McCanns leave for Scotland on Monday (1958)

MCCANN, WATTS, HENDERSEN, RAE

Posted By: Ken Akers (email)
Date: 8/31/2008 at 18:44:57

Audubon County Journal (IA)
April 24, 1958
McCanns leave
for Scotland on Monday
(photo of family)
Mr. and Mrs. Bill McCann and
sons Billy, 6, Steve, 3, Jeff, 20
months and Tony seven months,
left Des Moines at noon on Mon-
day arriving in New York at 7
o'clock that evening. They board a
plane on Tuesday for Preswick,
Scotland, where Airman 1/c Bill
McCann will be stationed the nest
three years at an infirmary in the
medical department.
As there are no living quarters
provided, the McCanns will live
in a hotel until suitable quarters
can be found.
Mrs. McCann is the former
Geraldine Watts of Atlantic.
Mr. McCann went to high
school in Guthrie Center, served
four years in the navy, and has
just completed two years at the
infirmary in Colorado Springs,
Colorado. He expects to make the
air corps his career.
Mr. and Mrs. L. J. McCann of
Exira are his parents. He also has
three brothers and two sisters;
Connie, Mrs. James Henderson of
Waterloo; Ellen, Mrs. H. H. Rae of
Ellenwood, Kansas; Joe McCann
of Exira, J (missing text)
and Dean (missing text)
Springs.