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Londo E. Gross attended Bramwell School in Bramwell, Mercer County, West Virginia. He was Class of 1958. He was the son of Londo and Ruth Gross. L. E.'s father, Londo Edward Sr., owned a corner drugstore pharmacy in downtown Bramwell, W.Va. where local kids would gather on weekend nights to dance. The jukebox would often find its way outside, on the sidewalk, truly making the party a community event. Londo, Sr and L. E.'s mother, Ruth Mahaffey Gross, hosted many of these social events becoming well known to young people in neighboring counties as well. 

"They shall not grow old, as we that are left grow old. Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning we will remember them.”

- Laurence Binyon