Shenandoah County Library Archives

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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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Portrait of Ralph Bowers wearing his U.S. Army uniform and seated beside his wife, Lillian (Ritenour) Bowers.

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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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Photograph of Walter Nathaniel Jett as a young man.

Walter was born in Fort Valley to William Clarence and Lucy (Ritenour) Jett. He married Beulah Esta Huffman, also from Fort Valley, in 1923, and they had 8 children together.

Walter was…

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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 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 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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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 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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Photograph of two unidentified children.

The glass negative is labeled "Ritenour."

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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 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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This Ritenour family portrait shows Bernice (Rhodes) Ritenour with her son, Bernard, on her lap, Opal is seated on her father's lap. Roy M. Ritenour is on the far right.

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Portrait of Martha Ritenour Thompson as a young woman with a flower in her hair.

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Photograph of Martha Lou Ritenour and her younger brother, Earl "Buddy" Ritenour.

Their parents were Earl Loudoun Ritenour, Sr. and Virgie (Miller) Ritenour.

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John William Ritenour, Jr., seated, with his second wife, Mattie (Woods) Ritenour, standing beside him.

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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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Portrait of Walter W. Paige. Born in Waterlick on June 29, 1881, he married Bessie Ritenour and they lived in a white farmhouse in the northern end of Fort Valley. He died on March 15, 1968 and was buried in Dry Run.

In the 1930's, he built four…

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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 Lillian Ritenour Bowers as a young woman.

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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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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 Mark Ritenour seated on a bench and wearing a suit and tie.

Mark worked in Tennessee for many years as the head of a lumber company.

He retired to Shenandoah County where, as of 2004, he lived on the corner of Route 11 and Hoover…

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The name, "Ritenour", is written on the glass plate of this image of a young man standing beside a bench.
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