Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 September 1943 — Page 7

RAILROAD MAN'S FAMILY AT WAR

of Crestline, Ohio

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HIS is the story of a fighting American family « « + 8 Pennsylvania Railroad family : : : the

On December 31, 1940 . . . a year before Peat] Harbor, the Lightburns . . . father, mother, four girls, four sons . . . held 2 family reunion in the pleasant home where the children were born and reared.

Three of the boys were even then in the uniform of Uncle Sam's services. Natunlly, the conversation turned to nilrodding, for the Lightburns are a Penn. sylvania Railroad family. But it also concerned the war in which America was soon to be involved.

Today, this family group is scattered . . . all the boys officers in our Army or Navy. And the girls, too, are playing their part. Helen is a nurse, Jacqueline training to be a Navy nurse, while Sara and Virginia

_ are-capably taking the places of men in departments

of the Pennsylvania Railroad at Crestline. All honor to * im” Lightburn and to his good wife.

While rearing these eight fine children to manhood

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and womanhood, they saw to it that the children should be educated to fic them for life, and for our

~Nation’s service when the critical hour struck.

An unusual family? Not according to "Jim" Lighebum. But a family reared in the tradition of service ...ready when called to serve the cause of Freedom and their Country.

Pennsylvania Railroad salutes the Lightburas with pride and pleasure. A real railroad family, they are one of many railroad families who have given their sons and daughters to serve our Nation. Such fam-

ilies reflect the spirit and character of the manhood

and womanhood which enable this and all America’s railroads to meet successfully the vital transportation needs of our country at war, . * * * AT PRESENT, OUT OF 163,291 EMPLOYEES OF THE PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD, 35,863 ARE IN THE ARMED FORCES—AND 61 HAVE GIVEN THEIR LIVES FOR THEIR COUNTRY.

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