WUPY 101.1 FM Ontonagon, Michigan

Oldest Living Graduates

Ontonagon High School
2010 Nonagenarian Honor Roll of Oldest Living Graduates*

Bertha Tahtinen**                          Class of 1930   Munising MI
Gaylord Hamm**                            Class of 1931  Covington MI
Myrtice Hayward Coe                       Class of 1931   Laura IL
Toine Mallonen                               Class of 1931   Traverse City MI
Catherine “Kate” Sands Corgan ***   Class of 1931   Alxandria VA
Osmi Saviniemi**                           Class of 1931   Russia 
Mary Gebeau Myhren**                   Class of 1932   Ontonagon
Frances M. Hales DeHut**               Class of 1932    Ishpeming MI
Helen Hayward Kalivoda                  Class of 1932   Ontonagon
Helen Ranta Phillips                        Class of 1932   Detroit MI
Lawrence A. Hamm**                    Class of 1933    Ontonagon
Nelma Kangas Kananen                  Class of 1933    Canton MI
Howard M. Koppari                        Class of 1933    Valrico FL
Capt Robert W. Labyak USN (Ret)   Class of 1933     Fort Worth TX
Eleanor A. Peltier Lembert             Class of 1933     Sublimity OR
Genevieve Gates Quinn                 Class of 1934     Marquette MI
Bertha Koppari Ramm                   Class of 1934     Illinois 
Grace I. Nehmer                           Class of 1934    Ontonagon
Dagne Salo**                               Class of 1934    Petrozavodsk, Karelia, Russia
Winifred Gilson Berth                    Class of 1935     Green Bay WI
John N. “Jack” Harris                    Class of 1935     Ontonagon
Arnold Hilden                              Class of 1935     Ontonagon
Elsie Hokkanen Koistinen              Class of 1935     Ontonagon
Kathleen Livingston Huard            Class of 1935     Glendale AZ
Merle K. MacNee Kaarle                Class of 1935      Mesa AZ
Grant Papineau                           Class of 1935      Beulah MI
Lillian Grace Valley Casseday        Class of 1935      Vernon Hills IL
Catherine Bertrand                      Class of 1936      Signal Mountain TN
Dorothy Cane Rogers Gorman**  Class of 1936      Brooksville FL
Sylvia Jackola Bembenek             Class of 1936      Brookfield WI
Sulo W. Juntunen                       Class of 1936      Monona WI
Lorayne Nygard Welfley              Class of 1936      Boynton Beach FL
Alyce Scott Yoder                      Class of 1936      Ontonagon
Helen Derrow Fischer                 Class of 1937      Marshfield WI
Milda Koistinen Nelson               Class of 1937      Green Bay WI
Fannie Mayra Hendrickson          Class of 1937      Ontonagon
Viola Metsala Jaaskelainen**      Class of 1937      Petrozavodsk, Karelia, Russia
Dorothy C. Wagner Montgomery Class of 1937      Lodi CA
Anna M. Yanasak Richmond       Class of 1937      Marquette MI
Edythe Hope Yoder Kellogg        Class of 1937     Seattle WA
Georgiana Carlin Neveu**          Class of 1938     De Pere WI
Kathryn Nipert McDonald           Class of 1938      Ontonagon
Sojana Oravec Hanson               Class of 1938     Reno NV
Lillian Strang Malitza                  Class of 1938     Windsor, Ontario, Canada
Walter Curski                            Class of 1939     Ontonagon
Norman C. Penegor                   Class of 1939     Pleasant Hill OR

 Victor F. Keefer, age 103
Teacher, Coach, High School Principal and Superintendent of Schools Ontonagon

     *As of 10 July 2010
  **Attended high school, but did not graduate
*** Oldest living graduate

 

All listed here would have attained the age of 90 years or more by Reunion Weekend

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