The Royal Canadian Legion Saskatchewan Command LEST WE FORGET 371 SEVERN, Gordon WWII Gordon was born in Viscount, SK and also took his schooling through Saskatchewan Government correspondence courses. He finished his schooling in Prairie River. Gordon enlisted in the Royal Canadian Navy in the spring of 1941 and served in Canada during World War II. He was stationed in Halifax, NS and saw service in the Atlantic. SHERIDAN, Dr. Philip Alexander WWII Dr. Sheridan was born in Meacham, Saskatchewan on April 26, 1925. He obtained a Pharmacy degree, a Masters in Hospital Administration, a Medical degree and finally, his specialty, Radiology, which he practiced in Edmonton, SK until he retired in 1993. He served in the Royal Canadian Air Force in World War II. He married Dorothy and they had four children. Dr. Sheridan passed away on March 14, 2006. SHOEMAKER, Otto F. WWII Otto was born on October 26, 1907 in White Russia and came with his parents to Saskatchewan’s Young district in the early 1900s. In 1926, he came to the Plunkett area, worked for district farmers and then the Department of Highways until he retired in 1972. In February 1942, he joined the Army Service Corps, served in Canada and was discharged in 1944. He was awarded the Canadian Volunteer Service Medal. He raised six children with his wife, Evelyn Beadle, and was Overseer and village councilor of Plunkett, as well as a representative to the Boards of Lanigan Hospital and the Nursing Home. Otto was the only one of the family to have his surname ‘Anglicized’. His half-brothers Jake, Rinhold, Art, Carl and Egon, who all enlisted, spelled it ‘Schumaker’. Otto was a member of RCL Viscount Branch 271 and he died on January 27, 1990.
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