They kids lived through the Great Depression

Bluffton High School class of 1933 in the fifth grade

These kids who lived through the Great Depression of the 1930s. They are members of the Bluffton High School class of 1933 as fifth graders in the 1926 school year.

Front row, from left, Phyllis Triplehorn Stanewick, Eleanor Worthington Locher, LaDonna Stepleton Basinger, Evelyn Triplehorn Benroth, Thelma Wingate Balmer, Vera Burkholder, Vedabelle Cahill McClure, Maxine Basinger, Marcile Luginbuhl Habegger, Clara Agin Jones, Barbara Joyce Hauenstein Todd.

Second row from left, Rosaline Disbrow, Meanna Steiner, Helen Hartzler, Treva Lewis Matthewson, Bess Patrick Madden, Rita Hankish Hallett, Margaret Hahn Steiner, Janice King, Maedonna Steiner, Lenore Amstutz Johnson.

Third row from left, Gerald Faze, Paul Shulaw, Ralph Kohli, Dwight Diller, Kermit Kibele, Ralph Diller, Wayne Yerger, Arnold Epp, Paul Rhoades, Raymond Holden, Cleon Steiner.

Fourth row from left, Richard Ludwig, Russel Triplehorn, Don Smucker, Neil Duffman, John Romey, Don Corson, Gordon Alderfer, Lincoln Reichenbach, George Watkins, Dale Davidson, Wayne Deppler and Teresa Slusser, teacher.