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William Charles Hoover, 38, of Niles drowned Saturday [June 6, 1959] in Christiana Lake, near Edwardsburg, when a boat overturned, tossing him, his 4-year-old son, Jimmy, his wife, and two others into the water. Another boat nearby picked up the adults except Hoover, who was trying to save his son. Both went down. A rescuer, […]

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) – Detective E. B. (Salty) Meals said an 18-year-old advertising firm employee admitted he shot and killed one of his employers Sunday night [February 22, 1959] to climax a jealous feud. Delano Fite told police he pumped two bullets into Everette I. Willhauk, 34, in his office. Fite said the shooting was […]

CAMBRIDGE – A verdict of suicide has been returned in the death of Herbert Schuster, 36-year-old Philadelphia machinist found fatally wounded at his parents’ home in nearby Hudson yesterday [November 30, 1958]. Dr. Elridge Wolfe, deputy medical examiner for Dorchester County, said today Schuster took his own life but no reason for the act was […]

PORT ROYAL, Pa. (AP) – a 32-year-old stock car race driver was fatally injured Monday [September 1, 1958] when his auto turned over on a curve during a race at the 104th annual Juniata County fair here. Dr. Robert Stoner, Juniata County coroner, identified the victim as Harold Hoose of Troy, Pa. He said Hoose […]

HOUSTON, Tex., Sept. 29—Edward Adolphe, public relations consultant and former New York newspaperman, died this morning [July 29, 1958] of a heart attack at his home here. He was 48 years old. A 1931 graduate of the Columbia University School of Journalism, he became a reporter for The Providence Journal and from 1933 to 1939 […]

Roy B. Collins, age 33, May 22 [1958], of 11750 Nottingham. Husband of Lorraine; father of Greg and Karen; son of Mr. and Mrs. Roy H. Collins; brother of Kenneth. Funeral from the Verheyden Funeral Home, 16300 Mack at Outer Drive. Monday at 11.

Michael J. Concannon, suddenly, on May 20, 1958. Beloved brother of Julia Fertig, Jean Gecewicz, Rosanna Grenci, Terrence J. and Mark Concannon. Reposing at the Simonson Chapel, 119-04 Hillside Ave., Richmond Hill, L. I. Solemn Requiem Mass, Friday, May 23, 9 a.m., St. Elizabeth’s R. C. Church. Interment Long Island National Cemetery.

Funeral services will be held at 4 p.m. Sunday for Jack Wimbish, 34-year-old Shreveport attorney who took his own life yesterday morning [April 10, 1958] by shooting himself with a shotgun. Services will be held at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church with the Rev. Meade Brown, rector, officiating, assisted by the Rev. Ira Flowers of Mangum […]

STE. GENEVIEVE, Mo., April 7—William Wehner, an electric utility employee, was electrocuted Saturday [April 5, 1958] when repairing lines blown down at Brewer, 15 miles south of here, during a violent storm a short time earlier. Wehner, 35 years old, was found unconscious on a pole near a 7,200-volt line. He died several hours later […]

Separate fatal accidents in two counties in the Lawton Highway patrol district Sunday helped boost the state’s skyrocketing 1958 traffic fatality toll to 120 deaths, 15 more than at this time last year. Elsewhere in the state, three persons were killed as a result of traffic crashes Saturday and Sunday near Oklahoma City, Shawnee and […]