Fickinger, James

• Name	Fickinger, James  [1]
  	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 ,,, 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
  Gender	Male
  Person ID	I40398	WETZEL-SPRING

  
  

  Father	Fickinger, Charles Frederick jr,   b. 28 Oct 1928, Ford City, Armstrong, Pennsylvania, USA d. 16 Aug 2007, Coudersport, Potter, Pennsylvania, USA (Age 78 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Parisella, Jane Rose,   b. 24 Mar 1933, Oswego, Oswego, New York, USA d. 12 Aug 2004, Coudersport, Potter, Pennsylvania, USA (Age 71 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Marriage	1956
  Family ID	F12252	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family ID

  F44939

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  [S814] FaceBook- You know you're from Coudersport, PA if... Hebron, dance band, cabin fire- photos. Coudy teachers in a dance band, cabin fire- photos 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 _________________ 20211129GHLn- ... 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. ___________ 20240328GHLn- added from a much later post and FBGp, for the sake of completion: 0240328GHLn- FB You Know you're from Coudersport... Paula Pesock Mitchell 28 March 2024 · April 1954 Story on tragic fire that destroyed the camp known as Golly's Folly. Comments Linda Goodnoe Russell Such a tragedy Linda Teasley Such a tragedy 7h Reply John C Wetzel [Potter Journal_cabin fire 195404 FB151220DUlkins2.jpg] 10m Reply John C Wetzel [Potter Journal_cabin fire 195404 FB151220DUlkins3.jpg] 10m Reply Dale Angood FB 20151220 dance band father grmother history of fire mr Burger 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… 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… At least one living or private individual is linked to this item - Details withheld. 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… Potter Journal_cabin fire 195404 FB240328PaulaPMitchell 0240328GHLn- FB You Know you're from Coudersport... Paula Pesock Mitchell 28 March 2024 · April 1954 Story on tragic fire that destroyed the camp known as Golly's Folly. Comments Linda Goodnoe Russell Such a tragedy Linda Teasley Such a tragedy 7h Reply John C Wetzel [Potter Journal_cabin fire 195404 FB151220DUlkins2.jpg] 10m Reply John C…

  
  

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