WWII Vet. Joseph Stearns leaves behind a coin at dam, solving an 8-decade-old TVA mystery
Submitted photo. Tennessee Valley Authority’s 8-decade-old coin imprint mystery solved by Stearns father and son over Father’s Day weekend. Joseph Stearns reunited with his son, Joseph “Grant” Stearns, at the Fontana Dam, unexpectedly finding their late grandfather and great-grandfather WWII US Army Vet. Joseph P. Stearns.
Joseph Stearns of California was in Tennessee at his wife’s family reunion and his son, Joseph “Grant” Stearns, just so happened to be hiking the Appalachian Trail in New Hampshire when Canad...
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