Hillsboro Area Veterans Remembered And You Can Add Yours To The List

Editors Note:  Memorial Day is reserved to honor those who have died in service to our Country.  Veterans Day has more of a focus on the living who serve or have served, but us also a time to remember the fallen.  We looked to the VA for the definition of the two days.  Here is what they said:

Many people confuse Memorial Day and Veterans Day. Memorial Day is a day for remembering and honoring military personnel who died in the service of their country, particularly those who died in battle or as a result of wounds sustained in battle. While those who died are also remembered, Veterans Day is the day set aside to thank and honor ALL those who served honorably in the military – in wartime or peacetime. In fact, Veterans Day is largely intended to thank LIVING veterans for their service, to acknowledge that their contributions to our national security are appreciated, and to underscore the fact that all those who served – not only those who died – have sacrificed and done their duty.

We wish to honor all our active-duty service men and women today, all those alive who served, and all those who passed. Today, we celebrate all of them. Please submit your active-duty, living service men and women and those who have passed in our comments section below. To all Veterans, we owe a debt of gratitude that can never be fully repaid. We thank all who serve, or have served, in any capacity at any time.  We also humbly thank their families.

Today is the day to remember, honor, and thank all of the brave men and women who served our country and the living who have served, and those who still do.  What would you be without them?  We would not be the country we are today.  In the wake of the most divisive election in year decades, we must remember how fortunate we are.  It has not been since the Civil War that we have had open warfare on our soil here in the United States.  Not that many countries can say that.   We take that for granted.

Things could have been very different if not for the men and women of our country and our community.  So, as a historian here in Hillsboro and a person who wants to remind us locally of our past, this is my attempt to have us all pause and reflect.  Some of those who were required to leave this valley and serve us in war are remembered below.  If you have someone to add to the list, we ask that you provide their name and information in the comments section below.  Everyone in the service of our country is to be remembered today!

Here are a few Veterans we can thank and remember today. This list will grow as submissions come in. Post in the comments below or email us at hillsboroherald@gmail.com .

Stephen E Hibbs – Still lives in Hillsboro, Oregon, and is a well-loved retired Teacher!

Thank you, Mr Hibbs!

Remembering John R, Dick Granat – post info by Ginny Mapes of Helvetia-

Remembering Martin J Ryan of Hillsboro, Post by Bob Kehoe

Remembering Daniel Lester Hart – Submitted by the Editor

More Local Tributes Will be added here all week – Add yours here.

The following information about WW II Veterans was pulled from the new searchable archives of the great Hillsboro Argus. The Argus has been locked away on microfiche for decades, and the Hillsboro Historical Society decided it was time to unleash that history and bring it to the world online in a readable and searchable format.  If you can help with this worthy project with an online donation, please do so.

https://www.gofundme.com/f/unleash-the-history-hillsboro-argus-online-project

We have the following Veterans to honor from that database, now scanned through 1944.

The Hillsboro Herald #Salutes all of them!

Other names submitted for Remembrance:

• From Community Member Chuck Straughan:  Doug Straughan, Jerry Straughan, Bill Ziegler, John Caughlan, Jim Smith
• From Community Member Davies:  Leon S Davis, US Army WW1(France)+ American Red Cross WW2, S. Howard Davis, US Marine Corps ( Pacific Theatre) WW2,  R. H. Davis, US Marine Corps, Vietnam
• From Community Member Paula L Tucker- Larry Trussell KIA 02/01/1969. Vietnam. RIP
• From Community Member Darcie McGinnis Trask –  Neal, Malcolm, Duncan, Donald Mc Innis, Brothers who served in the US Army
• From Community Member Becky Raybern –  Burton & Mary Hendershott, both served in the Air Force during the Korean war. My father-in-law, Don Rabern, served in the Army during WWII. My husband, Mark Rabern, joined the US Navy in 1973, right when the Vietnam war was supposedly winding down. 
• From Community Members Glioria Rodas– Captain Judge Rodolf Crandall, 5th Ohio Inf, USAU CIvil war. Buried in Oddfellows, Pioneer Cem. Hillsboro. Lt. A.M Collins, 1st WI Artillery USAU civil war. Buried in Oddfellows, Pioneer Cem, Hillsboro
• From Community Member Charolyn Concepcion – My husband John Concepcion enlisted during the Vietnam war (seeing he was coming up for draft and wanting to chose the Air Force). He then continued serving a 24 year career. And I am grateful I have medical insurance because of this LIVING
• From Comunity Member Katie Swickard – My brother Kerry Johnson, 1949-2013, served in Vietnam and later died of Pancreatic cancer.
• From Community Member Kelly Vanderschure Lowry – Ronald J. Vanderschuere (1943-2023) served in the Air Force from 1961-1965 as an air mechanic. 8 years ago we were at the aerospace museum at Hill Air Force Base in Utah and he was wearing his Air Force Veteran ball cap. As we toured the museum he found a plane that he had been responsible for maintaining. He was so proud of his service as are we.
• From Community Member Diane Renee– My Father Richard R Christensen. CPL US Marine Corps-KOREA. Hillsboro Fire Chief until 1969.
• From Community Member Joanne Ostlund – Steven A. Maslen, US Air Force, buried in National Cemetery in Forsyth, Montana.