More on Uncle Lou Hurbanek- South Hills High School band and U.S. Army during WWII

Thanks Kathy for sharing some memories - love the part when you said there were many family dinner pictures were taken with us sitting around the table with Owens Corning Fiberglass Insulation paper decorating the walls. 

I didn't realize that Uncle Lou was in the high school marching band!  He played the "alto horn" in his senior year of high school.  The below is from Ancestry.com's yearbook collection:

Uncle Lou is the second from the left in the front row.

Here is the entire page

It states that Louis Hurbanek is one of the graduating seniors that year and that he plays the alto horn.

Uncle Lou went into the service after high school. 

From mom's story:  Lou went to the service after high school.  We were all so upset.  He went to Fort Meade in Maryland.  He had a cushy job in the hobby shop.  Every time he came home on leave, we all cried and carried on when he had to go back. 

Cushy hobby shop job or not - when he joined the service he didn't know what he was going to be doing or where he would end up and that is very brave!

I'll never forget Uncle Lou's amazing train platform.  I could spend hours looking at everything.  Christmases there were so much fun - the trains, the cookies (Aunt Flo's cookies blew me away!) and the Christmas tree decoration that revolved and changed colors.