By John Montesano The Fox Valley Veterans Breakfast Club Herschel Luckinbill Veterans of the Month for August 2022 are the many veterans serving in military service organizations; the veterans who continued their service as civilians in support of veterans, their families, and the community. The main organizations are: American Legion...
By John Montesano The Fox Valley Veterans Breakfast Club named Tom Warner the July Herschel Luckinbill Veteran of the Month. Tom was born July 7, 1947, in Chicago. At age 10, the family moved to Lockport in Will County, where his father, Richard, was a State Trooper. Tom attended Joliet...
By John Montesano The Fox Valley Veterans Breakfast Club has named Ken Drennen the June 2022 Herschel Luckinbill Veteran of the Month. Ken was born November 12, 1946 in Aurora, Ill.. He attended East Aurora High School from which he was graduated June 6, 1964. In high school, he played...
By John Montesano The Fox Valley Veterans Breakfast Club named Donald W. Gatske the May 2022 Herschel Luckinbill Veteran of the Month. Don was born June 25, 1946 and grew up in Aurora. He played in Boys Baseball of Aurora and Aurora Pony League baseball. He was a sousaphone player...
By John Montesano The April 2022 Fox Valley Veterans Breakfast Club Herschel Luckinbill Veteran of the Month is Ted Clinnin. Ted was born January 21, 1947 and grew up in Summit, a southwest suburb of Chicago. At Argo High School, he participated in football, cross country, swimming, and tennis. After...
By John Montesano The Fox Valley Veterans Breakfast Club has named John Oleson the March 2022 Herschel Luckinbill Veteran of the Month recipient. John Oleson was born September 12, 1944, in Aurora, Ill.. In 1948, when his mother died, his father sent John and his older brother to Mooseheart to...
By John Montesano The Fox Valley Veterans Breakfast Club Herschel Luckinbill Veteran of the Month for January is Tom Banning. Tom, born March 10, 1945, grew up in St. Clair, Mich.. He lived just a few blocks from downtown and the St. Clair River. He played high school basketball, football,...
By John Montesano The Fox Valley Veterans Breakfast Club has named Gary Hanson the December 2021 Herschel Luckinbill Veteran of the Month. Gary was born December 19, 1939 in Ottawa and grew up on different farms in the Somonauk and Sandwich area until 1954 when his father sold the farm...
By John Montesano The Fox Valley Veterans Breakfast Club has named Maurie Misner the November 2021 Herschel Luckinbill Veteran of the Month. Maurie was born in Blythe, Calif. March 28, 1944. Later in the year, Maurie’s mom brought him to Aurora. He was graduated from East Aurora High School in...
By John Montesano The Fox Valley Breakfast Club Herschel Luckinbill Veteran of the Month for October 2021 is Richard Bee. Rich was born October 15, 1947 in Aurora. His father died of cancer in 1962. Being one of six, he quit school to work and help pay the bills. He...
By John Montesano The Fox Valley Veterans Breakfast Club Veteran of the Month henceforth will be named the Herschel Luckinbill Veteran of the Month, in memory of the man who was president of the Fox Valley Breakfast Club for 12 years and who was a continual friend and advocate for...
By John Montesano The Fox Valley Veterans Breakfast Club’s July 2021 Veteran of the Month is Paul Issak. He was born October 17, 1940 in Chicago, was graduated from Sullivan High School in 1958, and briefly attended Wright Junior College in Chicago. He joined the Air Force January 1, 1960....
By John Montesano The Fox Valley Veterans Breakfast Club named Danny Gutierrez May 2021 Veteran of the Month. He was born in Aurora, May 11, 1949, grew up on the East Side, and was graduated from Roncalli High School in 1967. At age six, Danny started playing guitar and formed...
By John Montesano The Fox Valley Veterans Breakfast Club named Joe West the April 2021 Veteran of the Month. Joe West was born September 13, 1955 in Aurora and grew up on the East Side of town. He had a good childhood; played sports and did some part-time work at...
By John Montesano The Fox Valley Veterans Breakfast Club has named Rosalio “Charlie” Aguirre, the March Veteran of the Month. Sadly, this honor is being conferred posthumously because Charlie passed February 24. Charlie was born June 10, 1981 in Aurora; one of a family of eight children. The oldest of...
By John Montesano The Fox Valley Veterans Breakfast Club has named William “Bill” Lake the February Veteran of the Month. Bill was born March 2, 1943 in Aurora. By the time he was age 14, the family had lived in Aurora, and farms in Sandwich and Plano. He had jobs...
By John Montesano The Fox Valley Veterans Breakfast Club has named David Moore the January Veteran of the Month. David Moore was born January 20, 1944 in Marion, Ala. where he grew up. After graduation from Lincoln High School in 1963, he was drafted into the Army. He was trained...
By John Montesano The Fox Valley Veterans Breakfast Club named Thomas Butler the December Veteran of the Month. The son of Jim Butler, one of our previous veterans of the month and Aurora resident, Tom was born December 17, 1964 in Philadelphia, Pa.. He grew up in Chicago and Carpentersville....
By John Montesano The Fox Valley Veterans Breakfast Club named Carlos Aguirre the November Veteran of Month. Carlos was born November 7, 1978 in Aurora, where he lived until 1996 when he was graduated from West Aurora High School. Because of being one of six children, with many cousins, family...
By John Montesano The Fox Valley Veterans Breakfast Club named Thomas Laue October 2020 Veteran of the Month. Born June 24, 1970, Tom Laue grew up on a farm in Humboldt, S.D.. In June 1988, he joined the South Dakota Army National Guard (ARNG) in Sioux Falls while in high...
