This March 2, 1944, Lowell Tribune article was found on page 2, column 2:
Maynard Bright, naval V-12 student at St. Lawrence University, at Canton, N.Y., spent the week-end at home.
The following Sept. 21, 1944, Lowell Tribune article was found on page 2 column 1:
Mainard Bright, S/1, stationed at present at Great Lakes, arrived here Tuesday night for a few days leave.
This March 22, 1945, Lowell Tribune article was found on page 2, column 1:
Mainard E. Bright, son of Mr. and Mrs. William R. Bright, Lowell, was graduated recently from the Naval Air Technical Training Center located at Norman, Okla. While at the Norman school he studied the aviation specialty field for which his recruit training aptitude tests showed he was best suited, and is now eligible to earn a petty officer rate.
The newly graduated man is now awaiting further duty orders either to sea or to a naval base.
This May 16, 1946, Lowell Tribune article was found on page 2, column 6:
Thayne C. Fleener, GM 3/c and Mainard Bright S 1/c, have received their discharges from naval service the past week, and are now at home here.
The following article from an unidentified newspaper was found in Town
Historian Richard Schmal's obituary collection:
Mainard Bright, age 63, of Sacramento, Calif., formerly of Lowell,
passed away Wed., Dec. 21, 1988, in Sacramento. He is survived by two
brothers, Raymond (Edna) Bright of Sacramento and Murland (Gloria)
Bright of Gary, and six nephews. Cremation was arranged by the Neptune
Society of Sacramento, and the ashes were scattered at sea on Dec. 21.
Mainard Bright was a 1943 graduate of Lowell High School and also
graduated from Ball State University. He served in the U.S. Navy from
1943-45, stationed at Quonset Point, Rhode Island.
[Note: According to the article, Mr. Bright's death and the scattering
of his ashes occurred on the same day. Perhaps there is a typing error
in the news account.]
