Portfolio Category: Idlewood

d.1945 St. Philips ’35 CHS ’39.  He was wounded at Salerno, Italy and sent home to recover in Walter Reed Hospital, where he then developed cancer.  He came home to 26 Fountain Street in Crafton, where he died in July of 1945.  Almon delivered newspapers and didn’t like his nickname “Shorty”.

WWII Idlewood, St. Philip ‘39 Army Air Force accidentally after returning from Aleutians.  Jim’s sister, Bernie, still resides on Fountain Avenue in Crafton.