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Summary

This is a photo of the Vacation Bible School student body at the old Christian and Missionary Alliance Church on E. A Street, circa 1945. Identifying the teacher and some of the students, Jackie Ebersole wrote:

"I will start with Mrs Eshbaugh - going right to left in the back row, she is number 2. I am standing in front of her (4th row). Dale Painter is to my right. Not sure of next one. Then it is Tommy Hammond and Jobe Breeden and the one Buck (Musser) says is him.

Bernice Minnick is directly behind Jobe (5th row) and Nonie Chaney (Sigler) is on her left and Marcella Gall on her left. Frances Chaney is the other really blonde girl. Bonnie Kearfoot is in front of Jobe with the ribbon in her hair (3rd row).

The tallest women in the middle of the back row is Winnie Forrest's mother who was the teacher that taught bible stories with the use of a flannel board.

Sitting on the ground from the left to right, David (McIntosh) is the fourth one looking at the camera. Near him is someone with their arm in the air and next to him is my sister Beckie (McIntosh). Would know those bangs anywhere.

The Bryan children are on the right side of the picture--Loberta (Staley) is the dark girl with a white blouse and suspenders on her skirt. Next to her is her brother Delano and their sister Yvonne is the tiniest little girl second from the end sitting down in front row."

(Photo and information courtesy of Jackie Ebersole)