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Call (906) 932-4449 Ironwood, MI Go Pack Go Packers’ Jones scores 3 TDs in Redsautosales.com 24-16 win over Carolina SPORTS • 9 DAILY GLOBE Monday, November 11, 2019 Snow showers likely yourdailyglobe.com | High: 14 | Low: 8 | Details, page 2 VETERANS DAY Historian finds Kellet name in American Cemetery By KIM E. STROM [email protected] IRONWOOD – The burial of World War II prisoner of war Walter J. Kellett’s in an Ironwood cemetery Oct. 5 caught Steve Kwiecinski’s eye. An historian living in Virginia, Minn., Kwiecinski didn’t know Kellett, but he knew his story well. Kellett was forced to walk what’s known as the Bataan Death March which was “65 miles of hell on Earth,” Kwiecins- ki told the Daily Globe. Kwiecinski has been leading a tour of the march every year since 2007. After reading of Kel- lett’s funeral, Kwiecinski set out to find Kellett’s name on the Wall of the Missing in Manila, the cap- ital of the Philippines. Kellett, an Ironwood native, received a proper burial in River- side Cemetery with full military THE MANILA honors on Oct. 5. His remains American Ceme- were unidentified until July when tery and Memorial DNA testing proved his identity. in the Philippines, Not many lived to tell of what seen above, is 152 being a prisoner of war – making acres and holds a that ultimate sacrifice, was like. total of 17,206 Kwiecinski’s father, Walter graves. It has the Kwiecinski of Duluth, Minn., was largest number of also a prisoner of war, and graves of any Kwiecinski grew up listening to cemetery for U.S. his father’s stories of the horrors personnel killed of being a prisoner of war of the during World War Imperial Japanese Army. The tour II. At left is grave of the march starts in Mariveles stone of an unkn- and ends at Camp O’Donnell, won soldier. Steve where approximately 50,000 Kwiecinski of Vir- were temporarily housed under ginia, Minn. sub- the worst possible conditions, mitted the photos. according to Kwiecinski. Hun- dreds per day died at first, until Submitted photo sanitation measures were insti- tuted, he said. template,” Kwiecinski said, “Kel- eventually loaded onto “hell- at sea. Only nine survived,” he trition or hypothermia were as The American prisoners were lett may have been considered by ships,” unmarked Japanese trans- said. emaciated as the Jews who sur- then relocated to Camp Cabanat- fellow POW’s as one of the lucky port vessels, some of which were “Most of the transported pris- vived Nazi prison camps,” said uan in Central Luzon, he said. ones. After his death in 1942, the sunk by unknowing American oners faced slave labor in Kwiecinski. “Some POW’s were Diseases there included malaria, surviving prisoners endured over submarines and airplanes. Japanese mines and docks. beriberi, and dysentery. three more years of inhumane Almost all 1,800 aboard one such Rations were so short that those “As awful as it may be to con- treatment. Most of them were ship, the Arisan Maru, perished who didn’t die of illness, malnu- KELLET — page 5 ADJ students help ring Salvation Army Bell over weekend Finnish By P.J. GLISSON entering the Walmart store, off U.S. 2. candy to both kids and parents. locals talk [email protected] In conjunction with the collection was a Dusty Boggs of Ironwood took over for IRONWOOD – Despite chilly tempera- toy drive done in cooperation with Walmart. them, as part of an ongoing chain of Salva- history at tures on Saturday, students of A.D. Johnston Shoppers were encouraged to buy a toy to tion Army volunteers. Junior and Senior High School were out in donate to a local child in need. The Salvation Army division of Wiscon- force, collecting donations for the Salvation Jamie Stiffarm, who teaches peer-to-peer sin and Upper Michigan is in Wauwatosa, Little Finland Army of Gogebic and Iron counties. instruction at the school, was also present to Wis. It declares itself home to 26 worship By KIM E. STROM Lainey Kulak and MacKenzie Switzer, work with the two girls, who spent the [email protected] both juniors at ADJ, were ready with warm morning and early afternoon collecting HURLEY – Three people told jackets and ready smiles to greet shoppers donations and toys while also handing out BELL — page 7 their stories Saturday at Little Finland of growing up as Finnish descendents in the Upper Penin- sula. The event was part of the WINTER ARRIVES Ironwood Area Historical Soci- ety’s Oral History Project and the stories were recorded by histori- an Bill Jamerson of Ironwood. Roger Halquist of Bruce Crossing had many stories to share of growing up in the 1950’s and 60’s and of the dangerous duties that working in the area iron ore mines called for. Around 1973, he was powder- ing mine headings under ground at the White Pine mine in White Pine, Mich. with explosives when a large chunk of rock broke off. A smaller chuck came with it hit- ting Halquist on the head and knocking him out cold, he said. It was lucky for him because that smaller chunk knocked him out of the way of a much larger piece that fell to the side of him. There were sticks of dynamite under- Jason Juno/Daily Globe neath it as well. “I was so scared,” O KUN de Kun Falls near Bruce Crossing continues to flow on an early winter Friday afternoon. It’ll look even more like winter local- ly this week as winter storm warnings are in effect for Iron and Gogebic counties with a winter weather advisory for Ontonagon County. Six to 14 inches of lake effect snow is possible. FINLAND — page 5 TODAY INDEX Snow showers likely — Details, page 2 Classifieds . .12-13 75 cents Comics . .11 Sunday Today’s records Snowfall Community . .3 Vol. 100, No. 299 High 26 High 65 (1930) 48 hours to 7 a.m. Education . .6 Low 13 Low -7 (1979) Sunday 3 in. Snow depth 3.4 in. Obituaries . .2, 7 Year ago today Precipitation Season total 3 in. Opinion . .4 High 20 48 hours to 7 a.m. Last year 20.1 in. Sports . .9-10 Low 14 Sunday .19 in. l 2 MONDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 2019 AREA THE DAILY GLOBE • YOURDAILYGLOBE.COM FIVE-DAY FORECASTFOORECAST FOR IRONWOODIRRONWOOD Obituaries TODAY SUNDAYY MONDAY TUESDAYTUESSDAY WEDNESDAY Rev. Louis P. Bracket WAKEFIELD, Mich. – The Rev. dear nieces and Louis P. Bracket, the oldest priest in nephews; many cher- Snow Few Snoww Few Snow Few SnowS Few Snow Showers the Diocese of Marquette, 98, formerly ished great-nieces Showerss Showers ShowersShowwers Showers Likely of 307 Eddy St., in Wakefield, passed and great-nephews; away peacefully early Thursday morn- and several special 35° 21° 24° 8°8 14° 7° 16° 9° 21° 15° ing, Nov. 7, 2019, at Bishop Noa Home cousins. Winds: Winds: Winds: Winds:Winnds: Winds: for Senior Citizens in Escanaba. He was prede- 6-96-9 mphmph WSWWSW 11-1611-16 mphmph NWNW 10-1410-14 mphmph NWNW 9 mmphph WWSWSW 8-148-14 mphmph SSWSSW He was born on June 10, 1921, in ceased by his par- Ontonagon LOCALL OUTLOOK Wakefield, a son of Anton Louis and ents; his siblings, Br. 36/30 Anna Theresa (Frigo) Bracket. A love Albert Bracket, Todayy we will see cloudy skies with of the outdoors filled his early life with Rev. Louis P. OCSO and Rita Bergland an 8080%0% chance of snow showers, Bracket 33/25 high ttemperature of 35°, humidity of hunting, both big and small game, and 1921 — 2019 (Howard) Meier; his Wakefield Ironwood 65%. West southwest wind 6 to 9 fishing. brother-in-law, John Saxon 32/24 35/21 Marenisco mph. Snow accumulation of less than Fr. Bracket graduated from Wake- J. Coolidge; his sis- 37/24 one ininchnch possible. Bessemer 33/25 field High School in 1939, then went ter-in-law, Mary Upson Hurley 32/24 Watersmeet to St. Lawrence Seminary in Mt. Cal- Bracket; a niece, 35/21 SUNS AND MOON 35/21 33/25 vary, Wis., for three years and finished Marcy Bracket; and Mercer his seminary education at St. Paul a great-nephew, 35/21 Veteran Manitowish Seminary in St. Paul, Minn. Anthony Bracket. 33/24 SunriseSunri . ...............................................................................se .........................................................................6:53 a.m. Minocqua SunsetSunse . ...............................................................................et...........................................................................4:34 p.m. He was ordained by Bishop Thomas There will be a 34/26 MoonriseMoon . ...............................................................................nrise .......................................................................3:47 p.m. A. Welch on May 31, 1947, in St. Paul. Rite of Reception of the body by the MoonsetMoon . ...............................................................................nset........................................................................3:33 a.m. Fr. Bracket celebrated his first Mass on Rev. Dominic Agyapong, pastor, at June 1, 1947, at Immaculate Concep- Immaculate Conception Church, 407 ALMANAC REGIONALREGIONAL WEATHER NATIONALNAATIONAL WEATHER tion Church in Wakefield. Ascherman St., in Wakefield, on Yesterday Today Sun. Today Sun. His first assignment was at Immac- Thursday, Nov. 14, at 3 p.m. CST. Fr. High ......................... temperature.....25 Ashlandd 38/30 rs 36/24 sh ChicagoChicaago 44/35 pc 41/28 mc ulate Conception Parish in Iron Moun- Bracket will lie in state at the church Low ......................... temperature ......11 Duluth 35/22ss 24/9 mc DallasDallas 66/49 s 71/52 pc tain, a mainly Italian parish. He from 4 to 6 p.m., where a rosary will Precipitation ......................... ....... 0.00" Eau ClaireClaaire 42/35 mc 43/26 cl KansasKansaas City 64/43 s 53/28 pc .19” EscanabaEscanabba 37/29ss 33/19 ss Los AngelesA 88/60 s 82/59 s became an assistant at St.