March 6 Tales from the Grubby End column: Lafayette’s amazing Poling family

Family history includes minister who was among The Four Chaplains

  • Published: 3/5/2013 11:08:46 AM
Historical family —
Clark Poling and the three other chaplains that perished during the sinking of the USAT Dorchester in the North Atlantic in 1943 during World War II, were immortalized in a number of ways, including in a stamp issued by the United States Postal Service in 1948, chapels at three locations in the United States, a field at Fort Benning, Ga., and a stained glass depiction of the four.
  For this column I want to extend the boundaries of the “Grubby End” slightly beyond Newberg. The reason is that many people in the surrounding towns of Butteville, Dayton, Dundee, Lafayette, Sherwood and St.



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