{Mayfield, Kentucky}...A ceremony was held Sunday at a Mayfield retirement center in honor of John Baldree of Mayfield, who turned 102 on March 2nd, making him the oldest Kentucky member of the Disabled American Veterans. State DAV officials presented Baldree with a 60-year service pin. Randie Baldree, John Baldree's nephew, said the elder man was an engineer in the U.S. Army and helped build airfields for the Army Air Corps in the Philippines and Australia during World War II.
