POW comes marching home again and Lynnfield gets right in step By Marvin Olasky Globe Correspondent LYNNFIELD “Lauren Lengyel is OK in our books,” a sign at the public librayr proclaimed yesterday afternoon as Lengyel, an Air Force captain and six-year captive in North Vietnam, was honored by his neighbors on the Lynnfield Common, a short distance away. Lengyel, who grew up in Lynnfield and lives at 6 Pontiac Rd., West Peabody, stood with his wife, four children, parents and grandmother and told the 2000 persons assembled there: “You’ve made me the happiest and proudest man in the world.” “My only regret,” he said, “is that there were others who were not as fortunate as I am.” The brief ceremony followed a two-mile parade of military and veterans units, Boy and Girl Scouts, bands and one sheep marching with the Lynnfield 4-H group. Clowns from the Spotlighters, a Lynnfield theatrical group, pranced in the streets because, as Spotlighter Jean Laier said, “we want a home town atmosphere. It’s not supposed to be a war parade.” Although rifles and bayonets were evident in the parade, many Scituate youth hit by car; condition fair SCITUATE An 18-year-old youth was admilied to South Shore Hospital, Weymouth, early yesterday after being struck by a car in North Scituate Village. Police said Peter Lynch of 17 Curtis av.,.
Stephen A. Rudloff, 76Feb. 19, 1945 – May 31, 2021
Stephen Anthony Rudloff, Commander, United States Navy (Retired) who survived 323 days in captivity as a POW during the Vietnam War, passed away peacefully following a long illness the evening of Memorial Day, May 31, 2021, at his home on Nelson Avenue surrounded by family. He was 76. Born February
