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Remembering Marion & Frances Maupin Nardine
By CYRUS In the recently posted Jamestown Street article, author Martha Barnes Martin wrote: Remember the umbrella trees in the Maupin yard? Mrs. Maupins' sewing, managing the barbershop, and other enterprises to provide well for her family after Mr. Mont died. Jimmy in school, in service, Philip's birth, Marion's death at D-Day.The Marion to whom she referred was Marion Paul Nardine (sometimes spelled Nordine), a native of Iowa who had removed to Kentucky in September 1941 to seek employment at the Wolf Creek Dam project. By the following summer, Marion was living in Columbia and working at the Cardinal Grill. The August 26, 1942 issue of the Adair County News carried a brief announcement of his marriage to Frances Maupin, the daughter of Mrs. Martha (better known as Mattie) Maupin and the late Mont Maupin, of Columbia. Mr. Nardine and Miss Maupin were married Saturday night, August 22, by the Rev. Orville Baylor at the Christian parsonage in Lebanon, attended by Miss Euline Taylor and Mr. Lawrence Hill. The article also stated that the new Mrs. Nardine was a graduate of Columbia High School and of Lindsey Wilson College; that she was employed as a bookkeeper and clerk at the Paull Drug Co.; and that she was "one of the most attractive and competent young ladies of the community." The Nardines next made the News in May 1943. The Society column of May 5 edition, in the discreet fashion of the day, noted simply that Mrs. James Phelps and Miss Betty Barnett had honored Mrs. Marion Nordine with "a shower" on Tuesday evening. The guests included Misses Mary Evelyn Walker, Thera Mae Roberts, Vonnie Gaston, Allene Willis, Myrtle Jessie, Daisy Wethington, Dorothy Nell Pickett, Miller Dean Gilpin, Marguerite Harris, Billye Mullin, & Mary Frances Edwards; Mesdames S.T. Davis, Frank Callison, Garnett Young, John Burr, & Maurice Moran; & Mrs. Herman Barnett.The May 12 edition stated Marion P. Nordine was among the group to report "today" at Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana, for active duty, and the May 29 issue indicated he had been sent to Camp McQuaide, Calif., for basic training. In the July 7, 1943 issue, under the headline "New Arrival," appeared this two sentence article: Pvt. Marion Nordine and Mrs. Nordine announce the arrival of an 8 1/2 pound son, born on Monday, July 5, at the home of her mother, Mrs. Mont Maupin. Pvt. Maupin is stationed at Camp McQuaide, Calif.According to entries found in the September 29 & December 15 editions of the News, Pvt. Nordine spent a furlough with his wife and new son in late September and again in mid December, 1943. The latter report indicated he had recently been transferred from California to FortSheridan, in Ill. Sadly, Marion's trip home in December '43 would be his last Two very brief mentions were made of the Nardines in the spring of 1944. One, in late March, stated that Pvt. Nardine had landed safely overseas, and that he had been in New York "for some time" before being sent over. The other, in mid April, announced that Mrs. Nardine had resigned her position at the Paull Drug Co. to accept employment as bookkeeper at Lindsey Wilson Junior College. Almost exactly two months later, the June 21, 1944 edition of the News carried this grim headline and article: Marion Nardine Killed On D-Day(The article also stated that one of the sisters, Mrs. Kenneth Wadsworth, and husband, of Knoxville, Tenn., were visiting Frances & Phillip Wayne in Columbia when the message of Marion's death arrived.) The last mention found of Pfc. Nardine was in the July 12, 1944 News. It related that Frances had received a letter from Henry L. Stimson, Secretary of War, informing her that Marion had been posthumously awarded the Purple Heart. The article ended thus: Secretary Stimson stated that the letter was written at the request of the President and expressed sympathy over the loss of her husband, saying, 'When the medal which you will shortly receive, reaches you, I want you to know that with it goes my deepest sympathy, and the hope that time and victory of our cause will finally lighten the burden of your grief.The September 11, 1946 News mentioned the September 7 marriage of Mrs. Frances Nardine to Mr. Morgan Pepper in Mackville, and stated the couple would reside in Columbia. CYRUS Related story: Martha Barnes Martin's Memories of Jamestown Hill, September 19, 1998 This story was posted on 2005-08-21 16:51:30
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