Wayne Arlo Smetanka (1936-2023) Warren High School class of 1954

 

1954 Dragon yearbook

Source:  Billings Gazette

1967 Warren City Directory 

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1983 Warren City Directory

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The popularity of Wayne as a baby name is graphed here.  Let's take a look at grandchild Asa.  

Source:  Social Security Administration

Asa spent the 1st half of the 20th century on a bumpy ride to oblivion, falling off the baby names chart for 25 years after 1949.  Since his return, he has unsteadily moved into the top half of the chart.

Other members of the class of 1954 (35):

2023

Glenn Cook.  (4/17)

2021

Elaine Moore Larsen.  (9/17)
Margaret Hennessey Sorensen.  (5/21)

Margaret Scalise.  (4/29)

Marian Cable Rulander (4/24)

Nancy Zock Clark.  (2/16)

2020
Patricia Harrington McAvoy.  (8/5)

Elizabeth Ann Pasquino Deck.  (2/22)
Beatrice Brown Bines.  (1/26)

2019
Margaret Eaton Watts.  (10/30)
Mary Alice Morse Akif.  (10/1)
Sally Nelson Metzger.  (8/1)
Phoebe Marie Jewell Ahlgren.  (4/29)
David Neal Redmond.  (3/4)

2018
Roberta Cable Anderson.  (11/3)
Patrick Michael Sheehan.  (9/19)
Charles Salerno.  (3/19)
Joan White Wood.  (2/12)
Janet Lauffenberger Day.  (2/11)

2017
Georgeanne Pappas Kornreich.  (11/27)
Anita Miller Smith.  (10/25)
Michelene Figliuzzi Colgrove.  (6/1)
James Hornstrom.  (3/9)
Richard Latimer.  (1/31)
Guard Pierce.  (1/24)

2016
Thomas Gray.  (10/16)
Franklin Ristau.  (4/21)

Richard Helmbrecht.  (3/27)
Luella Wert Wile.  (3/15)
Edward Erickson.  (3/4)

2015
Keith Otterbein.  (7/20)
Marlene Ceriola English.  (6/28)

2014

Robert Johnson.  (8/10)

Lois Egger Anderson McDanel.  (6/23)

Phillip Stewart.  (2/20)