Sue Palmiter (left) was reunited with her father's WWII dog tags last week and returned with them to Marshall RV Tuesday to see where 14-year employee Dean Blodgett (center) found them - in the basement above a wall.
Blodgett said he was building a set a shelves last week when first he spotted an envelope dated 1948 and then, the chains which happened to be attached to the dog tags bearing the name of George Palmiter. Dean gave them to his boss, Ken Jendryka who contacted Don Weberling, (right) service officer for American Legion Post 79 in Marshall. Don looked for the same name in the phone book and happened to reach George's daughter, Sue Wyatt. Her father, a WWII veteran, died in 1986. Her son, Jonathan, is currently serving his third tour of duty in Iraq and unbeknownst to him, the dog tags will be given to him when he comes home on leave in May. Though Sue, who has five older brothers and a sister, does not know how old the original structure is, she did reveal that her grandfather built the house that is now the offices of Jendryka's business.
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