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Pegs and Marks 2nd Birthday Party 1948
Peg celebrated her second birthday along with some friends and her cousin Mark.
Little did Peg realize that two years later she would have a little sister, Criss.
Ten years after Criss was born, she would get a little brother Charlie. Peg would then refer to the time before Charlie (James Dad) was born as BC – Before Charlie.
In 2003 her nephew was born and he would have the exact same birthdate as his Aunt, September 18th. They would celebrate birthdays together after that.
But for this moment in time, its just Peg and Mark with some friends and the world was a much quieter place then.
Virginia Graduates High School
Virginia Kleiber graduates from Lincoln Park high school in 1948.
Howard Landis Freshman at Middle Tennessee State College 1947
Middle Tennessee State Normal School (MTSNS or MTNS) opened on September 11, 1911, with a two-year program for training teachers. It evolved into a four-year teachers’ college by 1925 with the power of granting the Bachelor of Science degree, and the institution’s name was changed for the first time to Middle Tennessee State Teachers College. The school was often abbreviated as “S.T.C.” In 1943, the General Assembly designated the institution a state college, changing its name for the second time to Middle Tennessee State College. This new status marked a sharp departure from the founding purpose and opened the way for expanding curricular offerings and programs. In 1965, the institution was advanced to university status, changing its name to Middle Tennessee State University. In October 2010, the Student Government Association at MTSU proposed that the university be renamed to the University of Middle Tennessee, though, at the time, approval from both the university administration and the Tennessee Board of Regents was required.
Mark Dunberger Born (Childhood Pics) 1946
According to our sources at Ancestry.com (currently worked by his first cousin 1x removed James) when Mark Joseph Dunberger was born on November 15, 1946, his father, Harry, was 31 and his mother, Louise, was 25. He had two children with Kathy Thomas (Ron and Renee) and one child with Pat (Natalie). He died in May 1991 in Trenton, Michigan, at the age of 44, and was buried in Flat Rock, Michigan.
Mark was an only child and since he was born approximately the same time as Margaret, the two grew up together and can be seen together in many pictures. Mark enjoyed sports very much and owned the Pitch, Hit, and Run baseball card shop on Northline road just off Fort Street. He had great season tickets when the Tigers won the 1984 world series and would often take pictures of the players and sell them at his shop.
Mark enjoyed camping and boating with his family and went on many camping trips including Proud Lake and Silver Lake in Michigan.
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Margaret Kleiber Born (Childhood Pics) 1946
According to our sources at Ancestry.com (currently worked by her nephew James) when Margaret Ann Kleiber was born on September 18, 1946, in Wyandotte, Michigan, her father, Charles, was 29, and her mother, Loretta, was 26. She married Richard Anthony Turowski on February 7, 1972, in Las Vegas, Nevada. She died on March 30, 2019, in Southgate, Michigan, at the age of 72, and was buried in Flat Rock, Michigan.
Margaret enjoyed taking trips with family and visited far too many places to mention here, but some of them included several visits to Disney World and Disney Land, Hawaii, Bahama’s, and California. Except for a brief period where she lived in California, Pegs place of residence was primarily in Michigan.
Since she was born so close to Marks birthday there are many pictures of the two of them growing up together.
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Ken Selvia Born 1946
Kenneth Ray Selvia was born in 1946, in Terre Haute, Indiana, the son of Emma and Mr. Selvia. He married Marie Elaine Wampol on August 10, 1968, in West Terre Haute, Indiana. He has several brothers.
Kenny served in the military during the Vietnam war and patrolled the Mekong Delta during that time, a stretch of wetlands that was a key factor during the war.
Kenny married Criss (James Aunt) in the early 80’s and they moved from Taylor Michigan to Lake George Michigan which is near Central Michigan University.
Kenny sings country music and has a great voice that could be heard on the Detroit airways in the 70’s and 80’s. Kenny is also a cousin of basketball legend Larry Bird.
Cousin Barbara Sokel Born 1944
When Barbara Sokel was born in 1944, her father, William, was 24, and her mother, Dorothy, was 25. She has one son and one daughter with Joseph Gedman. She lived in Westland, Michigan, in 1993 and moved to Redford, Michigan, sometime between 1993 and 1995. She currently lives in Northern Michigan.
James Dad remembers Barbara’s wedding in the mid sixties as he was the ring bearer, his sister Margaret was a bridesmaid, and cousin Sandy was the flower girl. It was one of the biggest events of the sixties and for sure a big event in James Dad’s childhood.
After the wedding Barbara and Joe lived on the other side of Telegraph from where James lives now and James Dad was born. For a long time, James Dad and Barbara worked not too far apart in an industrial park area of Farmington just off Ten Mile not to far from Grand River.
We usually would see Barbara at Grandma Grafs Christmas Eve party in the sixties and early seventies.
Tribute to Raymond Kleiber 1924 – 1943
Raymond died in World War 2 and is James Raymonds’ namesake. Unfortunately we do not have many pictures of Raymond so if anyone has anymore I would love to get them. Most of the stories about Raymond I heard from my Father. My dad used to say that Raymond had the height but not the talent to play professional ball, where as he had the talent but not the height. I have retyped his obituary and included the original clipping which is a little hard to read.
Private Kleiber, a paratrooper was killed in a plane crash on Leyte while enroute to the United States. The Plane was evacuating wounded men from the Pacific, and Kleiber was being returned home for further hospitalization after having suffered head injuries February 28, when he landed with the 503rd parachute infantry on Corregidor. He had been overseas 18 months and during that time had participated in several major battles from New Guinea to the Philippines.
Ray was born in Detroit. He was graduated from the Lincoln Park high school with the January 1943 class and worked for the Great Lakes Steel corporation, Ecorse, before entering the army. Besides his parents, he leaves two brothers, Sergeant Charles in Hawaii and Donald at home, and two sisters, Mrs. Dorothy Sokel and Virginia Kleiber, both living with their parents.
Loretta Working At Dupont 1943
During the war many of the wives took jobs that were normally done by men at that time, Grandma Loretta was no different and took a job working at Dupont in the electro-chemical department at their Michigan Plant.
Charles Thomas Sent To Pacific War 1942
After his wedding to Loretta, Charles was sent to the Pacific to fight world war 2. He spent a year at Christmas Island and a year in Hawaii. While these pictures are all black and white, you can still see the beauty of both islands and the interaction the soldiers had with the islanders. He was on a boat heading to what he believed was Japan when it was announced that the war was over and the boat was turning around. Within a week or two he was in Chicago getting discharged from nearly 5 years of service during World War 2, a war that cost him his younger brother Raymond and made his family a gold star family.
Charles Thomas Kleiber was very proud of his service, he kept his honorable discharge on his desk along with Raymonds Purple Heart.
