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Normandy at 99 Soon-to-be centenarian recalls special visit to France

On the day Kathleen Varner Teagarden of Waynesburg turned 19 – June 6, 1944 – her husband parachuted into Normandy with the 82nd Airborne Division. Last June, at the age of 99, she visited the area where Robert Teagarden landed and fought during D-Day, the Allied invasion to end the Nazi ...