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Memorial committal services for Private First Class Harold F. Brown Jr. will be at 11 a.m. Thursday in Rose Hill Cemetery under direction of Street and Draper Funeral Home. Reverend John A. Wright will be the officiating minister. Brown was killed on Guam July 26, 1944, while serving with the First Raider Battalion, U.S. Marine […]

Scituate, Mass., June 9 (AP)—Four men of a party of six who set out at 1:30 a.m. today [June 9, 1955] on a fishing trip drowned when their 18-foot outboard motorboat capsized. The little craft was battered by rough water as it passed over a sandbar at the mouth of the North River. Two of […]

DOLTON – Funeral services for C. L. (Red) Hammond, 34, who died Friday [May 13, 1955] in Willow Creek, Calif., after a short illness, will be held at 1 p.m. Wednesday in the Bockman Funeral Home in Dolton. Burial will be in the Dolton Cemetery. Hammond, who formerly operated a bakery in Roseland and a […]

DeRidder, Nov. 25 (Special) – The body of Bruce Lamar Kellogg, corporal, USMC, arrived from Patuxent River, Maryland, Friday. Cpl. Kellog, 24, died Nov. 21 [1954] in a motorcycle accident. Funeral services will be held Saturday at 10 a.m. with the Rev. S. R. Brooks officiating. Burial will be in the Sugartown Cemetery with the […]

Funeral for William Lee Hankins, 33-year-old victim of a traffic accident in Sunset Beach, Sunday [August 1, 1954], will be held Friday, with service at 2:30 p.m. in Smith’s Mortuary Chapel, Huntington Beach. Born in Coffeyville, Kan., he had lived in Huntington Beach for several years before moving to the Lakewood area. A former employee […]

ATOKA—(Special) — Ralph Whalin, 29, of La Suer, Minn., died July 27 [1954] in a hospital in Heron Lake. Minn. He and his nine-year-old son, Joie, were in an automobile accident June 23; Joie is still in the hospital and not out of danger. Ralph is a former resident of Atoka and Mrs. Whalin is […]

Glenn Ray Dedeaux Sr., 29, plant superintendent of Dedeaux Packing Company, Gulfport, died at 6:40 p.m. Thursday [July 15, 1954] in the New Orleans Veterans Hospital following several years of failing health. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Ruth Durr Dedeaux; three children, Glenn Ray Jr., Kenneth Warren and Cathy Ann; his parents, Mr. […]

Faulkton, S.D., July 3 (AP)—Merlin Thompson, 30, who farms near here, was killed yesterday [July 2, 1954] when he was crushed between the box and frame of a truck. The mishap occurred on the William Hutchinson Sr. farm. Thompson and Hutchinson farmed together. Thompson had apparently been working on the truck hoist, Faulk County Sheriff […]

Ralph Lewis Kauffman, 31, drowned in the Smith River Saturday afternoon [June 19, 1954] while fishing. He resided at 1316 Gross Street, Indianola. He had completed two years at Humboldt State College where he was studying business administration. He was a member of the Accounting Club. He was a veteran of World War II. He […]

Thomas Campbell, 30, died yesterday [May 24, 1954] of injuries suffered in the head-on collision on U.S. Highway 50 in which Beach Musser, 31, of 6601 Willow Lane, Johnson County, was killed. The accident occurred about five and one-half miles west of Gardner. Campbell, who died at the University of Kansas Medical Center, was a […]