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Lester Gene Prewitt, age 88, passed away on Tuesday, October 15, 2013. He is survived by his daughter Janice Lewis, his son Richard “Reid” Prewitt, their families and his many friends. No services at this time.

Charles Frances (Bud) Hallam passed away peacefully at home on Oct. 12 [2013]. He was 91 when he reached the end of a long and happy life. Bud was born in Vesper, Oregon on Sept. 8, 1922 to Doris and Charles Hallam. Bud first moved to Vacaville with his family in 1938, and graduated from […]

Tommy Morres died peacefully [October 3, 2013] at the Joyce Goldenberg Hospice Residence with his loving wife and loved ones by his side. He was 90 years old. Tommy was the youngest of four children born to Constantine Charles and Mary Bruno Morres whose marriage was the first in the Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church on […]

The first Det One Marines landed in Baghdad on April 6, 2004. Fallujah had flared up only a short time before, with the killing and mutilation of the Blackwater contractors, and the Shi’a Sadrist rebellion was driving up from the south. There was plenty of work to be done.

Leonard H. Turnbull, 91, of Greer, died September 29, 2013. Born in Graniteville, SC, he was the son of W. C. R. and Eula Helen Glover Turnbull. Mr. Turnbull attended the University of South Carolina before entering the Marine Corps, serving during World War II in the Pacific Theater on Iwo Jima and other islands. […]

While there were a few exceptions (which is normal, individual Marines will invariably be sent to schools that open up at various times during a workup, either simply because the opportunity is there, or to fill a gap in capability that couldn’t be filled before), Det One’s individual training, or “schools phase,” ended July 1st, 2003.

SAN DIEGO — Henry Alcus Britt “Al,” born on a farm in rural Lincoln County, Mississippi on August 13, 1921, passed away on September 14, 2013, following a brief illness. Al was raised on the family farm where he supplemented his family diet by hunting squirrels and subsequently became an expert marksman. Following completion of […]

George Richard Jones, 88, of Cheyenne passed away September 11, 2013 in Cheyenne. George was born July 14, 1925, in Lawrence, Kan., moved to Fort Collins, Colorado, as a youth and graduated from Fort Collins High School. He was involved in sports and was President of the athletic club. George then enlisted in the U.S. […]

GLENS FALLS — Robert Allen “Coach” Addison, 90, went into the arms of the Lord on Friday, Sept. 6, 2013, at Glens Falls Hospital, surrounded by his loving family. Born Dec. 7, 1922, in Akron, Ohio, he was the son of the late Robert K. and Frances (Richards) Addison. After he graduated from Alliance High […]

John Thomas Rooney passed away peacefully at the age of 96 on September 6 [2013]. Born in rural Hansen, Nebraska on June 10, 1917, John later moved to Crawford, Nebraska where he helped with the family farm. Later, the family settled in Orin, Wyoming where John worked in the family-owned gas station, post office, and […]