Peggy can be found at www.classmates.com. She is in the Class of 1964 for Hillsboro High School in Hillsboro, Illinois. She was a classmate of mine. Hopefully, she'll be at our 40th reunion this summer. (Has it been that long??? I'm not that old!!!!) Good luck. Judy Keith Dalhaus----- Original Message ----- From: "Mokurai" <mokurai@dodo.com.au> To: <ILMONTGO-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 2004 5:00 AM Subject: [ILMONTGO] Peggy Beach > Hi All, > > I just had someone reply to my request to find my pen pal Peggy. Unfortunately I had just started to use the program Mailwasher Pro and forgot to untick where it says delete. When that person's email came in it was deleted before I had a chance to transfer it to my Outlook Express. If that person is on the List I would appreciate it if he/she could please reply to me again. Thank you. > > Hooray, > > Warren Power in Ballarat, Australia (ex Kiwi). > > > ==== ILMONTGO Mailing List ==== > Montgomery Co IL Mail List is for Genealogical research do not send Virus warnings to the list. "Problems with the Montgomery Co IL Mail list contact Tim Casey timcasey59@earthlink.net. > >

Hi Judy, Thanks for that. You wouldn't happen to have a guy by the name of SODERSINSKI by any chance No guarrantee on the spelling though. When I was up North with the Far East Fleet in 1962-3 I met this guy off the USS Topeka. He was a Marine and came from Hillsboro, Illinois. Four of us, from HMNZS Taranaki (NZ) were dressed in civilain clothes and had met up with four Americans the day before. We met again and as time went by other Americans gathered around us until there were a dozen of them. Then in walked two others. One said "Hi you guys", and I replied Hi. He looked at me and said "Hey...you're not of the Topeka". I replied "who says I'm not off the Topeka?" He thought for a minute and said "who's the Captain?" To this I replied, "How the hell should I know?" And another American...in uniform said..."Yeah....even I don't know that!" A change of tactics..."Where are you from?' he asked. "Illinois." I replied. "Hey I'm from Illinois....whereabouts?" Hillsboro, I said. "Hey I'm from Hillsboro...whereabouts?" By now he was getting excited...a fellow American from his own town! Then I remembered my pen pal Peggy Beach, whom I had written to from school when I was about 8 -9 years old. Couldn't remember her address of course as that had been 9 -10 years earlier. "Beach Road", I replied. "Na....I don't know that road". "Of course you know Beach Road!", I led him on. Na...don't know that road." "You must know Beach Road....everyone knows it!" I came back. "Na....I don't know Beach Road." "Of course you know Beach Road", I pushed him a wee bit further. Then his face lit up "Oh...of course...I know Beach Road." By this time all the Americans are silently splitting their sides. "Yes," I said, "I am NZ16817 off HMNZS Taranaki!". For the rest of the night he went around trying to talk like a Limey. He also gave me one of his dog tags which I kept for years....most probably still have it too if it wasn't for my three sons playing with it as they grew up. It said he was RC (Roman Catholic?) if that helps. I carried the nickname of Speed and he may remember me by that. As for has it been that long...I just had my 40th wedding aniversary...scary eh! 15th February 1964. Five kids....15 grandkids...and one on the way. Hooray, Warren. www.genealogy.com/users/p/o/w/Warren-C-Power/index.html http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~mokurai http://au.geocities.com/mokurai1944 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Judy Dalhaus" <judydoll@wamusa.com> To: <ILMONTGO-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 2004 11:40 PM Subject: Re: [ILMONTGO] Peggy Beach > Peggy can be found at www.classmates.com. She is in the Class of 1964 for > Hillsboro High School in Hillsboro, Illinois. She was a classmate of mine. > Hopefully, she'll be at our 40th reunion this summer. (Has it been that > long??? I'm not that old!!!!) Good luck. Judy Keith Dalhaus----- Original > Message ----- > From: "Mokurai" <mokurai@dodo.com.au> > To: <ILMONTGO-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 2004 5:00 AM > Subject: [ILMONTGO] Peggy Beach > > > > Hi All, > > > > I just had someone reply to my request to find my pen pal Peggy. > Unfortunately I had just started to use the program Mailwasher Pro and > forgot to untick where it says delete. When that person's email came in it > was deleted before I had a chance to transfer it to my Outlook Express. If > that person is on the List I would appreciate it if he/she could please > reply to me again. Thank you. > > > > Hooray, > > > > Warren Power in Ballarat, Australia (ex Kiwi). > > > > > > ==== ILMONTGO Mailing List ==== > > Montgomery Co IL Mail List is for Genealogical research do not send Virus > warnings to the list. "Problems with the Montgomery Co IL Mail list contact > Tim Casey timcasey59@earthlink.net. > > > > > > > ==== ILMONTGO Mailing List ==== > Visit the Montgomery County ILGenWeb Home Page! > http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilmontgo/ > >