The year 1963 must have been a slow period for the celebration business, for in that year a representative of a pageant production enterprise came to Marion, with an idea based upon the premise that the county had a 150th anniversary coming up in 1964. Continue reading
Bundy Becomes Unit Assistant Superintendent
Marion Community Unit 2 School Board Wednesday night named A.C. (Cliff) Storme as Marion High School principal to succeed William H. Bundy, whom the board appointed as assistant unit superintendent. The changes are effective July 1. Continue reading
Howard & Casey Company was the oldest wholesale grocery firm in Southern Illinois between Centralia and Cairo. The Marion location was the first wholesale grocery distributor to be located in Williamson County. Continue reading
Albert Clifton “Cliff” Storme was born In Marion on Tuesday, Dec. 23, 1919, the son of Samuel Elbert Storme and Lona (Reeves) Storme. Continue reading
![Albert C. \"Cliff\" Storme 1919-2013](https://www.mihp.org/wp-content/gallery/ac-storme/storme-1949.jpg "Albert C. \\"Cliff\\" Storme 1919-2013")
![Albert C. \"Cliff\" Storme 1919-2013](https://www.mihp.org/wp-content/gallery/ac-storme/storme-1963.jpg "Albert C. \\"Cliff\\" Storme 1919-2013")
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At 9:22 a.m. Tuesday morning, November 25, 1947, the body of Pfc. Jewell Bethel Jr., who lost his life in the Battle of the Belgian Bulge, arrived in Marion for reburial. Bethel was the third of Marion’s World War II dead to be returned home. Continue reading