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On February 29, 1960, Dr. William Benjamin MacCracken died. Born on September 2, 1907, in Mt. Vernon, New York, where Dr. MacCracken also completed his primary education, he was graduated from New York University in 1928 and from Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1932. Following his internship at the Bellevue Hospital, he completed […]

Funeral services for Harvey C. Tucker, 40, who died yesterday [December 29. 1959] in Good Samaritan Hospital, will be at 11:30 a.m. tomorrow in Memory Chapel, A. L. Moore and Sons Mortuary, 333 W. Adams. The Rev. George Bruce will officiate. Burial will be in Double Butte Cemetery, Tempe. A native of Oklahoma, Mr. Tucker, […]

Services were held December 8 for Clifford Kandall, 520 Parkside Circle, Streamwood, in St. Matthews Lutheran Church, Chicago, with interment in Randhill Cemetery. He died December 5 [1959] at the age of 37 and leaves his wife, Betty Jean and three children.

Claude T. Guess, longtime resident Childress County resident, died at 3:25 p.m. Tuesday [November 17, 1959] in the Veterans Hospital at Waco after an illness of about two months. Funeral arrangements here are pending. Mr. Guess was a veteran of World War II and a member of the local Church of Christ. He is survived […]

In Castro Valley, October 22, 1959, Leon McCool, beloved husband of Jean McCool; loving father of Cheryl and Kathlene McCool of Castro Valley; brother of Sgt. W. A. McCool, U.S.A.F., Ollan McCool of Washington, D.C., Bob McCool of Iowa, Howard McCool of Illinois, and Mrs. Arline Galusha of Illinois. A member and Business Agent of […]

Leo Pomerleau, husband of Mrs. Doris E. Pomerleau of 25 Ledge Road, North Chelmsford, died unexpectedly last night [September 28, 1959] at his home. He was born in Lowell and was the son of the late Joseph Pomerleau and Mrs, Alphonse Gervais, who survives him. He was a veteran of World War II. He was […]

A coroner’s jury today cleared an 18-year-old Altadena youth in the gunshot slaying of his stepfather in the bedroom of the family home. After only 5 minutes of deliberation, the jury called the death of Robert L. Wilson, 35-year-old Jet Propulsion Laboratory employee, justifiable homicide. During testimony, the victim’s stepson, William R. Wilson, 18, recounted […]

Lebanon Junction, Ky., Aug. 21—A final verdict in the death of William Fiedler, 37, found dead [August 18, 1959] in City Jail here, is being withheld pending an autopsy report. Bullitt County Coroner Walter Keith, however, said he has tentatively ruled the death a suicide. Fiedler was jailed about noon Tuesday on a charge of […]

William Edward Scholz [August 15, 1959], 526 Lindberg Court, Elgin, husband of Cleomae, nee Johnson; father of William Woodley, Weyland, Wesley, and Wade; brother of Adeline Scholz and Mrs. Mildred Burt. Resting at chapel, 10240 Ewing Avenue, Chicago, where services will be held Tuesday morning at 10 o’clock. Burial in Chapel Hill Gardens.

A family fishing trip ended in tragedy for an Ada family late Saturday evening [July 11, 1959] when 33-year-old Harold J. Raplee drowned on Mill Creek, near Ravia. Raplee, his wife, Addie, and their two children were camping near the creek. Raplee and a friend, Bill Steele, were wading in shallow water, setting out the […]