
MAY 23, 2015 LAST UPDATED: SATURDAY, MAY 23, 2015, 8:25 AM
BY DARIUS AMOS
STAFF WRITER |
THE RIDGEWOOD NEWS
Walter Francis Livingston III grew up with a Mayberry-type life in Ridgewood. He was president of the Student Council at Ridgewood High School, where he was also captain of the varsity football team and a distinguished member of the Class of 1939.
He later attended Franklin and Marshall College, graduating with his classmates in 1943.
Like many boys of his time, Livingston would join the United States Marine Corps Reserves, eventually earning the rank of lieutenant.
Called to active duty in January 1944, the 23-year-old, Brooklyn-born Livingston was killed in action some six months later in Guam; his body laid to rest in the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in Honolulu.
Waldwick resident Joanne Bonwick is too young to have ever met Livingston. She might not know any of his relatives either.
But one thing of which Bonwick is certain: She considers Livingston her family.
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