March-April, 1961 - Milwaukee Road Archive

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NATIONAL BANK
OF MILWAUKEE
Member
Federal Deposit Insuran,e
Corporation
Mich., became the recent bride of Airman
2/c Harold D. R.uegamer, son of
Engineer and Mrs. Everett Ruegamer of
Three Forks.
News was received recently in Deer
Lodge that Edward Sears, who retired
in 1943 as division master mechanic at that
point, died in his home in Cassopolis,
Mich., Feb. 3 after suffering a heart attack.
He was 86 years of age. Mr. Sears
was a veteran of 44 years of service, including
28 years at Deer Lodge. Funeral
and burial services were held in Cassopclis.
His survivors include a daughter,
Edith, a director of medical-social work
at Passavant Hospital in Chicago.
Chicago General Offices
AUDITOR OF EXPENDITURE'S OFFICE
Mary Harrison, Correspondent
Veronica Jr., daughter of Shop Timekeeper
Veronica Noncek, has received
her acceptance notice and will start
nurse's training in St. Elizabeth's school
of nursing in September. She will be
graduated from Leyden High School in
June.
Secretary Ellen Bonini's daughter,
Estelle, has passed her entrance examination
and will begin her "prep" training
in Nazareth Academy in La Grange
after her graduation from St. Bonaventure's
SC!lOol.
Retired Traveling Accountants John
Clarke, now of Seattle, Wash., and John
Buelting of Bartlett, Ill., extended personal
greetings to their former co-workers
when they visited the office Jan. 10.
The stork visited the homes of two
former keypunch operators from the supervisor
of machine accounting office,
leaving a baby boy named Daniel John
at Carol Kelley's and a baby girl named
Kimberly at Victoria Drain's.
Gerald Goebel of the shop timekeeping
bureau left Feb. 1 to report for military
service at Langley Air Force Base in
Texas.
Edward Zegler of the paymaster's
office became the proud father of a son
recently. This is the Zeglers' first child
and he was christened Douglas John.
Congratulations were in order when
Raymond Litke was appointed bureau
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A SILVER PASS OCCASION in Chicago
shows Traveling Time Inspector S. J. Farley
(right) being presented with the token
of his 45 years of service by R. P. Kouppi,
auditor of expenditure, as E. B. Gehrke,
assistant auditor of expenditure, looks on.
Starting as a clerk at Iron Mountain, Mich.,
Mr. Farley's service has been marked by
steady advancement through accounting
department positions, including division accountant,
supervisor of the centra lized T&E
timekeeping bureau, and chief time inspector.
In 1947 he was granted a leave
of absence to serve as an examiner for the
National Railroad Adjustment Boord. He
returned to the railroad and his present
position in 1952.
head of the miscellaneous accounts receivable
bureau and Emmett Moran became
the assistant bureau head.
Sympathy was extended to Rosemarie
Curtin of the A.F.E. bureau on the death
of her grandfather; to Jinuny Lynn of
the bill and voucher bureau on the loss
of his father; to Retired A.F.E. Clerk
John Mooney whose son passed away,
and to Edward Villella of the miscellaneous
accounts receivable bureau on the
death of his mother.
Traveling Time Inspector S. J. Farley's
daughter, Rosemary, recently presented
him with his 11th grandchild.
FREIGHT CLAIM DEPARTMENT
Robert A. Schlueter, Correspondent
Elmer Dancy, clerk, was in an automobile
accident near Cairo, Ill., Feb. 1.
Hospitalized with Elmer were his wife
and young child. At this writing the
entire family are doing well in spite of
serious injuries.
Walter Walsh, 57, formerly a clerk in
the sales bureau, passed away Feb. 6.
Walter started with the freight claim de­
'partment May 13, 1920 and on Jan. 26,
1956 took a disability pension after a
long illness. Interment was in All Saints
Cemetery.
Richard Timm has left us to join the
data processing staff.
Charlie La Rue and wife Judy announced
the birth of a daughter, Cynthia
Ann, Feb. 13.
Lloyd Rugen recently moved into his
new home near Glenview.
Two new employes-James Maxim and
James Slovacek-were recently welcomed
to the office.
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