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Show I I V lav-"' &S.i-V': ' Uq .' s 1 it 't I . ;' i! mtlKt ; - J I - CALVIN UCHTENW ALTER Js Tai Calvin J. Lichtenwalter, 123 South 200 West in Farmington IM's is an active man who moved idore 1,ere about three years ag0- 3 WOUNDED in Bougainville Uipme; during world war II. he lost ISC n-- ' legs when he cleaned UP '5;. an enemy nest, alone, while " "": serving with the famous Third Division of the U.S. n Marines. J i He joined the Marines in J It Chicago, 111. when 18 years of loc.:, age and jn 1942 received the Purple Heart and Presiden-tial Presiden-tial Unit Citation for heroism in serving his country. W FOLLOWING hospitaliza-dsi hospitaliza-dsi M non at Mare Island. Calif., he j loured the United States, making talks in war plants, ship yards, steel mills and . I other industrial plants and -"vhospitals, encouraging veterans as well as civilians, jeven with his disability. He met an attractive Navy RAM CorP WAVE while recuperat- UIHHjiRg in the hospital at Mare Mtt i Island, in fact was a patient of ""f,1 TLeonaFelton and married her MM in 1945. THE COUPLE settled in ) Las Vegas, Nev. where he Vi became a real estate broker and retired from that in 1962. mi ' By 's Iime tne couPle nacl kePou'" three daughters, Kay, Calleen y'iiu' land Carla. The family went JjSij-i out as missionaries for the rStmd J LDS Church, serving in the 'mammi Gulf States, the Texas mis-g& mis-g& sion, Florida mission and the fe last was in Oklahoma which ended in 1972. THE FAMILY came to Farmington, where they had friends, and purchased the old home where they now live. Mr. Lichtenwalter is very active, is presently serving in the Third Ward bishopric. He enjoys gardening and fishing. Recently he returned from a fishing trip to the Toleda Bend Reservoir in the South. He and his wife have been restoring the old home where they reside, remodeling and making it a very lovely, livable liva-ble place. DAUGHTER Carla is still at home. The older girls have married. They own a 30 acre subdivision in Aurora, Utah. He makes the plastic name tags for missionaries, and looks forward to again serving serv-ing a mission with Mrs. Lich-1 tenwalter after Carla is married. HE HAS never let his disability interfere with a full, happy life for himself and his family, kj |