Doris Lloyd Love Story

  Doris Jean Hewitt was the fourth child born to Fanny Katherine Freitag and Cecil Ray Hewitt of the eight children three died at birth, leaving Doris the second of five sisters. She was born in the county of Preble located in the south western corner of the state of Ohio in the United States of America on 03 October 1923.   She married Lloyd Hapner in Washington D.C. during World War II on Thanksgiving Day, Early that morning in the southwest Pacific Ocean American light naval forces sank four Japanese destroyers and damaged. A fifth during the first hours of naval action fought for the first time in waters so close to the enemy's naval and air fortresses of Rabaul. A sixth destroyer alone escaped. On the other end of the war in Germany a second round of air raids attack the Germany capital of Berlin. Berlin was virtually paralyzed and isolate inferno Wednesday night, with large sections of its center bombed to flaming rubble by the second successive blockbusting night attack by British four-engine bombers. As this was taking placing thousands of soldiers were flooding railroad terminals, the streets and hotels in New York, Washington and Philadelphia in route to Europe. These large cities where filled with excitement and activities. Doris return to Eaton as Lloyd went to war. 

       Lloyd was the son of Goldie and Earl Hapner both residence of Preble county, Ohio.  On November 17th 1 1946 she gave birth to a son Stephen.  A day and a year later she gave birth to a second so Charles Bernard “Bernie” on November 18^th 1947. They lived on Chicago Street in Eaton, before moving across town to High Street.