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Mid Hudson Times, Wednesday, May 30, 2018
IN THIS ISSUE
Calendar. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
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Classifieds. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Crossword. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Letters to the Editor. . . . . . . . . . 8
Meadow Hill. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Town of Newburgh. . . . . . . . . . . 25
Newburgh Heritage. . . . . . . . . . . 10
New Windsor.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Obituaries. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Opinion. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Police Blotter. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Service Directory. . . . . . . . . . . 36
Sports. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
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Center, 12 Grand Street.
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p.m. Town Hall, 1496 Route 300, Town of
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A long & happy life
New Windsor couple is longest-married in Archdiocese
By SHANTAL RILEY
[email protected]
T
hey met during WWII, while he was
serving in the 997th Signal Battalion
of the Sixth Army under Lt. Gen.
Walter Krueger in Australia. “There
were all these beautiful women,” Joseph
Farina said, recalling that year in 1942.
One stood out above the others. “We
just hit it off,” said Mr. Farina about the
pretty, petite blonde lady he met at a
social function that year. They married a
few months later on Nov. 5, 1942.
That was more than 75 years ago. Joseph
and Elizabeth Farina were recently
named the “longest married couple” in
the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New
York. “Four hours after we married, I was
back on duty,” Mr. Farina said.
“I went back to the communications
center in Brisbane. I was a Morse code
operator,” the City of Newburgh native
said. “We were setting up to defend
Australia from the Japanese. We were
going to defend Australia from Brisbane,
down the Southeastern coast to Adelaide.”
The Australians, as a Commonwealth
country, had joined the war earlier than
the United States. “The Australians were
very appreciative that we were there,”
Farina said.
Soon after, General McArthur decided
to move operations into the Philippines
and New Guinea, where Farina ended up
in 1942 and 1943. “It was jungle warfare,”
he said. “The jungle was tough as the
Japanese were. We finished them in
Manila.”
He was talking about the 1945 Battle
of Manila, in which more than 100,000
civilians were killed and the City of
Manila was destroyed. The battle
effectively ended the Japanese occupation
of the South Pacific.
After the Ba