Petoskey WWII veteran never had to leave the U.S. By Tamara Stevens Hubert Hayes, 95, a retired dentist in Petoskey, is extremely modest about his service to his country during World War II. “I never left the U.S.,” he said, laughing. “I went where they told me to go and I did what they asked me to do and it worked out.” Where the military sent him was Biloxi, Mississippi, to Keesler Air Force Base. That was the first Hayes knew he was in the Air Force, he said. He didn’t req

Petoskey man took part in the Battle of Midway in 1942 Anyone who has seen a movie about the Battle of Midway during WWII has a fairly good understanding of what Winfield Josiah Sluyter’s experience was like. “Win,” as he is called, served as an aircraft mechanic in the U.S. Navy during WWII in the Pacific Ocean aboard an aircraft carrier. He was assigned to a Casablanca-class escort carrier named “U.S.S. Savo Island,” a CVE 78. Win Sluyter pictured in his living room, 2019.

The following is a note regarding one of Greenwood Cemetery's annual history books. In 2021, the theme was "The Suffragists of Greenwood.' Before Karl Crawford asked if I would be interested in this project, I will regretfully admit, I didn’t know anything, nor really hold sufficient appreciation, for woman suffrage. The lonely bit of information I had came from the “Sister Suffragette” song in Disney’s “Mary Poppins.” As it turned out, I had a lot to learn. Absorbing oneself