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Marine M/Sgt. Harold G. Klein, 42, a Southtown resident all of his life, died in Oahu, Hawaii, Monday [November 26, 1956] following a heart attack. The Marine, one of the Carlson Raiders of World War II fame, had been in the Marines 18 years and was to retire in two years. Military services will be […]

OPPAMA, Japan. (AP)—Marine M. Sgt. William J. McDonald of Danville, Pa., was killed last night [October 1, 1956] when his automobile overturned in Yokohama. McDonald was attached to a Marine Helicopter Transport Squadron station at Oppama. He is survived by his wife, Dorothy Barbara, and three children, William, Jr., 6, Barbara Alice, 4, and Francis […]

William I. Cummins, 41, a buyer for Grafners Wholesale Jewelers for the past 19 years, died yesterday [September 4, 1956] at Veterans Hospital in Oakland. Born in Library, Mr. Cummins was a graduate of South Hills High School and served in World War II. He had been a resident of 249 Dell Ave., Mt. Lebanon, […]

Paul Burnette Lethco, 36, of 5642 Linden Ave., died Sunday [June 15, 1956]. Surviving are the wife, Anona B. and parents, Mr. and Mrs. William C. Lethco. Interment in Knox County, Tenn. Mottell’s & Peek Mortuary in charge.

The body of George Greeley Miller, 35, Ventura, was found by 2 city employees yesterday [March 8, 1956] at 3:30 p.m. in a parked car in the Foster Park area north of Ventura. Miller is survived by his widow and 4 children, the youngest of whom was born Sunday night. Deputy Coroner Pat Sullivan said […]

John Crane-Baker, age 35, died March 7 [1956] of a heart attack while on a business trip in Mexico City. Beloved husband of Agnete Crane-Baker, father of John Whitaker and Thompson Stuart and brother of Thompson B. Crane. Surviving also is an aunt, Miss Mary Baker of Kinnelon, N.J. Date of interment to be announced […]

A Sherman Oaks motorist was killed yesterday [February 13, 1956] and three members of his family injured, one critically, when their automobile collided head-on with a truck on U.S. Highway 6, near Lancaster. Dead is Abba Segal, 31, of 4028 Stone Canyon Road. He died in Antelope Valley Hospital after the accident at Acton Junction. […]

Alfred McIlveen, former Marine staff sergeant who fought his way across Midway Island and Guadalcanal as a Carlson Raider during World War II, was prouder of the winning battle his mother fought on the home front than of his own citation for meritorious action. For while he was living on rice in Pacific island foxholes, […]

BELMONT, Nov. 15.—a 34-year-old machinist’s assistant, father of four children, was fatally injured this morning [November 15, 1955] at the Schick Products plant, 591 Quarry Road, when a piece of scrap metal flew out of a forge press he was helping operate and struck him in the chest. Pronounced dead on arrival at Community Hospital […]

WASHINGTON – Maj. Gen. Merritt A. Edson, retired Marine Corps officer and one-time head of the Vermont State Police, is dead of carbon monoxide poisoning. His wife found the body of the Marine hero fully clothed in the front seat of his car in the garage of their home yesterday [August 14, 1955]. Both doors […]