Looking Back:
Rocky Ridge Woman Becomes POW by James Rada, Jr. Edna E. Miller of Rocky Ridge was a young, idealistic teacher in 1940. The graduate of Western Maryland College (McDaniel College) had taught at schools in Rocky Ridge and Thurmont, but her life changed when she joined the faculty of a school outside of Washington, D.C.…
Seek, Find, and Destroy
by Priscilla Rall The mission of the “Silent Service” is to “Seek, Find, and Destroy.” Raymond Lloyd, from near Ladiesburg, lived that mission during WWII. He started in humble beginnings, born in Hanover, Pennsylvania, to Raymond and Mary Catherine Neller Lloyd in 1921. He was the oldest of three children. His father was a machinist,…
Veteran Spotlight
by Priscilla Rall Raymond Lloyd Raymond Lloyd was born in 1921 in Hanover, Pennsylvania, and graduated from high school in 1939. He is a small, unassuming gentleman, who lives near Ladiesburg with his wife. He worked at the Naval Ordnance Plant in York, Pennsylvania, but left to join the Navy in May 1942. After completing…
Jim Wisotzkey’s Luck Held Through World War II
James Rada, Jr. Jim Wisotzskey considers himself the luckiest guy in the world. He is ninety-three years old and is still going strong. He has lived in Thurmont all of his life, except for a few years in the 1940s during World War II. He survived the war, barely missing several times when he could…
Our Neighborhood Veterans
by Jim Houck, Jr. 1ST LIEUTENANT GEORGE WARREN BAKER, U.S. ARMY AIR CORPS Born on April 5, 1921, just north of Thurmont at Franklinville, to Roy and Blanche Baker, was a boy they named George. George had three brothers and two sisters: Raymond, Donald, and Leroy, and Ruth and Helen (nicknamed Tootie). In 1940, at…
