{"id":48922,"date":"2015-08-06T20:42:12","date_gmt":"2015-08-07T00:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/miserybay.usanethosting.com\/wordpress\/?p=48922"},"modified":"2015-08-06T20:42:12","modified_gmt":"2015-08-07T00:42:12","slug":"back-289","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/back-289\/","title":{"rendered":"A Look Back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/miserybay.usanethosting.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/kentfieldth.jpg\" alt=\"kentfieldth\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-48926\" \/>Firemen promoted in 1973<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>by Barry Bauer<\/p>\n<p>In July, 1973 the promotion of 4 St Johns firemen was announced by fire dept. officials.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/miserybay.usanethosting.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/biddinger.jpg\" alt=\"biddinger\" width=\"214\" height=\"250\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-48927\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Promoted to the rank of captain was Gary Biddinger, 710 N Mead St. He resides with his wife Linda and their 2 children, Cheryl, age 9; and Alan, 11. Biddinger has been with the department for 9 years, He is owner\/operator of the St Johns Oil Co.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/miserybay.usanethosting.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/kentfield.jpg\" alt=\"kentfield\" width=\"214\" height=\"250\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-48928\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Terry Kentfield has also been a fireman 9 years, and was promoted to senior lieutenant. A painter-interior decorator, he and his wife Kristie have 3 children, Kim, 7; Kelly, 5; and Kristie, 2. They reside at 700 E State St.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/miserybay.usanethosting.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/bensinger.jpg\" alt=\"bensinger\" width=\"214\" height=\"250\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-48929\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Promoted to lieutenant was Lloyd Charles Bensinger. He and his wife, Janet, reside at 310 S Ottawa St. with their 4 children, Charles, 10; Bill, 8; Scott, 6; and Bryan, 4. An employee of Egan Ford, he has been a fireman approximately 9 years.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/miserybay.usanethosting.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/goff.jpg\" alt=\"goff\" width=\"214\" height=\"250\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-48930\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Also promoted was Tom Goff to the rank of lieutenant. A press operator at Federal Mogul, he has been with the department 8 years. He and his wife, Nancy, live at 1101S Oakland St with their 5 children, Lori, 16; Pat, 14; Craig, 11; Kathy, 10; and Larry, age 8.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Firemen promoted in 1973<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lookback"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48922\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}