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LONG BEACH, Calif. –Philo Clair Farnsworth, 52, Long Beach, died June 27, 1976, at the Long Beach Naval Hospital after a long illness. Born Aug. 1, 1923, Mountain Home, Utah, to Philo Taylor and Hazel Thayne Farnsworth. Married Adele Frances Sieber May 22, 1948. Wounded while serving with the Marine Corps on Okinawa in WW […]

ARLINGTON, Va. (UPI) — Tucker Gougelmann, reportedly an ex-CIA agent who returned to Saigon to bring four adopted children out before Vietnam fell to the communists, was buried Friday in Arlington National Cemetery. Gougelmann missed the evacuation of U.S. citizens and, according to the Vietnamese, died in a hospital in Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon) […]

Jack Reed Hays, 51, of 1727 Main St., Apt. 160, died [Friday] [June 18, 1976] at his residence. Funeral services were Monday at the Lunn Funeral Home in Olney, Tex. Mr. Hays was born Nov. 3, 1924, in Seymore, Tex. He had been a resident of La Marque for the past four years. A veteran […]

N. Rogers Farley, 56, of 2202 Edwards, Alton, was pronounced dead on arrival at 11:15 a.m. Friday [May 28, 1976] at Alton Memorial Hospital. He was president of the Drury & Wead Co. in Alton for 33 years. He married the former Betty Redmond Dec. 27, 1939, in Alton. Besides his widow, he is survived […]

Services for Mr. James Edward Rivers, 54, of 2853 Buckskin Road, Orlando, who passed away Thursday [May 20, 1976], will be held Monday at 11:00 a.m. in the chapel of Cox-Parker Funeral Home with Reverend William Branch of Newnan, Ga. Officiating. Interment will be in Glen Haven Memorial Park. He is survived by his wife: […]

PEKIN (PNS) — Terrence M. McShane, 59, R.R. 1, died at 4:40 a.m. Wednesday [April 21, 1976] at the Pekin Memorial Hospital. He had been ill several months. His funeral will be at 9:30 a.m. Friday at the Fife Funeral Home, East Chicago, Ind., followed by services at the St. Mary’s Church, East Chicago. Burial […]

Howard B. Floyd Sr., 53, of Magee died at his residence early Wednesday morning [April 14, 1976] following a lengthy illness. He was a lifetime resident of Simpson County, a veteran of World War II, having served in the U.S. Marines in the Pacific, and was a member of the Corinth Baptist Church. Services were […]

Richard C. Deitz, 52, Sunset Drive, Somerset, died April 8, 1976, in Somerset Community Hospital. He was born Nov. 13, 1923, in Berlin, the son of the late Martin and Bertha (Deeter) Deitz. Preceded in death by three brothers and two sisters. Survived by his wife, the former Betty Brant; two daughters, Kathy and Cindy, […]

Michael A. (Turk) Monestersky, age 58 years of Fairbanks R. D. 1, Filbert Heights, Pa. died Saturday, April 3, 1976 in the Veterans Hospital, Pittsburgh, Pa. He was born December 2, 1917 at Gates, Pa., a son of the late Anthony and Anne Monestersky, and stepfather, Frank Nikonchik. He was a member of the Holy […]

INDEPENDENCE–Services for Roy Kenneth Drake, 50, who died Tuesday [March 2, 1976] in Chicago, Ill., will be 11 a.m. Saturday at White Funeral Home Chapel; burial in Spangler Cemetery near Aurora; survivors include his wife, Norma Conerd Drake; a daughter, Mrs. Claude Butcher of Chicago; three sons, Keneye, Reedy and Kemp, all of Chicago; a […]