The above class photo is in a stack of albums I have scanned.  I noticed some other photos of people in the picture so I thought I would do some research on the Adrian Class of 1944.  Adrian, Malheur, Oregon had a booming population of 177 on the 2010 Census.  The graduating class of 2008 had 21, not much smaller than this class.  As I researched the individuals in this post trying to find out more information, I kept humming to myself The Statler Brothers’ Class of ’57.

Dick Ashcraft (1926 – 2021)

Wilma Clyda “Billie” Brewer (1925 – 2003)(married Kieth Tallman)

Kenneth Buck (1926 – 2022)

Ethel M Case (1927 – 2009)

Bertha Cram (1926 – Alive?)

Ada Louise Curtis (1925 – 1970)

Theda Curtis (1925 – 2004)

David Gale (1925 – 1999)

Dwain Howard Hatch (1925 – 1985)

Donald Hite (1925 – 2011)

Robert J Jackson (1927 – Alive?)

Virginia Mae Jarvis (1926 – 2006)

Maurice O Judd (1925 – 1968)

Dudley L Kurtz (1927 – Alive?)

Ronald K Lane (1926 – 1996)

Peggy Langton (1927 – Alive?)

Carroll W Matthews (1926 – 1971).

John J Norris (1926 – Alive?)

Pauline Pettis (1928 – Alive?)

Clinton Reno (1926 – 2007)

Kenneth E Reno (1924 – 2004)

James Arnold Robb (1927 – 2011)

Helen Schweizer (1928 – 1994)

Maxine Smith (1927 – Alive?)

Lily M Steiner (1926 – Alive?)

Glen C Strickland (1925 – 1970)

Kieth E Tallman (1926 – Alive?)(Married Billie Brewer)

Dorothy Toomb (1927 – Alive?)

Jewell Wilson (1925 – 2007)

Wilma Doris Wilson (1926 – 2012)

Verla Mae Wolfe (? – Alive?)