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VERNELL B. SHEPLER

Four Proposed for Postal Jobs

   WASHINGTON (AP) --- President Kennedy has sent nominations to the Senate for postmasters at these Washington towns: Edward O. Reichman, Carnation,: Vernell B. Shepler, Coulee Dam; Jennie F. Snider, Rainier, and William E. Mitchell,. Vashon.

[The Spokesman-Review, Spokane, WA, 10 Aug 1963, Sat, Page 17]

This register documenting postmasters of the Coulee Dam, WA, Post Office shows that Vernell was confirmed for the job on 30 September 1963, his commission was signed and sent on 2 October and he assumed the role of postmaster on 11 October.

Vernell made some local history by hiring a female mail carrier.

Female Carries Mail

   Mrs. Ann Wright, first woman mail carrier at Coulee Dam, Wash., is started on her rounds by Postmaster Vernell Shepler. Mrs. Wright this week began delivering mail along the route formerly handled by Robert lanetta, who left to continue his college education. Mrs. Wright and her husband, an electrical inspector for the third power plant construction project at Grand Coulee Dam, came to Washington last July from Los Banos , Calif. (E. Rice photo.)

[Spokane Chronicle, Spokane, WA, 03 Apr 1969, Thu, Page 21]

Grave marker for Vernell B. Shepler in Chewelah Pioneer Cemetery, Chewelah (Stevens county), Washington.

Vernell registered for the draft  in Colville, WA on 16 October 1940  and was inducted into the Army at Tacoma, WA on 12 May 1942.

SSgt Shepler was wounded in action in December 1944 and evacuated to a field hospital where he was diagnosed as "First Location: Face, generally; Second Diagnosis: Eye, disease of, other; Causative Agent: Bullet, Machine Gun, Enucleation (removal of eye) "

He was discharged from that hospital in late February and sent to another somewhere in the UK where in early March 1945, he was admitted with the diagnosis "Location: Eyeball, generally; Causative Agent: Bullet, Machine Gun; Diagnosis: Eye, absence of, Treatment Acrylic implant (implantation) of eye or Prosthesis of eye."

He remained in that hospital into August of 1945, probably spending more tome waiting for the prosthesis to be manufactured than anything else, and was discharged with the notation "Invalided Home (except repatriated) during current year"

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