LST 1090 Reunion

USS Russell County

LST 1090

Mini Reunion's

2008

Terry Whipple--Cory & Wayne Weber--Linda Whipple

April 17 2008

Statesville, NC

Bill Hagwood, Eldon (AL) Irby & Doug Moore

Wives Sarah Hagwood & Elsie Moore

Bill, Eldon, Doug

Doug, Eldon

Bill, Doug, Eldon

Doug V. Moore

Eldon AL Irby

Sarah, Esie, Doug, Eldon

Doug, Elsie, Eldon

Eldon (Al) Irby who lives in Lubbock, Texas flew up to see Doug V. Moore who lives in Statesville, NC. and is spending the week with him. Doug called me last week to tell me of Al's visit and invited me up to join them for a day. I went yesterday, April 17 which happened to be my 76th birthday and took Sarah with me to visit with Doug's wife while Doug and Al and I talked. It really was a great day. We all talked and looked at the photo album that I took with me that includes all the photos that I have from our navy days and then we went out to eat lunch at a local restaurant. Afterwards we came back to Doug's house and talked for a couple of more hours before I left for home at around 5:30 for my three hour drive back home. We really had a great day. Bill Hagwood

May 9, 2005

North Carolina

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Harvey Ayers & Bill Hagwood Harvey & Nancy, Bill & Sarah

January 2003,

Washington State

Terry Whipple and Grant Barber

September 9, 10, 11, 2002

Washington chapter of the LST Association

Held in Olympia, WA.

On an RVing trip through the Northwest I made contact with Terry Whipple while in Washington State. He told me about the annual Washington LST Association meeting in Olympia. So I headed to a RV park 5 miles south of Olympia. It turned out to be on Terry's way to the meeting. Terry picked me up for two days of the meeting and two days of interesting conversation and took me to the best Hamburger stand in Centralia, WA. I meet lots of very nice people at the meeting and had a great time. The dinner and entertainment were excellent. The highlight of the two days was seeing Jack Keena and Tom Padgett again after almost 50 years.