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Military services will be held Sunday afternoon at 2 o’clock from the chapel of Fails Funeral Service in Moss Point for L. D. Williams, 44, who died Thursday [February 7, 1963] in Kreole. Interment will be in Machpelah Cemetery, Pascagoula. Survivors are his widow, Mrs. Theresa Williams, three daughters, Mrs. Doris Wahl, Miss Katherine Williams, […]

Elgie Henry Wells, 52, died at 3 a.m. Thursday [February 7, 1963] in his residence, 7111 Second Street, Hitchcock. He was born March 27, 1910, in Arkansas, was a veteran of World War II, and a member of the Baptist Church in Hitchcock. Survivors include his wife, Muriel M.; three daughters, Sarah and Margaret Wells, […]

KANAB – Funeral services for Norris (Doc) MacDonald, 39, who was killed Thursday night [January 3, 1963] in an auto accident near Kanab, will be conducted Monday, 2 p.m., Kanab Slake House, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Born Sept. 7, 1923, Alton, Kane County, to Whitney and Amanda Robertson MacDonald. Married Roma Church […]

On December 22, 1962, [Chicago] Police Officer Paul Batson was on patrol with his partner heading eastbound on west Armitage Street. They witnessed a white Chevrolet convertible traveling on the wrong side of Armitage at a high rate of speed, which forced the officers’ vehicle into the curb. The officers gave chase, but the driver […]

CONCORD—Firemen in the Mt. Diablo Fire Protection District Saturday carried out their captain’s request for “one last ride” in a fire truck. The body of Capt. Don Chapman, 41, was escorted by more than 100 firemen of fire districts all over the Bay Area from the MacFarlane-Bryant Chapel to Memory Gardens, where he was buried. […]

WATERTOWN – Spencer V. Silverthorne of Beaver Falls, president of the Northern New York Trust Co. of Watertown, was killed in a plane crash near Homestead, Md. Friday [November 23, 1962]. He was enroute to a wedding in North Carolina when the four-engine turbo-prop plane in which he was riding to Augusta, Ga., from Newark, […]

ELKO (AP) – A two-car collision has taken the life of Robert J. Guisti, 38, of Elko, police said Wednesday. He was injured Tuesday afternoon when his car and a car driven by John Churchfield, 17, of Elko collided, police said. Guisti died Tuesday night [October 23, 1962] in an Elko hospital. Churchfield was cited […]

Death by drowning came to a 43-year-old man at about 7:25 p.m. Monday [September 10, 1962] when he fell overboard into Cayuga Lake from his 12-foot runabout about 14 miles north of his home at 1020 East Shore Drive. Leland Catlin, according to Tompkins County Sheriff’s Deputy Byron Van Zile, had attempted to start his […]

Albert Zakery Mooradian [August 13, 1962], beloved husband of Nellie of Van Nuys, father of Albert Mooradian Jr. of Van Nuys, brother of the Misses Mary and Victoria Mooradian of North Hollywood. Funeral services 1 p.m. Friday at Fogarty Mortuary, San Fernando. Interment 2:30 p.m. at VA Cemetery. Noble Chapel, directors.

Funeral services for Woodrow Cooper, 49, Stanaford, will be conducted at 1 p.m. Thursday in the Missionary Baptist Church of Stanaford with the Rev. Carl Gray and the Rev. C. W. Jones in charge. Burial will be in Sunset Memorial Park. He apparently was the victim of a heart attack while walking on a road […]