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Ernest L. Ray, 29, climaxed a domestic quarrel with his wife by fatally shooting himself in the head while she was in a nearby room, West Los Angeles police reported yesterday. Mrs. Doris Ray said her husband went into the bedroom of their home at 3557 Stoner Ave., West Los Angeles, after they argued Saturday […]

WILLAMETTE — Funeral services for Master Sergeant Charles J. Rhoades (Johnny Gist), son of Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Gist, Grapevine Road, will be held Monday, April 6 at 1:30 p.m. from Holman and Hankins in Oregon City. Interment will be at Mt. View Cemetery with Marines in charge. Master Sgt. Rhoades, who was killed […]

Floyd Lanter, 30, Cynthiana, was killed when struck by the southbound Hummingbird, crack Louisville and Nashville passenger train, just east of the railroad crossing in Walton, Sunday night [January 4, 1953]. The victim was identified from a hunting license found in a pocket. Coroner Robert Brugh, who gave a verdict of accidental death, said the […]

The bodies of two men, both of whom apparently died of asphyxiation caused by gas fumes from home heaters, were discovered in their residences, one in West Barstow and the other in Oro Grande. One of the men died about Dec. 29 or 30, while the other [Smythe] had been dead since approximately Dec. 19 […]

WICHITA FALLS, Dec. 2 (Special) – The body of Stanley Cotton, 39, former Lubbock resident, was recovered today from the waters of Lake Wichita. Cotton and Elvin L. Hill, 28, also of Wichita Falls, disappeared Friday [November 29, 1957] while duck hunting. Hill’s body was recovered Sunday. Cotton, a salesman of household wares, lived in […]

Monday night, November 3, 1952 at 9 o’clock, at a local infirmary, Ewell Fred McCormick, Jr. Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Katherine Freeman McCormick; children Randy Keith and Steven Kent McCormick and Melody Lynn McCormick; parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. F. McCormick, Sr. of Crewe, Va.; brothers, John E. Leon, Earnest, and Lester McCormick of […]

Walter Penska of 7035 Ditman St., employed as a serviceman by the Philadelphia Gas Works for the last 12 years, died Friday September 12, 1952]. He was 36. Mr. Penska served with the 6th Marine Division in the South Pacific and was awarded the Purple Heart. He is survived by his wife, Edna; two children, […]

Tom Daniels of LaBarge was instantly killed Sunday morning [July 27, 1952] when the pickup truck he was driving at a high rate of speed left the highway just inside the Sublette County line near LaBarge and overturned several times. Daniels had just left his home in LaBarge, and the accident was witnessed by several […]

WATERTOWN — Maj. Wilfred S. LeFrancois, 51, of Carlsbad, Calif., formerly of Watertown and Syracuse, for 23 years with the U.S. Marines, died in a hospital in Japan on June 9 [1952] from gunshot wounds received in Korea where he was serving on combat duty. Maj. LeFrancois, hero of World War II when he was […]

David K. Martin, 701 Sheridan Street, died at 2 a.m. Tuesday, June 3, 1952. He had been in ill health for some time. Mr. Martin, who was a technician at Divine Providence Hospital, was born in Galeton Oct. 3, 1919, the son of J. Kent and Gertrude Wetmore Martin. He was a member of the […]