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Betty Ilene Poffenberger Swain 1928 - 2018

Betty Ilene Poffenberger Swain 1928 – 2018

Margaret Poffenberger Wageley

Bob Swain, 87th Infantry Division, 345 Regiment of the U.S. Army

Bob Swain, 87th Infantry Division, 345 Regiment of the U.S. Army

Bob Swain as a boy

Private Austin G. Michael

Private Austin G. Michael

Corporal John F. Clopper

Corporal John F. Clopper

Glenn DeShazo

Gantz Sisters - Miriam, Janice and Bernice

Gantz Sisters – Miriam, Janice and Bernice

Gantz Sisters

Carrie Gantz and daughter Janice

Carrie Gantz and daughter Janice

Ross Martin Gantz and Carrie Estelle (Cline) Gantz

Ross Martin Gantz and Carrie Estelle (Cline) Gantz

Bob and Betty Swain

Bob and Betty Swain

Betty Swain with Bob's Grandmother Helen Jones of Jones Restaurant

Betty Swain

With Bob Swain’s Grandmother, Helen Jones, of Jones Restaurant

Haynes Wedding

Gantz Haynes wedding

Jim Bowers, WWII

Jim Bowers, WWII

Memorial Monument "Homecoming Day", July 4, 1919, Boonsboro

Memorial Monument “Homecoming Day”, July 4, 1919, Boonsboro

Louise, Billy, Madge Miller 1919

Louise, Billy, Madge Miller 1919

Grace Haller, June 1, 1919

Grace Haller, June 1, 1919

Billy Miller - April 20, 1919, 2 yrs old

Billy Miller – April 20, 1919, 2 yrs old

Naomi Flook, age 15, April 1919

Naomi Flook, age 15, April 1919

Easter 1919

Easter 1919

Woman and baby in front of Catholic Church

Woman and baby in front of Catholic Church

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Doug Bast as a boy

Doug Bast as a boy in white shorts

Doug in front of horse drawn hearse during parade in Boonsboro. He is dressed up like a mortician. Furniture store in the background.

Doug Bast in historical attire of a mortician

John Bast Sr on right

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Melinda Lucretia Garns Bast - Doug Bast's mother

Doug’s Mother, Melinda Lucretia Garns Bast

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Doug Bast and John Bast Jr.

Doug Bast and John Bast Jr.

Doug Bast as a child at Christmas

Doug Bast as a child at Christmas

Doug Bast riding a bike

Doug Bast riding a bike

Doug Bast as a child petting a cat

Doug Bast as a child

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Doug Bast and friend, dressed in military costume

Doug Bast and friend, dressed in military costume

Doug Bast in front of the furniture and undertaking workshop where his family handmade furniture and coffins

Doug Bast in his museum

Doug Bast riding a bike

Doug Bast riding a bike

Bikles in front of funeral home

Marie Bikle (wife of Mark) Nancy and Chris (Josef) Bikle, man in brown coat is unidentified, John Bast Sr, John Bast Jr, Naomi “Nonie” Snyder Bast and Tom Bikle on far right.

Doug and his mother, Lecretia, on horseback. The alley across the street was a major route through to the park and the Basts had a large barn, chicken house.

Doug Bast and mother Lucretia on horseback

Doug Bast's cousin Barbara Bast Miller

Doug Bast’s cousin Barbara Bast Miller

Horse-drawn buggy and family - North Main Street approximately where light is at Rt 66. Doug driving and various family members on board including his mother who is seated next to him.

Doug Bast driving horse-drawn buggy with family on N. Main St.

Gerald Bast

Gerald Bast and the front of the Bast Funeral and Furniture store. This bldg was torn down and no longer there. It would have been 109 N. Main and a brick building put there, which is now the present day furniture store.

Doug being held by his father, Gerald

Doug and Gerald Bast

Lecretia Gail (Garns) Bast, Doug's mother

Lecretia Gail (Garns) Bast

Doug Bast’s mother

Gerald, Doug and Lecretia (Garns) Bast

Gerald, Doug and Lecretia (Garns) Bast

Doug Bast at Christmas looking up at the tree

Doug Bast at Christmas

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Hubert and Sue Bast (Doug Bast's uncle and grandmother)

Hubert and Sue Bast (Doug Bast’s uncle and grandmother),

John Bast Jr on far right

1925 – help us identify

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August 1919

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Dixie, Gerald and Louise

July 4, 1919

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July 4, 1918

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Gwendolyn Bast, age 14

Louise and Madeleine (Bast family?)

July 4, 1919

Gwendolyn Bast, Jerry (?), Mrs. Beauchamp

Louise (?)- July 4, 1919

Louise (?)- July 4, 1919

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Elizabeth Jones

Elizabeth Jones

Louise and Larence Henneberger, July 1919

Louise and Larence Henneberger, July 1919

Margaret Jones, June 25, 1919

Bill’ Bast Grave October, 17, 1918

Billy Bast, age 21, Died Oct 10, 1918

Margaret Itnyre, Gwendolyn Bast

April 13, 1919 at ages 16-14

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Gwendolyn Bast

Age 14, Feb 3, 1919

February 3, 1919 (Doug Bast's mother)

Malinda Lecretia Gail (Garns) Bast, 1919

Charlie and Paul Ridenour

Miles Staley

Billy Miller, age 4 months

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Billy Miller and Aunt Tillie

Gwendolyn Bast, age 14

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Mrs. Staley and Miles

Billy Miller

“Billy” July 4, 1918

Geraldine Itnyer (girl) Claude Itnyer Margret Itnyer James Itnyer

(L-R) Geraldine Itnyer, Claude Itnyer, Margret Itnyer, James Itnyer

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Possible name “Naoma”

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