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Portrait photograph of Dorothy Ritenour wearing a brooch at her neck.

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

Portrait photograph of Hunter Ritenour wearing his US Navy uniform.

Hunter was from Seven Fountains, served in the Navy during the Second World War, and was present at the D-Day landings.

The name, "Hunter Ritenour", is written on the glass…

Portrait photograph of Ida Alice (Ritenour) Ritenour as a young woman with glasses in 1904.

Ida was born in Maurertown Virginia. Her parents were Franklin P. and Emma Frances (Stump) Ritenour.

She married William Harrison Ritenour and they…

Heavily damaged portrait photograph 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…

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

All are buried in Detrick…

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.

Portrait photograph of Elizabeth (Ritenour) Bailey as a young woman. There are aerial gunner wings visible on her lapel.

Elizabeth lived in the Fishers Hill community near Strasburg Virginia. Her parents were Charles Clarence and Emma Elizabeth…

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)…

Photograph of two unidentified children.

The glass negative is labeled "Ritenour."

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…

Two separate portrait photographs of Robert "Bob" Ritenour Jr. wearing a graduation cap and gown at the time of his graduation from Woodstock High School in 1952.

Robert Lee “Bob” Ritenour Jr. was born February 8 1933 in Woodstock Virginia to…

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…

Photograph of: Bernice (Rhodes) Ritenour (left) with her son, Bernard, on her lap, Opal is seated on her father's lap. Roy M. Ritenour is on the far right.

The family was from Fort Valley.

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

Portrait photograph of Sadie (Good) Ritenour with short hair and a large pin on the front of her dress.

Sadie was born in Saumsville, the daughter of Charles Wesley and Laura Alice (Reedy) Good. She lived in Maurertown for much of her life.

She…

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

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

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

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…

Portrait photograph of Walter W. Paige.

Born in born in Tunbridge Wells, England, on June 29, 1881, he came to the Fort Valley with a hiking group from the Washington DC area in the 1920s. Three years later, in 1923, he bought property and a…

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

Portrait photograph of Lillian (Ritenour) Bowers as a young woman.

She was born in in Woodstock, a daughter of William Arthur and Maggie Mae (Walker) Ritenour.

Her husband was Ralph Daniel Bowers. Together, they raised two children, Bruce…

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…

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…

Photograph of two pages from the 1930/31 Register of the men housed in the Shenandoah County jail.

The pages include the date the person was jailed, his age, the charge, the sentence, fines, and the date of release.

Men listed include these…

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