Just over a year ago, I found this photo of a group of friends from cub scouts hiking up the ridge above Kahala in 1957. I’m in there along with some close friends.

It was one of a batch of photos from that day.

Last year I tried to track down the other hikers.

Chad Dunstan, second from the left, lived at the end of our street, and we spent a lot of time playing together. Chad died of a brain aneurism of some kind in 1986 while living in California.

In the middle is Larry Olney, whose family lived directly across the street from us. His dad worked for the treasury department. He’s runs his own tax/accounting company in Southern California, close to Pasadena, where his family moved after leaving Hawaii.

Second from the right is David Zimmerman, who I recall as being very tall for his age, as I was. I haven’t tracked him down. He lived on Kolohala Street in Kahala, as I recall. One of the Kahala drainage canals ran behind his house, and after it rained, we would climb down into the canal and slide on the moss that grew there.

On the far right, Ned Workman. I don’t know how I ever remembered his name. He was older and helped out with our cub scout group. I was able to find him last year.

I ended up with an unanswered question: Where is Joe Shollenberger? He’s the kid on the far left. I can’t remember much about him at all.

Then this week I got an unexpected answer, which arrived as a comment on one of those old blog entries about the photo.

Hi.
I was doing some research on the Shollenberger famiy and came across your website.

Joseph was killed in the early 1970?s in a car crash, his sister cheryl died in 1962 from a bad reaction to a shot given to her by a doctor, his fathere died in 2003 and his mother just passed last week at the ripe old age of 90.

They lived in a town close to me, and I have meet her only once. I purchased a large collection of old photo’s including many of Joe. I hope this helps.

See ya, Michael Fore,Carthage N.C.

When I asked for a bit more information, he again responded.

Yes I am 100% sure it is the same family.

I have had the collection of photo albums since 2003. I matched the photo up with Joe in several of the albums.

His father was military and also lived in Japan, Germany and then the States, Pennsylvania to be exact. I have Joe’s West Point Grad pictures as well as many of his earlier photo’s. His mother’s name is Hilda Shollenberger and her obituary can be found by using any search engine-just type in “Lt. Colonel Joseph H. Shollenberger”, and Joe’s father’s name also appears in the book titled”THE LONGEST DAY,JUNE 6TH 1944″ by Cornelius Ryan.

Joe’s father was one of the first to land on the beaches on D Day. I have been looking on and off for five years trying to trace down the Shollenberger family. There are no known kin left in the US, but there are some left in Europe. It is really strange to find someone looking for Joe. I will continue to look for the distant family members. I just want to return all of these things to them. If you would like more info just ask