Today we mark the 75th anniversary of D-Day
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| Photo by Gloria Holt
Courtesy www.usar.army.mil
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The prayer FDR read that day over national broadcast radio
can be listened to as originally recorded in 1944.
Corp. Irvine R De Remer died in France later in 1944 and his remains were moved and reburied at Saint Avold, Cemetery, Saint Avold, France at grave number: C 21 45
He was known to many as "Sonny" and had attended school at Matamoras, PA.
His parents bought their farm on River Rd.in Montague, once called "Millbrook Farm", and ran it as a boarding house for locals and summer visitors, with the help of his G. I. insurance according to what his nephew understood.
His parents, Irvine Sr. and Bertha, acquired the property in 1945, though they may have first moved to town in 1942. They lost it to the Tocks Island acquisitions, and it still stands on the left side of Shimer's Brook.
