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river.” This meant that the German Army had Ribble, after being invited to a school party
been cut in two, and the end of the war was by a friend. After graduating, Earl and Mona
near. He also said that “hundreds of German were married in September 1949, and he
civilians fled to the American side to get away went to work at a CPA firm, while she began
from the Russians.” Moving into Berlin, Earl working as a librarian at Clovis High School.
remembered “total destruction – no building Earl eventually opened his own accounting
was left standing.” He joined the 59th Finance firm which he headed for 41 years. He and
Group as part of occupied Germany, which Mona had two daughters, two granddaughters
“worked out of German houses.” He left and four great-grandchildren.
Germany and headed for the U.S. in May 1946
and was discharged at Ft. Bliss, Texas in June Remembering his time in combat and looking
1946. at the shell fragment that he now has framed,
along with his Purple Heart and Nazi war
Earl returned to Clovis, New Mexico and souvenirs, Earl simply said, “The good Lord
Eastern New Mexico University to study had my hand.”
accounting. He met his future wife, Mona
Earl went on the 2017 Texas South
Plains Honor Flight and helped to lay
a wreath at the WWII Memorial in
Washington, which he said was his
favorite activity.
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