UNITED STATES AIR FORCE

1ST RADIO RELAY SQUADRON

1st Radio Relay

Newsletter

Jan 21^st. 2012, Greetings to all our friends. I have felt bad that its been so long that I touched base with many of you. Those with email know much of the sorrow Faye and I have had to deal with the past 6 ½ months. Our oldest daughter, Nancy was told on June 24^th. That she had oral cancer. She waged a hard battle but on December she passed away. A Childs burial at Xmas is a very hard pill to swallow. She was the beauty and leader of our family. On the day she passed away, she told her brothers she was worried about Mom and Dad. Before I go on I want to THANK those who sent contributions for a Memorial for her. Our sons will host a charity gif event. The money raised there plus the donations sent by you and what our family will provide, we hope to make a significant donation to the hospice where she passed away.

Moving on we now have 236 names on our 1^st. Raio/12^th. Radio list We did not have that many when I last wrote where I asked for some help. I am very appreciative of the 9 people who sent help in these hard times. The new people we have located follows in the order that I have located them; Terry Annin, Wesley Bailey, Alfred Gabauer, Stanley, Jacobs, Paul Luchene, Jackie Riegel, Newton Westerman, Dale Vaughn, Fred Garrity, Hilary Fetzko, Eugene Ferraro, Roger Imhoff, Robert Mangold, James McNelly, Donald Winfield, Jerry Hamman, Charles Nottingham, Leo Slaughter, John Fichter, Harvey Tiede, Simeon Purinton, Richard Cole, Jack Mulanax, Ralph Vorhees, Harrold Woodard, Doyle Gibson, Ralph Malinowski, Frank Watson, Miguel Rivera, Dean Charron, Aldolph Drobish, Herman Ogletree, Gary Kinder, Jerry Urban, Benjamin Jones, Samuel Meggs, Rudy Zajac, Mike Giallongo, Carl Hazlett, Ron Mika, Wilbur Hahn, Richard Rober, Cecil Hollamon, LeRoy Anderson, Gary Peters, Rudolph Tscherne and John Gutierrez. I have talked to many of you and really enjoyed your stories. I am having our list updated as I type. If you want a copy please get in touch with me at, 410-861-5037 or Bristol boy@comcast.net . I would hope those with email can go to our web site to get all that info. In this mailing we will be sending out 87 letters, so you can see things are sky rocking. If you want a copy of all names I will be glad to send it to you free. Just a few more brief items. We will have our 20^th reunion in Dayton, Ohio in Sept. More info later on that. One of last years deaths was a Richard Smith ( Smitty as we called him ). He asked the question over 22 years ago if there were any 1^st. Radio troops still around. Well that got the ball rolling slow, but here we are today. Richard Smith deserves a lot of respect for what he has accomplished over the years. I “ Thank him “ for each of you. Also a thanks to Henry Sachs who keeps our website up to date and getting our emails out. God bless each of you and God Bless America. In closing, its nice to know so many nice people. Faye and John Seifert.