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Rosary services for George D. Parks will be at the Immaculate Conception tonight at 8. Requiem Mass will be at the church Thursday morning at 11 with entombment in Desert Lawn Mausoleum. Parks, 50, died Tuesday [September 7, 1971] in Parkview Baptist Hospital. He was a Marine veteran of World War II. Pallbearers include John […]

George H. (Jim) Hughes, 48, 947 Quincy Drive, Hamilton, died Thursday [September 2, 1971] at 4:55 a.m. at Fort Hamilton Hospital. A veteran of World War II, he worked for U.S. Plywood-Champion Papers and was a member of the First Baptist Church and George Washington Lodge 17, F & AM. He leaves his mother, Mrs. […]

Edward J. Wotanis Sr. in Summit on Aug. 30, 1971. Beloved husband of Margaret Kerwin; father of Edward J., David, Miss Margaret and Miss Mary; brother of Joseph, Leo, Mrs. Sivia Zynblocki, Mrs. Cecil Cirello, Mrs. Adel Krulewicz; residence 3218 Banta Rd., South Plainfield. Funeral services on Thursday morning at 9:30 a.m. from the James […]

OCEAN GROVE – Final respects for Ocean Grove Police Chief David J. Lake, who died Monday [August 23, 1971] serving his community, were paid yesterday afternoon in a crowded St. Paul’s Church here. The town mourns the ex-Marine who joined the police force in 1953, gave total dedication and talent to his duties here, and […]

INDIANOLA–Harvey Eli Pyron, 59, formerly of Indianola died Thursday [August 12, 1971] at his home in Redding, Calif. Funeral services will be held Wednesday at 10 a.m. at the Coleman Funeral Home Chapel in Indianola. Burial will follow in the Indianola Cemetery. The Rev. William Harrison will officiate. Mr. Pyron is survived by three sisters, […]

Services for Peter M. Katos, 47, of 5300 South Shore Dr., owner and operator of the Eagle Restaurant, 5311 S. Blackstone Ave., will be held at 11:30 a.m. tomorrow in St. Constantine Orthodox Church, 7351 S. Stony Island Ave. Mr. Katos died Monday [August 9, 1971] in Michael Reese Hospital. Surviving are his widow, Dolores; […]

PINE LAKE – Eugene H. Luebke, 47, of Hartland Rt. 3, a supervisor at the Wisconsin School For Boys at Wales for about 15 years, died Saturday [July 31, 1971] at Elmbrook Memorial Hospital, Brookfield, after a long illness. A veteran of World War II, he is survived by his widow, Patricia (nee Brown); a […]

James H. Heard [July 13, 1971] of Villa Park, beloved husband of Rosalle, nee Thomas; loving father of Gay, James and Stephen; brother of Edith Campbell, J. E. Heard, Kitty Ahim and the late Bill. Services Thursday, 2 p.m., Steuerle Funeral Home, 350 S. Ardmore, Villa Park. Interment private. Member of Villa Park VFW Post, […]

Private cremation rites for Ben Robert Chittenden Jr., 47, who was a mortgage investment broker for Bankers’ Finance & Holding Co. in Phoenix, will be in Greenwood Memorial Park. Mr. Chittenden died Thursday [June 17, 1971] in Doctors Hospital. He was born in Spokane, Wash., and served in the U.S. Marines during World War II. […]

GAINESVILLE – Raiford prison authorities Thursday confirmed one of three persons killed in an auto accident near Jacksonville Wednesday night [June 16, 1971] was an escaped trusty from the Veterans Administration Hospital in Gainesville. Authorities said John Douglas Mathews, 36, also known as Richard Douglas Morgan, of Gainesville, had walked away from the hospital Wednesday […]