Welcome to the Valley High School Alumni site. Run by Valley Alumni FOR Valley Alumni.   Your information is accessible only by VHS Alumni who have signed up on this site. No information will be shared with anyone else unless you opt out by allowing your information to be public. This site is FREE.  TO JOIN:  Click on MISSING CLASSMATES, (we know you all are not missing, just not signed in) upper right corner of this page, drop-down arrow, click your year, and then your name. Follow the directions to join.  If your name is not listed, use the Contact Link, under Home Page Link through this site OR vhsreunions.com@gmail.com.   Please encourage any/all VHS grads and former students to register on our free site! 

******To Change your email/contact information - Left Side of Home Page - Member Functions - Edit Contact Information, Then Save *******Please review and update!!!  Lets Stay in Touch!!!!****

1977 Valley High School Graduates!

We will use a new website to communicate our 50th Reunion plans.

https://www.classcreator.com/West-Des-Moines-Iowa-Valley-1977       (copy and paste)

Please complete your profile and add any information you would like to share with your classmates. This website is a work in progress but currently has a list of classmates as well as an In Memory page. We will continue to refine the site and send communication on our 50th Reunion via this site, so we strongly encourage you to join! Reunion planning is just beginning but we will keep you updated as quickly as possible so you can be sure to attend!

1977 VHS Reunion Committee 

Lisa Bussard Neala Fredrickson Ellingson Sharon Heithoff Vickery Curt Madsen Jeff Rose Brian Steffen Jan Tharp Gute Mike Wilson

HEAD OVER TO THE EVITE PAGE FOR MORE INFORMATION AND SIGNUP!!!  COPY AND PASTE

https://www.evite.com/event/0339IIAE4SKDAAHJ6EPRN4NSRAPFWY?utm_campaign=send_sharable_link&utm_source=evitelink&utm_medium=sharable_invite

Class of 1996 - 30th Class Reunion

Save the Date - August 22, 2026

We're thrilled to announce we will have our 30-year reunion on Saturday, August 22, from 6-9 pm, at Smash Park in West Des Moines!

This will be an adults-only evening. However, we are also organizing an official pre-reunion get together at the Iowa Star Fair on Friday night, August 21. Location on the Fairgrounds TBA. This will be open to everyone. Stay tuned for more details coming shortly. Hope to see you all there!

HAPPY NEW YEAR,
‘66 CLASSMATES!  New details!!!

Class of ‘66 reunion!
9/19, 4-9pm,
Walnut Woods.
Hotel reservations, Sheraton 515-457-2107
Will see you all at our 60-year reunion on September 19!

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"GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN"

REMEMBERING OUR VALLEY SERVICE MEMBERS WHO LOST THEIR LIVES WHILE SERVING OUR COUNTRY 

A huge thank you to Don Ames, Class of 1949 who has generously spent countless years (yes years) of research to add info from Ancestry for our classes of 1901 - 1949,  He also proudly served in the US Army during the Korea War and did the research for the following list.  Go to Class Year for complete story.

Class of 1927 Alfred William Hudgell, Boatswain Mate. 1st class, U. S. Navy,
He was a Boatswian Mate 1st. class, serving on board the USS Tennessee (BB-243) in the early morning hours of Sunday, December 7th.1941

Class of 1932  Francis Myron Gray, Col, U.S. Army, died Ft. Lee, VA 1972. 
He enlisted in the United States Army, 20 July 1941 and was released from that duty, 18 June 1947. He was later called back during the Korean War and the VietNam War. Col Francis Myron Gray died 08 Aug 1972 while stationed at Fort Lee, VA

Class of 1932  Kenneth Philomin Kenworthy, PFC, U.S. Army, KIA Germany 1942, during WW II.   He served in the U.S. Army during WWII and was "KIA" 17 Nov 1944 near Brandenberg, Germany.

Class of 1934  John Walden Emerick, Electricians Mate, 1st. Class, U.S. Navy, "On Eternal Patrol" 1943, during WW II. 

Class of 1934  Wayne D. Hicks, LT., U.S. Army Air Corps, bombardier, KIA, Picardie, France 1944, during WW II. 

Class of 1937  Elmer Boyd Kirts, CPO, U.S. Navy, Lost at Sea 1945, during WW II. 

Class of 1937  Robert George Overton, Pvt., U.S. Army, KIA Strass, Germany 1945 during WW II.

Class of 1938  Corporal Donald Dearborn Jerrison, United States Marine Corps, age 21, killed on board the USS Arizona, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, Dec 7th, 1941

Class of 1939   Howard R. Helt, Sgt U.S. Army Air Corps, gunner, MIA India 1944, WW II, during WW II. 

Class of 1940  Robert Douglas Compton, U.S. Army Air Corps, died in training accident, Pauls Valley, OK, 1944, during WW II. 

Class of 1940  Williard Eugene Smith, U.S. Army Air Force, KIA 1944 in Europe, during WW II.  

Class of 1943  David Patrick Carlin, Signal Corps, U. S. Army Air Corps, died 1943 during WW II, during training accident in Northern CA.  

Class of 1943  Milo Foresman, Sgt. U.S. Army Air Corps, gunner, KIA during 1944 WW II, over the Palau Islands.

Class of 1943   Lyle Everett Robertson, 2nd LT. U.S. Army Air Corps, died in a plane crash, 1944 in Panama, during WW II. 

Class of 1944 Richard Henry Lowe, PVT, U.S. Army, KIA, Belgium during BATTLE OF THE BULGE in 1945.

Class of 1960  Donald Glenn Peddicord, U.S. Navy, KIA 1967 in South Vietnam.

Class of 1963  Russell Thomas Pickering, 2nd Lt. U.S. Army, KIA 1969 in Vietnam

Class of 1965  Randall Merle Cable, U.S. Army, died 1970 in Japan of non battle condition

Class of 1966 David M King, pilot, U.S. Navy, grad of U.S. Naval Academy, died 1974 near Yuma, AZ. while on a training mission. 

Class of 1966  Michael Lee Zappia, U.S. Marine Corps, killed in action in Vietnam February 25, 1969.

Class of 1969 - George E. Warren, U. S. Navy, killed in car accident 1972 while serving at Lemoore Naval Station in California.

Class of 1975 Scott Christopher McCully. U.S. Army, Stationed at Camp Edwards, Korea, died 1978 of Pulmonary Edema.

Class of 2023 Declan Coady, U. S  Army Reservist and Drake University business major from West Des Moines, killed in Action in Kuwait 2026

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Thanks to Don Ames for his recent post for Memorial Day.
For those Valley classmates I knew and whose funerals I attended, it was bittersweet.
For those I did not know but whose service I honor, Thank You.
Please know that your work is appreciated, Don, as well as your service.

Thanks to the administrators of the page for the post and support of the page.

Susan Holmes Andersen
Class of 1967