Growing Up in Williamsport, Ohio

Comments About Mr. Howard Pond
 
I want to thank everyone for their comments regarding Mr. Pond. It happened because all of you knew him better than I did. I knew him as a 16-and-17-year-old student. Some of you knew him for the rest of his life and what an exemplary life he led. Dale Minor provided the following and I think it should be shared.
 
“Howard “Rowdy” Pond Jr. was raised near Langsville, OH, Meigs County. He died April 3, 2011 at age 89. He had graduated from Rutland H.S. (near where I now live). Started at OU, Athens, OH, but his college was interrupted by his service in WWII. He served under Geo. Patton and achieved the rank of master sergeant. After the war he went back to OU to get his degree in education. He was married to Pauline for 59 years before she died. He lived another 9 years. Both of them were cremated and their ashes comingled. The ashes were then interred in the cemetery at Canansville Methodist Church a few miles east of Athens. I had visited Mr. Pond at a nursing home in Pickerington the summer before he died. His mind was sharp and he remembered a letter I had written him while I was on a business trip in Japan in 1972.“

Enjoy the photos. They were provided by Rick and Pat Pond.

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Photography/graphics by Michele Ferguson Schuck