Photo provided to the Times Observer Family members have identified two additional members of a photo initially shared in the Veterans Day edition of the Times Observer. John Steffan is in the front row at the far right while Arthur Warr can be found in the middle of the front row.

Family members have identified two additional members of a photo initially shared in the Veterans Day edition of the Times Observer.

John Steffan is in the front row at the far right while Arthur Warr can be found in the middle of the front row.

Warr was born in Sheffield but not that one — he was born in Sheffield, England on March 6, 1920, the son of Doris Holmes and Thomas Warr. The family emigrated to the United States when he was a young age and was a Warren resident for most of his life.

He went into the U.S. Navy with these other men in 1943 and was discharged in Dec. 1945. He served two years aboard ship in Panama as a motor machinist mate second class.

He returned to Warren and carved out a career at National Forge, retiring after 32 years of service. Hobbies included boating, water skiing and fishing as well as gardening.

He died at the age of 95 in June 2015.

Warr’s second wife, Helen, reached out to the Times Observer to talk about her husband, whom she married on April 12, 2008.

“I’ve known him all my life,” Helen said. “He couldn’t go out to sea. He got seasick.”

So instead of the ocean he traversed the Panama Canal again and again.

When they met in 1953, Helen said he never dreamed she would marry him.

“You just never know those things,” she said. “When I seen that picture in the paper, I knew right away that was Art.” She confirmed that identification with a niece, as well.

“He just had a wonderful personality,” Helen said. “He was a lot of fun to be around.”

Steffan was born in September 1916 and grew up on Deerlick St. in Sheffield.

His son, Terry, doesn’t know much about his father’s service other than that he was stationed in the Pacific Theatre.

“(He) didn’t talk much about World War II to us kids,” Terry said. “(I) don’t recall his rank or duties, but he was also the ship’s carpenter, barber and a top-notch boxer.”

Steffan’s post-war story is mirrored by millions of other men and women that came home from service in the Armed Forces during World War II.

Terry said his Dad built a house on Fifth St. in Youngsville, raised four children and worked at National Forge for 41 years.

He married Eva Labesky four years before he entered the service and the couple spent over 50 years together until John’s passing in 1994.