A Veteran Soldier of the Second World War Albion Mends, is 100 years .
A 100th birthday celebration for Albion Mends Sr. will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 11, at Warrensburg Manor Care Center, 400 Care Center Drive. Everyone is welcome to attend.
Mr. Mends who is now regarded as the oldest living Old Boy of Mfantsipim School, was born in Ada, Ghana, on Aug. 19, 1918, and graduated in 1938 from Mfantsipim, a Methodist secondary school in Cape Coast, Ghana, where he was a master student.
After graduation, he worked as a postmaster in Accra, where he met and married Georgina Isabella Sagoe. The couple was blessed with nine children.
Mends served in the Signal Corps in Burma in World War II, and after the war, he traveled the country working for the government as camp commander in the Food Production Corporation.
Members of the family emigrated to the United States in 1971, 1973 and 1976, including sons Albion Jr. and Clarence, who were on track scholarships, followed by their brother, Kojo, who came on an agriculture exchange program.
His wife Georgina died in 1981, and Albion Jr. was able to apply for residency in the United States for his father and remaining siblings, with the last family members arriving in 1985 with the help of the First Baptist Church of Warrensburg.
