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Albin Dabrowski [May 5, 1963], late of 14832 Shepard Drive, Dolton, Ill., formerly South Chicago, beloved husband of Loretta, nee Sztuba; dear dad of Denise, Allen, Wayne, Neal, and Leslie Ann. Funeral Thursday, May 9, 9 a.m., from Stanley Wolkowiok Funeral Home, 8803 S. Commercial Avenue, to St. Jude the Apostle Church, 900 E. 154th […]

Laurence Christman, 45, a flight specialist for the Manned Spacecraft Center, died Sunday [May 5, 1963] after shooting himself accidentally at his Houston home.

CLARKSBURG, W. Va. (AP) Weary rescue crews, laboring deep inside a northern West Virginia coal mine, recovered bodies Friday of all 22 victims of Thursday night’s [April 25, 1963] gas-triggered explosion. The last man was found in the same section where 11 other miners had been discovered earlier in the day in the Compass No. […]

BARNESVILLE – Relatives have received word of the death which occurred in Washington, D.C., on Friday [April 19, 1963] of Walter Haggerty, husband of the former Kathryn Stewart of Barnesville. Mr. Haggerty succumbed following a brief illness and last rites will be held Tuesday at the Fort Meyer Chapel and interment will be made in […]

Marine Colonel Russell Duncan, 47-years-old, former resident of Joplin, died Wednesday [April 10, 1963] after suffering a heart attack at Camp Pendleton, Calif. Colonel Duncan had commanded the Seventh Marine Regiment at Camp Pendleton since March 29. He was a graduate of Joplin High School and Annapolis Naval Academy. He was the son of the […]

William J. Kyle, in Las Vegas, Nev., April 7 [1963], husband of Sally, father of Charles and Kathleen; also survived by father and three brothers.

A former general manager of the Raleigh-Wyoming Mining Co., which folded in 1961, was killed Friday [March 22, 1963] in a Tennessee traffic accident. Howard C. Human, 39, died when his car crashed into the rear of a gasoline truck near Jasper, Tenn. According to a former neighbor, Human, with his wife and child, lived […]

Edward Frank Doyle, retired Marine Corps lieutenant colonel who fought at Guadalcanal early in World War II, died yesterday, March 22, 1963 in the Veterans Hospital at Batavia. He was 64. Col. Doyle, whose home was at 433 Beach Ave., had recurring heart trouble for years after the war. He had been in the Buffalo […]

A man found shot in the back of the head early today on Quaker Ave. near 82nd St. was identified just before noon as Robert O. Burdett Jr. Detective Capt. L. W. Forrester said the slaying victim, about 41, formerly resided at O’Donnell. The identification was made by an aunt, Mrs. Ralph Burdett, at Franklin-Bartley […]

Norvell L. Kinnaman, 44, auto salesman, died at 2:30 p.m. Sunday [February 17, 1963] at his home, 1917 Connor Avenue, Joplin. He had been ill four years. Born at Picher in 1918, an a graduate of Grove High School, Kinnaman had resided in Joplin 15 years. He was a veteran of World War II, a […]