Rev. Wilson Installed

Herald of Sept. 13, 1945

When Staff Sergeant Nelson E. Ake, aged 25, son of Mr. and Mrs. Homer N. Ake of Royer, walked in on the home folks Monday evening, they hardly knew him for he had been away at war for four years, less 22 days, and this was his first visit home during all that time.

Rev. Millard G. Wilson will be officially installed as pastor of the Memorial Church of the Brethren at the Sunday service.

They were just two boys among around 15,000 being brought home from Europe on the huge liner, the Queen Elizabeth.

When two days out from Southampton, England, they ran across each other on one of the promenade decks.

The boys were Staff Sergeant Dean M. Frederick, aged 20, and Pfc. Leonard R. Johnson, aged 23. Both were Air Force men. They had been boyhood pals back in Woodbury.

Both saw each other at about the same time. “Hello there, Dean,” called out one. “Why, Len, where did you come from,” said the other.

Neither had known that the other was on board.