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CUMBERLAND, MD —  MSgt. William S. ‘Bull’ Evans, 33, of Cresaptown, MD, died suddenly on Sunday, May 16, 1954 while stationed at the U.S. Naval Base in Yokosuka, Japan. At his request, his remains were cremated and buried at the American Military cemetery near Yokosuka, Japan. Born April 24, 1921, he was the son the […]

WOOSTER, O. INS – A 32-year-old Columbus man fell 275 feet to his death Monday [April 26, 1954] while working on the transmitting tower of Station WWST in Wooster. The victim was James G. Roberts, who was painting the tower at the time of the mishap. His brother, Jack, witnessed the accident. James plummeted to […]

Columbus Junction— Warren S. Dowson, 32, Columbus Junction, died Tuesday [April 20, 1954] at Pearl Harbor as the result of a diving accident. Dowson, who was a chief hospitalman in the Navy, was a victim of air embolism, according to word received here. This is a condition in which air bubbles enter the blood after […]

HOUSTON, Nov. 7 (AP)—Tom Loving, 43, of Corrigan, was killed last night [November 6, 1953] when struck by an auto as he crossed a Houston street.

Services will be at 2 p.m. Monday in the Midwest City Funeral Chapel for Ray Conrad Lemon, 31, of 2001 Pearson Drive, former Marine Raider, who died at his home Friday morning [October 9, 1953]. Burial will be in Memorial Park Cemetery. Lemon was born in Oklahoma City and attended the Capitol Hill High School. […]

Weekend accidents claimed at least 10 lives in Alabama, two of them In the Anniston area. There were nine traffic deaths and one fatality in a mine accident. Accident victims over the state included a Highway Patrolman, [Julian] Fred Draughon, 29, of Dothan. The highway patrolman, son of Asst. Dothan Police Chief Julian Draughon, and […]

DENVER (AP) – Murle B. Jones, a former Walla Walla, Wash., prison guard and his wife were found dead by authorities yesterday [September 21, 1953] after an apparent murder-suicide climax to an argument at the east edge of Denver. Jones had a gun in his hand.

Staff Sgt. Orlando A. Ciccone, beloved son of Mrs. Susan and Mr. Joseph Ciccone; devoted husband of Irene; brother of James, Carlo, Arthur, Frank, John, Anthony and Carmine. Killed in action in Korea, July 25, 1953. Reposing at Louis Ceraso Funeral Home, 158 S. Oxford Street, Brooklyn, Thursday, after 2 p.m. Funeral Saturday morning. Requiem […]

PALMDALE – (U.P.), Marine Major Stanley W. Robinson, 52, was dead on arrival at Palmdale Clinic Saturday [June 27, 1953] after being stricken with a heart attack while driving on Angeles Forest Highway. Robinson, a reserve officer, was on military leave from the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s office where he was a detective sergeant.

ANDERSON, June 25 – James R. Coker, 28, of Ypsilanti, Mich., died early this morning [June 25, 1953] from injuries he received in an automobile wreck in Ypsilanti earlier in the day. He was born and reared in Anderson County and had been in Ypsilanti for four weeks. He was a machinist by trade and […]