Gene Anway
Photo taken: abt. 1943
Photo found: Appalachian Antiques - Berkeley Springs, WV.
Status: looking for family
Eugene Anway, maybe known as Gene to some, was born in Minnesota in 1924 to Arthur Anway and Elva Middelstadt. By 1930, Eugene, his parents, his older brother Harlin and his younger sister Lois were living in Lead, South Dakota - yep, the same town as Sterling Johnson Raymond Von Wald, Ray Dillavou. and Roy Aspen , all WWII US Navymen whose photos were mysteriously found together in a little antique shop in Berkeley Springs, West Virginia.
Gene was, by seemingly all accounts, a great kid. In his early school days, he was part of an accordion band, and was a member of the Boy Scouts, alongside none other than Sterling Johnson - they are both listed as having won merit badges in 1938!
In high school Gene was a member of the Junior Adelphia Club (a club of young people in Lead and Deadwood, SD). After high school, he attended the Great Lakes Naval Training Station where he was one of two students selected to attend medical school there in 1942.
Gene eventually joined the US Navy as a pharmacist's mate, and upon returning to South Dakota after the war he enrolled at the University of South Dakota. In 1950 he left the Great Plains to attend medical school at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada, and a year later was recalled to the Navy to serve in the Korean War.
Photo found: Appalachian Antiques - Berkeley Springs, WV.
Status: looking for family
Eugene Anway, maybe known as Gene to some, was born in Minnesota in 1924 to Arthur Anway and Elva Middelstadt. By 1930, Eugene, his parents, his older brother Harlin and his younger sister Lois were living in Lead, South Dakota - yep, the same town as Sterling Johnson Raymond Von Wald, Ray Dillavou. and Roy Aspen , all WWII US Navymen whose photos were mysteriously found together in a little antique shop in Berkeley Springs, West Virginia.
Gene was, by seemingly all accounts, a great kid. In his early school days, he was part of an accordion band, and was a member of the Boy Scouts, alongside none other than Sterling Johnson - they are both listed as having won merit badges in 1938!
In high school Gene was a member of the Junior Adelphia Club (a club of young people in Lead and Deadwood, SD). After high school, he attended the Great Lakes Naval Training Station where he was one of two students selected to attend medical school there in 1942.
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| Lead Daily Call, 30 September 1942 |
In 1961, Gene was stationed in Korea with the US Air Force, working as a civilian education officer, when word got home to South Dakota that he had suffered an unexpected and fatal heart attack.
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| Lead Daily Call, 6 March 1961 |
Gene left no wife or children.
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