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Harold G. Schrier, U.S. Marine veteran who played a major role in Memorial Day ceremonies at Fort Myers Memorial Gardens, has died [June 3, 1971] in Manatee Memorial Hospital in Bradenton. Edward T. Kuss, senior vice commander, Veterans of Foreign Wars, District 13, who was in charge of the Iwo Jima Memorial dedication program at […]

Eugene P. Daut, 48, 92 Park Ave., Elsmere, interior decorator foreman for Greenwich House Interiors of Cincinnati, died Saturday [May 29, 1971] at the Cincinnati Veterans Administration Hospital. Mr. Daut was a World War II Marine Corps veteran. He is survived by his wife, Alice Flanigan Daut; five sons, Paul B. and HJames F. both […]

Mr. Clifford W. DeRyke, 538 E. Hammond St., Otsego, passed away suddenly Saturday morning [May 15, 1971] in Portage. Mr. DeRyke was born November 12, 1923 in Kalamazoo. He was a veteran of World War II and a member of the Plumbers and Fitters Union No. 337. He was employed as a construction superintendent by […]

COCOA BEACH – A Cocoa Beach businessman and his wife were killed Tuesday night [April 13, 1971] when their twin-engine private airplane crashed in the mountains near Harlan, Ky. Dead are Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Wesley Howard, 46, 210 Bimini Road, The plane was bound from Charlotte, N.C., to Columbus, Ohio, when the crash occurred […]

Francis J. Sibolski, 47, of 235 Springside Ave. died Saturday [March 27, 1971] at his home. Born in Pittsfield, he was a lifelong resident. Mr Sibolski was a postman for the past 25 years He was a Marine veteran of World War II. His wife, the former Santina Gaetani, died in 1967. He leaves a […]

UTICA — Donald A. Tafel, 55, of 24 Jason St., a retired automobile mechanic and native of Turin died Thursday [March 18, 1971] in his home. The funeral will be at 2:30 p.m. Monday at the Heintz Funeral Home. Burial will be in Beaver Falls Cemetery. He is survived by two sisters, Mrs. Harry (Mildred) […]

Martin E. Hulka, 50, of 4611 20th St., N.W., Canton, died March 16 [1971] in University Hospital, Cleveland, from complications following heart surgery. Services were held Saturday in Reed Funeral Home, and burial was in Sunset Burial Park, Canton. Hulka, who worked at Will-Burt Co. from 1945-49 and lived in Orrville until he was employed […]

Lamar U. Coco, 47, died at 12:05 a.m., Thursday [March 4, 1971], in an Alexandria hospital. He was a native of Moreauville and a resident of Baton Rouge. He is survived by his wife, the former Natalie Fitzgerald; a daughter, Catherine Coco, and a son, Jeffery Lamar Coco, all of Baton Rouge; four brothers, Ronald […]

Funeral services for William H. “Pat” Bayne, 64, of 1100 S. 4th St., Monroe, will be at 10 a.m. Saturday in the chapel of Mulhearn’s Funeral Home of Monroe with Dr. Clifton Tennison officiating. Burial will be in Brownlee Cemetery in West Monroe. Mr. Bayne died Thursday morning [February 18, 1971] at St. Francis Hospital […]

Word has been received here of the death Feb. 13 [1971] of Howard L. Grigsby, 49, of Baltimore, Md., former Indianapolis resident. He was a former instructor of the Butler University Student Players, and of the drama group of the Athenaeum Turners for several years. Survivors include a son, John Michael Grigsby, and a daughter, […]