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Louis Lawrence Lust, 46, 2610 Deaton Street, died at 10:40 p.m., Monday [June 25, 1962], in a Lake Charles hospital. He died of a heart attack. Funeral services will be held at the University Methodist Church, at 4 p.m., Wednesday, with Rev. James L. Stovall, pastor officiating. Burial will be in the Prien Memorial Park […]

Saturday, June 23, 1962, Stanley [R. Byeseda], husband of Harriet Thompson; father of Sharon M. and Linda M.; son of Mrs. Antonia Byeseda; brother of Eddie, Virginia, Caroline and Margaret. Friends received at A. Staab & Sons Funeral Home, 34 Crafton Ave., Crafton. Blessing service Tuesday, June 26, at 10:30 a.m.

MIDDLETOWN TOWNSHIP – Russell Harry Frederick, 43, of 44 Dogwood Rd., died yesterday [June 17, 1962] at Riverview Hospital, Red Bank. Mr. Frederick served in the Marine Corps during World War II and was wounded in the South Pacific. He participated in the battles of Guadalcanal and the Solomon Islands. He was born in East […]

Services for former Akronite Charles E. Ashbee, 40, killed Friday [April 13, 1962] in an auto accident in Kansas City, Mo., will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday at the Prentice & Co. Funeral Home, 1154 Kenmore Blvd. The Rev. John D. Harkness will officiate, with burial in Greenlawn Cemetery. Born in Akron, Mr. Ashbee was […]

Mr. and Mrs. Everett Minard, 535 Dundee Ave., have just returned from Richmond, Va., where they attended funeral services for Herbert O. Hill, 39, a former resident of Waterloo, who died there on March 9 [1962]. Burial was at Richmond. Mr. Hill was born and reared in Waterloo and left here about 11 years ago. […]

MOUNT VERNON, Wash. (AP)—The body of Raymond G. Segale, 41, Seattle, was found in the crumpled wreck of his car at the foot of a 500-foot bluff Wednesday. He has been missing since Tuesday [November 21, 1961]. State Patrolman Henry Dean said the car apparently went off Alternate U.S Highway 99 at high speed about […]

Scotch Plains—Funeral services will be held tomorrow for Peter Paul Preuss of 1341 Graymill Dr., who died Wednesday [November 1, 1961] in the New England Baptist Hospital, Boston, after a short illness. He was a plastics engineer with Gilbert Plastics Inc., of Kenilworth. Born in New York, he had resided here since 1948. He leaves […]

S/Sgt. Roy Schwirtz, 40, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ernst Schwirtz of Minneapolis, formerly of Norwood, was killed in a one-car accident in California on August 12 [1961]. The accident occurred in Devil’s Gate Pass on Highway 395 near Bridgeport. Funeral services will be held at 1 p.m. Friday at McDivitt-Hauge Chapel, 2825 East Lake […]

Deaths on highways had sent the weekend Memorial Day death toll in Texas to at least 26 by early Monday. Traffic accidents claimed 15 lives. The Associated Press weekend violent death count started at 6 p.m. Friday. Robert Buller, 38, died in a one-car accident Sunday [May 29, 1961] south of Livingston, his home town.

Two Oakland men were killed and a third was injured earlier today [April 21, 1961] when their speeding auto skidded 150 feet sideways and crashed into a power pole at 14th Ave. and E. 30th St. The victims, who were pronounced dead at nearby Highland Hospital, are Donald A. Kane, 25, assistant manager of a […]