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Cassadaga sisters inducted into Jamestown DAR

Submitted Photo The Jamestown Chapter of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution inducted five new members recently at the Patriots’ luncheon. Shown in the photograph are Chaplain Martha Karapansto, new member Sandra Tellinghuisen, Chapter Regent Connie Pilato, and new members Sara Smith Becker, Mary Bernard Holton, Dawn Hindman Swanson and Karole Bernard Lawson. Holton and Lawson are two sisters from Cassadaga.

JAMESTOWN — The National Society Daughters of the American Revolution was formed in 1890. One of the founders was Mary Smith Lockwood from Smith Mills in Chautauqua County. The Jamestown Chapter was formed 10 years later and has its own home, which is the historic house on Prospect Street in Jamestown. Connie Pilato is the Chapter Regent.

Recently, the annual Patriots’ luncheon was held in the Jamestown Christ United Methodist Church. Guest speaker at the luncheon was Steven A. Johnson, who served in Vietnam from 1967-1968 in the Marine Corps, and recently published a book on his time there, entitled “Cammie Up!”

During the luncheon, five new members were inducted into the Jamestown DAR. Two of them were sisters from Cassadaga. Karole Bernard Lawson and Mary Bernard Holton were the two Cassadaga sisters recently inducted. Both of them grew up on the family farm near Pickett’s Corners on the old Route 60 in Cassadaga, and both are graduates of the Cassadaga Valley Central School.

On hand for their induction were their husbands, Jack Lawson and Jim Holton. DAR member Susan Washington Sipos of Cassadaga introduced the two sisters to the group prior to the oath of office being administered. Also present for the event and induction was Cassadaga Village Historian John Sipos.

Any woman who is over the age of 18 and can prove heritage to a patriot of the American Revolution is welcome to be a member of the DAR. For more information, call 664-4144.

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