Jane White, proprietor of Mudflats Bar & Grill in Galena, Ohio, found this Sunday school diploma in an upstairs room above the bar. We have no idea how it got there as neither Carole nor I have ever been to Mudflats. Our current guess is that someone bought the diploma, probably for the old wooden frame with its original glass, at the auction my brother held before we sold my mother’s house in Westerville, Ohio, in 2003. The diploma was awarded to me in 1949 when I was five years old by the Lewisville (Ohio) Methodist Church. I attended Sunday school there when we visited my grandparents who lived in Lewisville. Initially, I thought the diploma had no special meaning for me, but after receiving it by mail from Ms. White I was surprised and pleased to discover that one of the signers was my grandfather, F. R. Billman (second signature) who was a deacon at the church Now the challenge is finding an appropriate place to hang it. A big “Thank you” to Ms. White for locating and contacting me and for so carefully packaging the wooden frame with its old pane of glass to ensure that it arrived undamaged.
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