Shenandoah County Library Archives

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Portrait of Lillian Ritenour Bowers as a young woman.

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Photograph of the four Lichliter sisters, all from Detrick in Fort Valley. Identified as (l to r): Georgie F. Shipe, Reva Mae Lichliter, Anna Lee Ritenour, and Thelma Shiflett. All are buried in Detrick Cemetery in Fort Valley.

Their parents were…

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Photograph of Laura Ritenour standing with one hand behind her back.

Laura was the daughter of Marcus (1851-1916) and Virginia Catherine (Clem) (1852-1919) Ritenour. She was from Fort Valley.

She married twice. First husband was James William…

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Photograph of John Tyler Ritenour wearing a suit and tie and seated on a bench.

John was the son of Milton Ritenour and his wife, Martha Jane (Burner) Ritenour. He married Natalie and had a brother, Roy, and three sisters, Ollie, Catherine, and…

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Photograph of Hunter Lee Ritenour who was then a resident of the Dry Run community in Fort Valley Virginia.

The name, "Wesley Ritenour", is written on the glass plate of this image. Wesley Ritenour was Hunter Ritenour's father.

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Heavily damaged portrait of Helen (Middleton) Ritenour. She was the daughter of George Lewis Middleton (1894-1961) and Ada Lee Strosnider (1891-1972), from Strasburg.

At just 19, she married Harold Lee Ritenour (1925-1994), a 19-year old U.S.…

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Photograph of Harvey Hoffman standing beside his wife, Alice (Crabill) Hoffman.

The couple married in May 1947 so this photograph was taken a couple of years after their wedding.

Harvey was the son of Walter Harvey and Martha Jane (Clem)…

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Blacksmith William Harrison "Harry" Ritenour, standing in the doorway of his shop in Maurertown. He is holding his young daughter, Mary Frances Ritenour Crabtree. His son, Wilmer Ritenour is standing beside him.

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Portrait of Harold Ritenour, in his U.S. Marine Corps uniform, seated beside his wife, Helen (Middleton) Ritenour.

Helen was the daughter of George Lewis Middleton (1894-1961) and Ada Lee Strosnider (1891-1972), from Strasburg.

At just 19, she…

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Portrait of Ford A. Wright and his wife, Mazie (Ritenour) Wright.

Mazie is wearing a pin on her dress that says, "Remember Pearl Harbor".

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Portrait of Fannie Myrtle Dinges Conner of Fort Valley and her daughter, Jeanette Conner Ritenour.

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Portrait of Eva Mae Boyer Ritenour who married Claude Ritenour of Fort Valley.

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This photograph, taken by local photographer Hugh Morrison of Woodstock, shows Eugene Carson Ritenour, US Army, and his family.

Eugene Carson Ritenour was born in Woodstock on May 7, 1927. After graduating from Woodstock High School, he joined…

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Eugene and Marjorie Ritenour, seated with their baby son, Eddie, on their laps.

Eugene is wearing a U.S. Army uniform.

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Photograph of Ernest Boyer in his graduation cap and gown.

Ernest was a farmer in Fort Valley. He married Nancy Campbell and had 3 daughters: Janet Stultz, Jean Bauserman, and Lila Williams.

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Portrait of Elizabeth Ritenour Coby as a young woman. There are aerial gunner wings visible on her lapel.

Elizabeth lived in the Fishers Hill community near Strasburg Virginia.

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Photograph of Edward H. McClanahan on the arm of a chair and holding a hat in one hand.

Edward was from Fort Valley. He married twice. His first wife was Vollie Blanche Ritenour (1891-1916) but she died in her mid-twenties.

His second wife…

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Portrait of Edwin Mckinley Tamkin and his wife, Marybell Frances (Ritenour) Tamkin when they were young.

Edwin was the son of William (1859-1954) and Mary Ella (Brill) (1866-1908) Tamkin. Marybell was the daughter of William Franklin and Ida…

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Portrait of Dorothy Ritenour wearing her hair short and three strands of faux pearls.

Dorothy never married and operated "Dorothy's Variety Store" in Woodstock.

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Portrait of Dorothy Ritenour wearing a brooch at her neck.

Dorothy never married and ran "Dorothy's Variety Store" in Woodstock.

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Clyde Maynard Ritenour, seated, with his wife, Isabel (Clem) Ritenour standing beside him.

The couple was from Fort Valley.

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Photograph of Charles Adam Ritenour, on the left, with his older brother, Clyde Wayne Ritenour, on the right. They were the children of Clyde Maynard (1906-1968) and Isabel (Clem) (1906-1988) Ritenour. They grew up in Fort Valley.

Charles Adam was…

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Photograph of Harry Ritenour's Blacksmith shop in Maurertown with several unidentified people, horses, and a buggy shown.

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Portrait of Anna Lee (Lichliter) Ritenour as a young woman.

Born in Fort Valley, she was the daughter of William Frederick and Esta Ethelma (Barr) Lichliter.

She married Charles Cecil Warren Ritenour in 1947.

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Portrait of Alese S. (Hoffman) Coffman as a young woman.

Alese was the daughter of Harry Cecil (1902-1964) and Golda E. (Ritenour) (1904-1927) Hoffman.

In the 1930 census, she lived with her parents and two brothers on Kibler Town Road in the…
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