by alan | Jun 6, 2011 | Special Tributes
By MaureenRutherford Nieland “Mo” It all started with 1022 Park Place, Coronado, California. This is where my grandparents, Alfred and Mary EllenVingoe, came from England in the 1920s to settle in Coronado. As my mom’s siblings matured, they spread themselves...
by alan | Jun 6, 2011 | Special Tributes
By Commander Don Hubbard, USN (Retired) This old house was built in 1894 for Mr. Benjamin L. Muir. Muir was born in Memphis, Missouri in 1859 and came to San Diego in 1886. This was the year of the great auction sale of Coronado lots. He entered the real estate...
by alan | Jun 6, 2011 | Special Tributes
DR. MUSHOVIC & NAVAL LIFE By Polly Coleman I remember being ten and holding my baby brother while Dr. Mushovic gave him his first shots, and my Mother and I both getting a shot in the buttock and it hurt! We went to him instead of base doctors as it was so much...
by alan | Jun 6, 2011 | Special Tributes
BY JUDY (JENNE) MILLER Dr. James Mushovic was so much more to me than our family doctor; over the many years I knew him, he was my friend. He saw me through my childhood, my teenage years, and as a young wife and mother. He gave me the benefit of his wisdom and his...
by alan | Jun 6, 2011 | Special Tributes
BY JUDE (JENNE) MILLER I used to draw and paint a lot when I was a teenager and young mother. Many of my pastels, watercolors, and drawings covered the walls in my kids’ rooms, along with my handmade rugs, curtains, and stuffed toys. But in the turmoil that became my...
by alan | Jun 6, 2011 | Special Tributes
By JUDE (JENNE) MILLER On September 23, 1946, I became the third little girl to be born to Frank L. and Dorothy F. Jenne. That same year, my father was commissioned LT.JG. My dad literally left the farm to join the Navy in 1932. He started as a Seaman and retired as a...
