Evening star., 1946-02-20
District Veterans Plan
To Meet War Wives
Aboard Queen Mary

AUOdIu uueen WdIy
A number of British war wives
bound for the Washington area are
to sail aboard the liner Queen Mary
from England on Sunday and are
due in New York on March 2
Aboard will be 1896 wives and
children of American servicemen
the Associated Press reported today
Two former members OF the
WAAF are among the wives coming
to this area.
One is Mrs. Harry w. Furr, jr..
who is coming to 1417 Massa-
cEusetts avenue Sc, with her g.
mcnth-old daughter, Jean, to Join
her husband, %, who is attending
Central High School. They met
while he was driving down a road
in Maidstone, Kent, England, in a
jeep. Mr.. Fur, who is living with
his parents at the Massachusetts
avenue address, plans to study
medicine. His wife and baby will
live with them there.
haSnt seen lnfant Son.
The other former WAAF is Mrs.
Charles G. Griffith, who is bringing
her 5-month-old son, Charles Rob-
ert, whom her husband has never
seen, to 70 v street NV. He is a
painter with the Government. Both
he and his wife served four years in
uniform. She is from Thornton,
Fife, Scotland. Mr.. Grifith resides
with his aunt, Mrs. Nell Obenhaus,
but he plans to make his permanent
home in Vallejo, Calf. He was in
the AAF.
Meredith Helm, 81, of Gill Forty
fourth avenue, Riverdale, Md, a
former infantry first lieutenant now
with International News Service, is
looking forward to greeting his, wife
Catherine, 20, and their year-old
daughter Caroline.
Jack H. Hodges, 1921 Fourth street
north. Arlington, former lieutenant
pilot in the 9Th Air Force, hopes to
see soon his wife, Miriam Green
Hodges, 20, of Nottingham, England.
They were married May 8, 1945,
the day after We day. Mr.. Hodges
has furnished apartment at 4367
North Pershing drive, Arlington,
and plans a honeymoon at Atlantic
City.
Served in Two Campaigns.
Mr.. Hodges was a pilot for the
1st Allied Airborne Army and was
! in the Rhine and Holland CAM
paigns. He plans to meet his wife
in New York.
Pvt. Hugh O'Neill. %, District fire.
man, who lives with his parents at
4l00 Bladensburg road, Cottage City,
Md, is looking forward to greet
! ing his wife, Gwendoline, %, and
daughter, Dianne, % months. He
served as staff sergeant with the
29th Division and was in the Nor
mandy invasion. His wife Is from
London, but they met in Bristol.
Randolph Colvin, 1903 Twenty
sixth street NE, bus driver for the
Capital Transit Co., is awaiting the
arrival of his war wife, Eva, 23, and
their 10-month-old son, Terence.
Mr.. Colvin was born here and served
in the 387th Bombardment Group
overseas. He lives with his uncle,
Grover G. Clampitt at the Twenty
sixth street address. The couple
was married on Easter Satur-
day, 1914.
May Miss Arrival.
Two daughters, Diana, 10 months,
and Mary, % months, are coming
with their mother, Mrs. Joan Brad
ley, "a, to join their father and hus-
band, Edward F. Bradley, jr., 26, of
5653 North Nineteenth street, Ar
lington. He is a telephone lineman.
but fears that he may not get time
of to 60 up to New York to meet
his family. He was a corporal in
the 9th Air Force and was nearly
three years in England. They will
live with his parents at the Arling-
ton address.
John H. Chynoweth, a former
Washingtonian who now works for
an oil firm in Galveston, Tex, plans
to bring his war wife, Aimee, and
7-month-old son, John G., to visit
his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. H. e.
Chynoweth, 1854 Euclid street NV,
upon their arrival from England.
Everard P. Tice, 30, 1OS Leighton
avenue, Silver Spring, aircraft me-
chanic at Boiling Field, expects his
wife, Amy. 25, former school teacher !
and their daughter, Sheena, n
months, to sail from England on
the liner Argentina on Friday. He
was former technical sergeant In
the Army Air Forces.