahan, Joan Van
Campen, Harrel Wilson, Randy Hurd, Philip Sciortino, Darby
Miller, Skip Robertson, Pat and Jan Bales, John Loewe, Doug
Krause and Bob Sharkey.
(to be contuned)
Lynn’s father, Walter K. French worked on the Alaska Highway. He
was one of the lucky one’s drawn in the first peace time draft
in the fall of 1940, a year later of course we were in a big war
so he got to travel all over for free. Alaska, England and all
over Europe, all expenses paid. He drove a motorcycle for the
Army of course all through Europe and gave almost five years of
service to his country. The family can be proud of that. Lynn’s
sisters, Dawn and husband John Mathews, and Christy and husband
Benny Schallberger also live here in Oroville.
Happy Birthday to my son Rick, today is
your day.