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... A PBA FAMILY HISTORY ... |
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| Back in the day — April 1935 to be exact — there was an organization in New York City known as the Patrolmen’s Wives Benevolent Association (PWBA), which represented just what the title implies. According to PBA Magazine contributor Dorothy (Young) Lahm, the woman sitting front row center in the photo above is her grandmother, Margaret Young Searl, who was PWBA president from 1935-1940. She had been married to Sgt. Harry J. Young (photo, top right, circa 1915), who had been one of the earliest PBA presidents, from 1913-1914, and died in 1920. Then, in about 1922, she married another member of the NYPD service, George Searl. | But the NYPD connections don’t stop there. The woman standing back row center is Dorothy Lahm’s mother, Ella Young, who was married to Margaret Young Searl’s son, Patrolman Charles B. Young (photo, bottom right, circa 1930) and became PWBA president in 1944. Charles Young, Dorothy Lahm’s father, died in 1996 at age 98 and was, for a time, the oldest living PBA member. The PBA Magazine thanks Mrs. Lahm for the interesting photographs — and for sharing with us the equally fascinating NYPD-PBA family history. One question, though: Did all the ladies of the Patrolmen’s Wives Benevolent Association patronize the same beauty parlor? |
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