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Graveside service for Vernon C. Akers, 83, will be Saturday at 3 p.m. at St. Thomas Cemetery in Coeur d’Alene. Spokane Cremation and Burial Service is in charge of arrangements. Mr. Akers, who was born in Harlowton, Mont., died Feb. 2 [2005]. He was a resident of Spokane for 50 years. He served in both […]

Robert J. “Pete” Cook of Loveland, OH. Beloved husband of the late Elsie (nee Helton) Cook; loving father of Robert L. and Larry E. Cook; proud grandfather of Jaxon Cook, Justin Cook, and Kimberly Hacker; caring great-grandfather of Tristen, Ava, and Tobias Cook, and Brooklyn and Jacob Hacker; dear brother of the late Bess Stanley, […]

FALLBROOK —- Odell H. “Smitty” Smith, 83, died Saturday, Jan. 22, 2005. Born Nov. 6, 1921, in Butler, Texas, he lived in Fallbrook for 50 years. He owned an air conditioning and refrigeration business for 15 years and Vista Pipes and Tobacco for eight years. He worked for Tri-City Medical Center as a plant engineer […]

Grant W. Rediske, age 80, formerly of Plymouth, died on Wednesday January 19, 2005 at Riverside Medical Center in Waupaca. He was born February 14, 1924 in Sumner, Iowa son of the late Ernest & Anna Heller Rediske. Grant joined the United States Marine Corps and served with the special forces “Marine Raiders” during WWII […]

The time has come for me to say “hasta la vista.” C. E. “Blackie” McClelland went to be with his heavenly savior on Monday, Jan. 10, 2005. Blackie passed away after a battle with cancer at home in the loving care of his family. To those who knew and loved Blackie, he was bigger than […]

Richard (Dick) W. Marr, 79, of Baker City, passed away peacefully Jan. 10, 2005, at St. Elizabeth Health Services. Dick was born in Wendling, Ore., on Jan. 23, 1925. He grew up in the Willamette Valley, graduating from Falls City High School. The Marr family will host a memorial celebration of life in June; all […]

George Botner, 82, of Cocoa, passed away Thursday, January 6, 2005, at Wuesthoff Hospice Care Center in Rockledge, Florida. He moved to Brevard County in 1946 from Spring Valley, New York where he was born. He had many careers in his lifetime, a Marine, a retired Cocoa police lieutenant and the former owner of the […]

Allen A. Pearce, 80, of Kansas City, died Jan. 5, 2005, at the Independence Health Care Center, where he had been for about three weeks. Mr. Pearce was born June 15, 1924, in Kansas City. Graveside services are scheduled for 12:30 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 18, at Leavenworth National Cemetery in Leavenworth, KS. He served in […]

John (Chill) Acuna, 79, died Jan 1, 2005. A viewing will be held at Green Valley Mortuary on Jan. 5, 2005 from 6 to 8 p.m. A graveside service will be held at the El Dorado Cemetery in El Dorado on Jan. 7, 2005 at 1 p.m.

Harvey Clair Stocker, 83, of Danville, went to be with the Lord at 4:05 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 1, 2005, at Illiana Health Care Systems in Danville. Harvey was born in Rhinelander, Wis., on Oct. 28, 1921, to Arthur William and Myrtle Dart Stocker. He married Joyce Ann Dobbs on Feb. 2, 1944, in Waukegan, Ill. […]