Fickinger, Charles Frederick jr b. 28 Oct 1928 Ford City, Armstrong, Pennsylvania, USA d. 16 Aug 2007 Coudersport, Potter, Pennsylvania, USA: WETZEL Extended Family & More

Fickinger, Charles Frederick jr

1928 - 2007 (78 years)

Name	Fickinger, Charles Frederick [1, 2]
Suffix	jr
Birth	28 Oct 1928	Ford City, Armstrong, Pennsylvania, USA [1, 2]
Gender	Male
Residence	1930	Ford City, Armstrong, Pennsylvania, USA [2]
Sport	Abt Sep 1942	Coudersport, Potter, Pennsylvania, USA [3]
	CHS 1942 football squad. Members: Leonard Treat, Jim Pfuntner, Lewis Schaub , Charles Fickinger, Paul Boyd, Walt Glassmire (captain), Ed Secott, Bob Dewey, m Huntington; Arthur DuBois, Coach Baker, Dunkleberger, Hoxie Corey, Paul Hawkins, Carl Roberts, Coach Springman.
	20221217GHLn- Lanny Nunn December 15, 2022 at 5:51 PM · Potter Enterprize, ... Out Of The Attic You had to be tough to be a football player in the 1940s. Protective equipment was minimal and the ground was hard and rocky. This was the Coudersport HS team of 1942. Left to right, the team members included: Leonard Treat, Jim Pfuntner, Lewis Schaub , Charles Fickinger (kneeling in front), Paul Boyd, Walt Glassmire (captain, holding ball), Ed Secott, Bob Dewey and Sam Huntington; back- Arthur DuBois, Coach Baker, Dunkleberger, Hoxie Corey, Paul Hawkins, Carl Roberts and Coach Springman (partly obscured man is not identified). We'll have another photo of this team in our 1993 Fall Sports Preview, which will be published in the Sept. 1 edition of the Leader-Enterprise. As usual, the focus will be on HS, college and professional football, as well as the local scholastic volleyball, soccer, cross country and golf teams that are preparing for the 1993 season. 3 comments John C Wetzel Tom Roberts Jeffrey Roberts Your dad; all those years growing up next door neighbors, it never occurred to me that he might have been a great HS athlete. He’s easy to pick out of a crowd, even way back then. Looks a lot like you, Tom. JUST like you! Reply1hEdited Tom Roberts Thanks, John. Lots of familiar faces on the team. Louie Schaub went on to play in our college (as an end!). There’s our old HS chemistry in front, and many others. They had even worse equipment and fewer players than we did as seniors. BTW, my brother Jeff died two years ago only 65. Way too soon. Hope all is well and thanks again. Reply48m John C Wetzel Tom Roberts ???? I am so sorry about Jeff, Tom! Members: Leonard Treat, Jim Pfuntner, Lewis Schaub , Charles Fickinger, Paul Boyd, Walt Glassmire (captain), Ed Secott, Bob Dewey, m Huntington; Arthur DuBois, Coach Baker, Dunkleberger, Hoxie Corey, Paul Hawkins, Carl Roberts, Coach Springman.
Education	1946	Coudersport, Potter, Pennsylvania, USA
	Senior year, yearbook p.16
Sport	1946	Coudersport, Potter, Pennsylvania, USA
	CHS basketball team
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Sport	1946	Coudersport, Potter, Pennsylvania, USA [4]
	CHS football
	20180823HAv- Leon Sevinsky in the U.S., School Yearbooks, 1900-1990 Name: Leon Sevinsky Estimated Age: 16 Birth Year: abt 1930 Yearbook Date: 1946 School: Coudersport High School School Location: Coudersport, Pennsylvania Source Citation "U.S., School Yearbooks, 1880-2012"; Year: 1946 Source Information Ancestry.com. U.S., School Yearbooks, 1900-1990 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010. Original data: Various school yearbooks from across the United States.
Graduation	Abt Jun 1946	Coudersport, Potter, Pennsylvania, USA
	CHS senior, p.16
	20171217 RVA- Lanny Nunn?You know you're from Coudersport, PA if.......... Yesterday · 17 December 2017 1946 Coudrian yearbook CHS seniors, p.16 - Bruce Chamberlin- 205 South East St - Glenora Chilson- Avenue A - Betty Clark - 502 South Main St - Donna Cox - 748 North Main St - Norma Crosby - 406 South Main St - Phyllis Darrin - 56 Port Allegany Road - Barbara Davey 364 Center Park - Charles Fickinger - 210 North East St Like Comment 18 You, Dale Ulkins and 16 others Comments John Christy Wetzel Charlie Fickinger, taught chemistry and physics at Coudersport, one of the surviving boys in the cabin fire near Potato City, pulled his friend Jim(?) Berger out, saving his life. Like · Reply · 7 · Yesterday at 9:05am Tami Hood Hey that's my momma. Norma Crosby Like · Reply · 2 · Yesterday at 11:10am Dale Ulkins Oh my goodness, it sure is! What a cutie. Like · Reply · 3 · Yesterday at 11:17am Chris Bigham My great Aunt Phyllis! Like · Reply · Yesterday at 11:37am Ray Nelson Barbara Hackett? Like · Reply · 20 hrs Jim Zeaman I had Mr Fickinger for chemistry Like · Reply · 3 hrs
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Accident	Abt 1950	Coudersport, Potter, Pennsylvania, USA [5]
	cabin fire, a gallon of gasoline was spilled near fireplace- 2 fatalities, one badly burned...
	Fickinger was credited with having saved Berger's life by pulling him from the cabin. Dale Angood?You know you're from Coudersport, PA if.......... December 20 · 2015 Here's a question for the old timers. I'm guessing this photo is from about 1947- 53. That's my dad Robert on the chord organ, grandmother Mabel at the piano and Frankie Slamecka on drums. Can anyone supply a name for the sax player? My mom thought his last name was Hosley. Don't know if that is correct. When I was very young, Dad told a story about their sax player dying in a cabin fire. Apparently the fire started when he dropped a glass jug of gasoline. Dad pointed out the site where the cabin used to be, down over the bank in the woods, on the way to Denton Hill. The chimney may still have been standing then. I had the impression that it was my grandad's (John) cabin but again, I'm not sure. I was about 5 or 6 when I first heard the story. LikeCommentShare 24 people like this. Comments Dale Ulkins Dale Ulkins What an incredible photo. I had no idea Frank Slameca was a drummer. The fire sounds like the fire that also involved teacher Jim Berger. If so I'll dig out the old scrapbooks and try to photograph the story. I remember it being in one of them. Like · Reply · 3 · December 20 at 12:10pm Lila Watkins Lila Watkins Don't know if Jeannette Buck belongs to this site. She might know answer to some of your questions. Like · Reply · December 20 at 1:49pm Jeannette Buck Jeannette Buck Nope, can't help here. Like · Reply · December 20 at 2:46pm View more replies John Christy Wetzel Thomas Maynard Thomas Maynard The burned cabin sounds like Old Bill Fish's "Golly's Folly" located in the place you describe, the Nine mine creek. A Kelsey boy died in that fire. One of the survivors, still living is Jim Berger.. Like · Reply · 4 · December 20 at 12:17pm · Edited Dale Angood Dale Angood Kelsey sounds kind of like Hosley. Like · Reply · 3 · December 20 at 12:33pm John Christy Wetzel Write a reply... Choose File Thomas Maynard Thomas Maynard Frankie was quite a drum player. He also had a uniform and played in the CHS marching band in the forties. Like · Reply · 3 · December 20 at 12:14pm Dale Ulkins Dale Ulkins Hi Tom, I had no idea about Frank. They were a wonderful family. Merry Christmas to Mrs. Maynard and you!! Like · Reply · 1 · December 20 at 12:21pm John Christy Wetzel Write a reply... Choose File Dale Angood Dale Angood I appreciate the help. I already know more than I did. I remember Bill Fish as one of Grandad's friends so that part makes sense. I remember us visiting Frank when I was young. They lived in one of the last houses up on the bank before Rubbertown. Like · Reply · December 20 at 12:43pm Dale Angood Dale Angood Found a reference here to Bill Fish's cabin. http://www.stc-hike.org/Newsletter/200307.pdf Like · Reply · 1 · December 20 at 1:02pm Paul Lynn Gardner Paul Lynn Gardner Here is a photo of Bill Fish and my Dad, Larry Gardner, sawing a log at Bill's camp. This would have been in the 1940's. Paul Lynn Gardner's photo. Like · Reply · 3 · December 20 at 3:49pm · Edited John Christy Wetzel Write a reply... Choose File Dale Angood Dale Angood And another: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr... William Delos "Golly" Fish (1875 - 1969) -… FINDAGRAVE.COM Like · Reply · 2 · December 20 at 1:06pm Leon B Reed Sr Leon B Reed Sr Is that Mable Buck Like · Reply · December 20 at 1:22pm Dale Angood Dale Angood Mable Chilson Angood Like · Reply · 1 · December 20 at 1:33pm · Edited John Christy Wetzel Write a reply... Choose File Deborah Barber Deborah Barber Neat picture Like · Reply · 1 · December 20 at 1:27pm Ed Darrin Ed Darrin it was Jim Berger's father's camp Dale Angood Like · Reply · 2 · December 20 at 1:40pm Thomas Maynard Thomas Maynard Nope Eddie. See other comments to get it right. smile emoticon Like · Reply · December 21 at 3:15am · Edited John Christy Wetzel Write a reply... Choose File Susan Busch Holmberg Susan Busch Holmberg There was a fire in a cabin that some young men died. Jim Burger who ended up being a history teacher at CHS. Jim was one of the men in the fire, but he lived but was very badly burned. Yes one of the boys did drop a glass gallon of gasline in front of a fire place and that's what started the fire. Like · Reply · 2 · December 20 at 3:03pm Dale Ulkins Dale Ulkins Here ya go,Dale Angood. It was too large to shoot in one image so I broke it up into three pieces. Dale Ulkins's photo. Like · Reply · 5 · December 20 at 3:32pm Mary Fickinger Pepper Mary Fickinger Pepper Yes, James Fickinger, our dad, Charles Fickinger, was also there at the party, which I remember as being Mr. Berger's bachelor party. Like · Reply · 1 · December 21 at 7:40am George Finster George Finster Always thought his burns were military related and know I know the real reason thanks. Like · Reply · December 21 at 12:03pm John Christy Wetzel Dale Ulkins's photo. Like · Reply · 6 · December 20 at 3:33pm Paul Lynn Gardner Paul Lynn Gardner I've heard this story from so many people who have passed on. Very interesting to see the facts and photos in print. Thanks Dale for sharing your mother's priceless archives. Like · Reply · 2 · December 20 at 4:04pm Dale Ulkins Dale Ulkins It's a pretty grim story. I had no idea Charlie Fickinger was even there let alone responsible for saving Jim Berger's life! Like · Reply · 4 · December 20 at 4:10pm View more replies John Christy Wetzel Dale Ulkins's photo. Like · Reply · 7 · December 20 at 3:34pm Linda Hemphill Linda Hemphill Jack Kelsey would of been my uncle....he died before I was born....my father doesnt talk alot about the fire.....heard the story from my grandma as we were growing up.... Like · Reply · 4 · December 20 at 5:51pm Donna Kelsey Foust Donna Kelsey Foust Thanks for all the history. Jack would have been my uncle also. I'm going to print the articles to save. Like · Reply · 3 · December 20 at 7:02pm Dale Angood Dale Angood WOW!! What a response! Thank you everone for your contributions. Especially Dale Ulkins for photographing the artcle. I'm going to try to figure out how to save this entire conversation. Like · Reply · 3 · December 20 at 7:41pm Dale Ulkins replied · 1 Reply Rocky Bretz Rocky Bretz Had the pleasure of working with Frankie at the elementary school for a few years...he would have to leave everyday for n hour or so to go put on his Polka Party at the radio station Like · Reply · 6 · December 20 at 8:47pm Dirk Anderson replied · 1 Reply Ray Nelson Ray Nelson I think Mr. jim Berger might know who that is. Like · Reply · December 20 at 9:33pm Steven J Heimel Steven J Heimel Yes, the camp burned to the ground, two dead. Only the chimney was left. I remember going out there with Grandaddy, Dad and Uncle Bill to build a woodshed, pour a foundation and build a new camp on the site. Like · Reply · 3 · December 21 at 2:28am James Fickinger James Fickinger yes but i think the fire you are all talking abuot jim berger happen up behind golf corse were he has his home today my father was ther then Like · Reply · December 21 at 5:09am James Fickinger James Fickinger my sisters mite know more Like · Reply · December 21 at 5:10am
CAHS	Coudersport, Potter, Pennsylvania, USA
	high school teacher- chemistry & physics
FSID	GQD7-T3G
Name	Charlie
Occupation	Coudersport, Potter, Pennsylvania, USA
	high school teacher- chemistry & physics
Death	16 Aug 2007	Coudersport, Potter, Pennsylvania, USA [1, 2]
	age 78
Burial	Aft 16 Aug 2007	Woodland (Five Corners) Cemetery, Hebron, Potter, Pennsylvania, USA
Person ID	I40397	WETZEL-SPRING

Father	Fickinger, Charles Frederick sr, b. 8 Jul 1902, Pennsylvania, USA d. 4 Apr 1955, Coudersport, Potter, Pennsylvania, USA (Age 52 years)
Relationship	natural
Mother	Toward, Ellen T, b. 12 Oct 1906, Bay City, Bay, Michigan, USA d. 20 Apr 1992, Coudersport, Potter, Pennsylvania, USA (Age 85 years)
Relationship	natural
Family ID	F52175	Group Sheet \| Family Chart

Family ID F34988 Group Sheet | Family Chart

Family Parisella, Jane Rose, b. 24 Mar 1933, Oswego, Oswego, New York, USA d. 12 Aug 2004, Coudersport, Potter, Pennsylvania, USA (Age 71 years)

Marriage 1956

Children

	1. Fickinger, M.E.
	2. Fickinger, James [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]

Family ID F12252 Group Sheet | Family Chart

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	Birth - 28 Oct 1928 - Ford City, Armstrong, Pennsylvania, USA
	Residence - 1930 - Ford City, Armstrong, Pennsylvania, USA
	Sport - CHS 1942 football squad. Members: Leonard Treat, Jim Pfuntner, Lewis Schaub , Charles Fickinger, Paul Boyd, Walt Glassmire (captain), Ed Secott, Bob Dewey, m Huntington; Arthur DuBois, Coach Baker, Dunkleberger, Hoxie Corey, Paul Hawkins, Carl Roberts, Coach Springman. - Abt Sep 1942 - Coudersport, Potter, Pennsylvania, USA
	Education - Senior year, yearbook p.16 - 1946 - Coudersport, Potter, Pennsylvania, USA
	Sport - CHS basketball team - 1946 - Coudersport, Potter, Pennsylvania, USA
	Sport - CHS football - 1946 - Coudersport, Potter, Pennsylvania, USA
	Graduation - CHS senior, p.16 - Abt Jun 1946 - Coudersport, Potter, Pennsylvania, USA
	Accident - cabin fire, a gallon of gasoline was spilled near fireplace- 2 fatalities, one badly burned... - Abt 1950 - Coudersport, Potter, Pennsylvania, USA
	CAHS - high school teacher- chemistry & physics - - Coudersport, Potter, Pennsylvania, USA
	Occupation - high school teacher- chemistry & physics - - Coudersport, Potter, Pennsylvania, USA
	Death - 16 Aug 2007 - Coudersport, Potter, Pennsylvania, USA
	Burial - Aft 16 Aug 2007 - Woodland (Five Corners) Cemetery, Hebron, Potter, Pennsylvania, USA

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Photos » Slide Show		yearbook CHS 1946 p16 Fickinger,Ch_ FB171217LN cropped from 20171217 RVA- Lanny Nunn?You know you're from Coudersport, PA if.......... Yesterday · 17 December 2017 1946 Like Comment 18 You, Dale Ulkins and 16 others Comments John Christy Wetzel John Christy Wetzel Charlie Fickinger, taught chemistry and physics at Coudersport, one of the surviving boys in the cabin fire near Potato City,…
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		newspaper, Potter Journal_One Youth Critical After Cabin Burns_Berger, Fickinger, Kelsey by Ulkins 20171217 RVA- repasted from front Notes- Dale Ulkins December 20 · 2015 Here ya go,Dale Angood. It was too large to shoot in one image so I broke it up into three pieces. LikeComment Paul Lynn Gardner, Dale Angood and 3 others like this. Comments Mary Fickinger Pepper Mary Fickinger Pepper Yes, James Fickinger, our dad, Charles Fickinger, was…
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		newspaper, Potter Journal_One Youth Critical After Cabin Burns_Berger, Fickinger, Kelsey by Ulkins3 20171217 RVA- repasted from front Notes- Dale Ulkins December 20 · 2015 LikeComment Paul Lynn Gardner, Larry Herbstritt, Dale Angood and 3 others like this. Comments Paul Lynn Gardner Paul Lynn Gardner I've heard this story from so many people who have passed on. Very interesting to see the facts and photos in print. Thanks Dale for sharing your…
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[S2028] FaceBook- Potter McKean Genealogy, Lanny Nunn December 15, 2022 Out Of The Attic CHS 1942 football squad.
Carl Roberts (1) fact
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December 15, 2022 at 5:51 PM ·

Potter Enterprize, ...
Out Of The Attic
You had to be tough to be a football player in the 1940s. Protective equipment was minimal and the ground was hard and rocky. This was the Coudersport HS tam of 1942. Lft to right, the team members included:
Leonard Treat,
Jim Pfuntner,
Lewis Schaub ,
Charles Fickinger (kneeling in front),
Paul Boyd,
Walt Glassmire (captain, holding ball),
Ed Secott,
Bob Dewey and
Sam Huntington;
back- Arthur DuBois,
Coach Baker,
Dunkleberger,
Hoxie Corey,
Paul Hawkins,
Carl Roberts and
Coach Springman (partly obscured man is not identified). We'll have another photo of this team in our 1993 Fall Sports Preview, which will be published in the Sept. 1 edition of the Leader-Enterprise. As usual, the focus will be on HS, college and professional football, as well as the local scholastic volleyball, soccer, cross country and golf teams that are preparing for the 1993 season.

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John C Wetzel
Tom Roberts Jeffrey Roberts Your dad; all those years growing up next door neighbors, it never occurred to me that he might have been a great HS athlete. He’s easy to pick out of a crowd, even way back then. Looks a lot like you, Tom. JUST like you!
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Tom Roberts
Thanks, John. Lots of familiar faces on the team. Louie Schaub went on to play in our college (as an end!). There’s our old HS chemistry in front, and many others. They had even worse equipment and fewer players than we did as seniors. BTW, my brother Jeff died two years ago only 65. Way too soon. Hope all is well and thanks again.
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John C Wetzel
Tom Roberts ???? I am so sorry about Jeff, Tom!

Chyrl Cahilly
My father was Paul Boyd. I have another football picture but I’ve never seen this one. Thanks
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[S1129] Ancestry.com, U.S., School Yearbooks, 1880-2012, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2010;), "U.S., School Yearbooks, 1880-2012"; Year: 1946 Caviliegno, Butler, Sevinsky, Fickinger, Sereno.
Record for Leon Sevinsky
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Leon Sevinsky in the U.S., School Yearbooks, 1900-1990
Name: Leon Sevinsky
Estimated Age: 16
Birth Year: abt 1930
Yearbook Date: 1946
School: Coudersport High School
School Location: Coudersport, Pennsylvania

Source Citation
"U.S., School Yearbooks, 1880-2012"; Year: 1946

Source Information
Ancestry.com. U.S., School Yearbooks, 1900-1990 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010.
Original data: Various school yearbooks from across the United States.

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Leon Sevinsky in the U.S., School Yearbooks, 1900-1990
Name: Leon Sevinsky
Estimated Age: 16
Birth Year: abt 1930
Yearbook Date: 1946
School: Coudersport High School
School Location: Coudersport, Pennsylvania

Source Citation
"U.S., School Yearbooks, 1880-2012"; Year: 1946

Source Information
Ancestry.com. U.S., School Yearbooks, 1900-1990 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010.
Original data: Various school yearbooks from across the United States.
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December 20 · 2015

Here's a question for the old timers. I'm guessing this photo is from about 1947- 53. That's my dad Robert on the chord organ, grandmother Mabel at the piano and Frankie Slamecka on drums. Can anyone supply a name for the sax player? My mom thought his last name was Hosley. Don't know if that is correct. When I was very young, Dad told a story about their sax player dying in a cabin fire. Apparently the fire started when he dropped a glass jug of gasoline. Dad pointed out the site where the cabin used to be, down over the bank in the woods, on the way to Denton Hill. The chimney may still have been standing then.
I had the impression that it was my grandad's (John) cabin but again, I'm not sure. I was about 5 or 6 when I first heard the story.
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Dale Ulkins
Dale Ulkins What an incredible photo. I had no idea Frank Slameca was a drummer. The fire sounds like the fire that also involved teacher Jim Berger. If so I'll dig out the old scrapbooks and try to photograph the story. I remember it being in one of them.
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Lila Watkins
Lila Watkins Don't know if Jeannette Buck belongs to this site. She might know answer to some of your questions.
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Jeannette Buck
Jeannette Buck Nope, can't help here.
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Thomas Maynard
Thomas Maynard The burned cabin sounds like Old Bill Fish's "Golly's Folly" located in the place you describe, the Nine mine creek. A Kelsey boy died in that fire. One of the survivors, still living is Jim Berger..
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Dale Angood
Dale Angood Kelsey sounds kind of like Hosley.
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Thomas Maynard
Thomas Maynard Frankie was quite a drum player. He also had a uniform and played in the CHS marching band in the forties.
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Dale Ulkins
Dale Ulkins Hi Tom, I had no idea about Frank. They were a wonderful family. Merry Christmas to Mrs. Maynard and you!!
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Dale Angood
Dale Angood I appreciate the help. I already know more than I did. I remember Bill Fish as one of Grandad's friends so that part makes sense. I remember us visiting Frank when I was young. They lived in one of the last houses up on the bank before Rubbertown.
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Dale Angood
Dale Angood Found a reference here to Bill Fish's cabin. http://www.stc-hike.org/Newsletter/200307.pdf
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Paul Lynn Gardner
Paul Lynn Gardner Here is a photo of Bill Fish and my Dad, Larry Gardner, sawing a log at Bill's camp. This would have been in the 1940's.
Paul Lynn Gardner's photo.
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Dale Angood
Dale Angood And another: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr...

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Leon B Reed Sr
Leon B Reed Sr Is that Mable Buck
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Dale Angood
Dale Angood Mable Chilson Angood
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Deborah Barber
Deborah Barber Neat picture
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Ed Darrin
Ed Darrin it was Jim Berger's father's camp Dale Angood
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Thomas Maynard
Thomas Maynard Nope Eddie. See other comments to get it right. smile emoticon
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Susan Busch Holmberg
Susan Busch Holmberg There was a fire in a cabin that some young men died. Jim Burger who ended up being a history teacher at CHS. Jim was one of the men in the fire, but he lived but was very badly burned. Yes one of the boys did drop a glass gallon of gasline in front of a fire place and that's what started the fire.
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Dale Ulkins
Dale Ulkins Here ya go,Dale Angood. It was too large to shoot in one image so I broke it up into three pieces.
Dale Ulkins's photo.
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Mary Fickinger Pepper
Mary Fickinger Pepper Yes, James Fickinger, our dad, Charles Fickinger, was also there at the party, which I remember as being Mr. Berger's bachelor party.
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George Finster
George Finster Always thought his burns were military related and know I know the real reason thanks.
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John Christy Wetzel

Dale Ulkins's photo.
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Paul Lynn Gardner
Paul Lynn Gardner I've heard this story from so many people who have passed on. Very interesting to see the facts and photos in print. Thanks Dale for sharing your mother's priceless archives.
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Dale Ulkins
Dale Ulkins It's a pretty grim story. I had no idea Charlie Fickinger was even there let alone responsible for saving Jim Berger's life!
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Dale Ulkins's photo.
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Linda Hemphill
Linda Hemphill Jack Kelsey would of been my uncle....he died before I was born....my father doesnt talk alot about the fire.....heard the story from my grandma as we were growing up....
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Donna Kelsey Foust
Donna Kelsey Foust Thanks for all the history. Jack would have been my uncle also. I'm going to print the articles to save.
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Dale Angood
Dale Angood WOW!! What a response! Thank you everone for your contributions. Especially Dale Ulkins for photographing the artcle. I'm going to try to figure out how to save this entire conversation.
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Rocky Bretz
Rocky Bretz Had the pleasure of working with Frankie at the elementary school for a few years...he would have to leave everyday for n hour or so to go put on his Polka Party at the radio station
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Ray Nelson
Ray Nelson I think Mr. jim Berger might know who that is.
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Steven J Heimel
Steven J Heimel Yes, the camp burned to the ground, two dead. Only the chimney was left. I remember going out there with Grandaddy, Dad and Uncle Bill to build a woodshed, pour a foundation and build a new camp on the site.
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James Fickinger
James Fickinger yes but i think the fire you are
all talking abuot jim berger happen up behind golf corse were he has his home today my father was ther then
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James Fickinger
James Fickinger my sisters mite know more
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Burial will be taken to Perry, O., where committal services will be held at the cemetery there, at 1:30 pm, sunday. Friends may call at the Grabe Funeral Home starting this afternoon.
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Paula Pesock Mitchell
28 March 2024

· April 1954
Story on tragic fire that destroyed the camp known as Golly's Folly.

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Linda Goodnoe Russell
Such a tragedy

Linda Teasley
Such a tragedy
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John C Wetzel
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