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Services for Charles E. Johnson, 33, a Cuyahoga Falls resident for the last two years, will be at 10 a.m. Monday in Youngstown’s St. Edward Church. Burial will be in Calvary Cemetery, Youngstown. Friends may call after 2 p.m. today at the McCauley Memorial Chapel at 230 Broadway, Youngstown. Mr. Johnson, who was a native […]

NORFOLK, Va. (UP) – A Marine officer from Massachusetts died Tuesday [November 26, 1957] of injuries received when he threw himself on a live hand grenade to protect members of his training unit, the Navy disclosed. Navy spokesmen said 1st Lt. Gilbert L. Brown Jr. of 870 Belmont St., Watertown, Mass., died in Portsmouth Naval […]

LODA–Lyle K. Hubler, 36, of Paxton was killed about 11:45 p.m. Wednesday [November 6, 1957] in a train-car crash at the Illinois Central Railroad crossing a block south of the depot in Loda. Witnesses said his car apparently stalled on the tracks and was hit by a freight train. Trainmen said they had blown their […]

Lawrenceville, Oct. 24 (Staff) — Harry Bradley, 33, Lawrenceville, state highway officer, was fatally injured early this morning [October 24, 1957] when his car overturned here. The accident happened at 1:24 a.m. on 5th Street when the state officer swerved his car to avoid colliding with a taxicab driven by Ernest Pero, Lawrenceville, according to […]

Funeral services for Glenn Harold Garland, 36, were at the Catron Chapel Wednesday, with the Rev. John F. Reagan of the Methodist Church officiating. Military honors at the graveside were by the Whitefish National Guard and VFW Post 276. Pallbearers were John E. Alton, Tonkel L. Tonkelson, Odin P. Berger, Einar K. Kringlen, Fred A. […]

Ben K. Hall, beloved husband of Joy L. Anderson Hall of 418 Katherine St., North Side, accidentally, on Friday, April 19, 1957; son of Beulah Nelms Hunter and the late Owen B. Hall, and brother of Owen B. Jr. Friends may call at O’Brien’s, 3724 California, at Cooper Ave., North Side. Notice of funeral later.

MIDDLETOWN TOWNSHIP—James P. Alverson, 43, of 10 Bellevue Ave., Leonardo, died yesterday [January 30, 1957] in Monmouth Memorial Hospital, Long Branch. He was born in Newark. Mr. Alverson lived here 12 years. He was an engineer at Fort Monmouth. Mr. Alverson was a member of St. Agnes R. C. Church, Atlantic Highlands, and the Marine […]

FAIRMOUNT (CNS) – Clifton Turpin, 35, a lineman employed by Illinois Bell Telephone Co., died at 5:45 a.m. Thursday [January 17, 1957] at Cole Hospital, Champaign, where he had been a patient since Jan. 3. He had been in ill health about one year. He was the son of Mrs. Charles Copeland of Fairmount. The […]

Leonard J. Burk, 36, of Bridle Path, Bethlehem R. 2, died Tuesday [January 1, 1957] in Allentown Osteopathic Hospital. Burk, an ex-Marine, was a Purple Heart veteran of 23 battles in the Solomon Islands, during the Pacific campaign in World War II. He had a presidential and an admiral’s citation. Born in Bethlehem, he was […]

John Tadzik, 34, was found dead, apparently frozen to death [December 14, 1956], in his trailer located at the Golden Heart Trailer Court at 1916 Cushman St., Saturday morning. Tadzik, unemployed at the time of his death, was found by Frank Sexton of 323 Antoinette St., Lemeta when he came to check on the Tadzik […]