Comments on: North Star Two-Room Schoolhouse

By: LYNN COBLENTZ

LYNN COBLENTZ — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 20:29:43 +0000

Harvey was my uncle

By: LYNN COBLENTZ

LYNN COBLENTZ — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 20:29:01 +0000

Funny how names go:I have a daughter Jessie Coblentz and brother Bill…..
actually no surprise since we are all related! Lynn Coblentz…. i painted the inside of north star while working for Riverside schools and graduated
with SHIRLEY WEIL one of the aformentioned surnames!

By: William Coblentz

William Coblentz — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 18:04:04 +0000

My comment is mainly about Harvey Best, my grand-uncle. I didn’t know my Grandmother’s brother very well, but I remember that he was a man who always had a smile on his face – the kind of smile that was instantly contagious among family, but with just a hint of mischief that sent scoundrels away wondering “What’s he up to?” I always found that worthy of notice, and I wish that I had gotten to know him better.

By: Mary Lou (Coblentz) Vandevander

Mary Lou (Coblentz) Vandevander — Tue, 10 May 2011 13:32:09 +0000

In the picture with Bill and Jessie on the porch. The little girl standing in front of Bill is June Coblentz. She’s not mentioned in there at all. Mae and June are twins, which would explain the matching white dresses and bows in their hair.

By: Donna Wilson Craven

Donna Wilson Craven — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 02:16:14 +0000

About the two room North Star school house, my mother and father and sister Dorothy Wilson Anderson lived in that former school probably before any of the above mentioned people. My parents are Omar (Sam) Wilson and Ella May Drushel Wilson both gone now. Both North Stars were formerly part of the Wilson farm on Mercer Road–I think that’s what they call the road now. Weils lived there after the Wilsons sold it. I never lived in the two room North Star but lived on the Wilson farm until I was five, then we moved to Knox and my father started working for US Steel, that was around 1938.

By: Lawrence N. Coblentz

Lawrence N. Coblentz — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 04:27:31 +0000

Actually, my grandfather’s name was Willis John Dale Coblentz. But most people who knew him called him Bill.Dad (Larry C. Coblentz called him “Pop”. We kids , me, Barbara, Lynn, Tom, BJ, and MaryLou called him grandpa.

pictures 1,2,& 3 I suspect were taken either while Dad was serving in the Pacific from 1945 through 1947. or afterwards else he would be in the pictures, too. I don’t think he would miss visiting his Uncle Harvey and Aunt Vesta, because he always enjoyed visiting them and taking us kids with him; especially during the holidays.

Mr. Barnes, I suspect is my cousin Linda Best’s son.