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Lenoir City, Tenn., Aug. 29—A young newspaper publisher apparently gave his life trying to save his sweetheart in a motor boating tragedy that took four lives [August 27, 1949] on nearby Fort Loudoun Lake. The bodies were recovered a few hours after the accident. The arms of Lloyd Hickman, 26, associate publisher of the Lenoir […]

EAST LIVERPOOL, O.—Tech. Sgt. William K. Robinson, 26, of Martins Ferry, Steubenville recruiter for the Marine Corps, was killed about 2:25 this morning [May 27, 1949] when his car struck an abutment at a street intersection in nearby Wellsville. Columbiana County Coroner Ernest Sturgis said he died instantly of a broken neck. He was alone […]

Funeral services were held at St. Thomas Church Monday morning for LeRoy C. O’Leary, 25, Marine veteran who died last Thursday [February 24, 1949] in the Veterans’ hospital, Des Moines, after an illness. O’Leary was born in Chicago Oct. 31, 1923, and was married March 26, 1945, to Juanita Kliegl. He had been ill since […]

Requiem high mass for Stanley A. Buyakowski, a veteran of World War II, will be sung Friday at 9 a.m. in Sacred Heart of Jesus Church, Braddock. Mr. Buyakowski, 328, died Monday [December 20, 1948] in Braddock General Hospital. He served with the Sixth Marine Division nearly three years in the Pacific and was awarded […]

WEIRTON, W. Va., Aug 18 – (AP) – A steel-loaded tractor-trailer upset on a curve on Cove Hill Road here last night [August 17, 1948] causing fatal injuries to the driver, Edward Lee Cavett, 23, of Corliss Station, Pittsburgh, Pa.

The funeral of Walter Paczkoski, Jr. [July 21, 1948], twice-wounded veteran of World War 2, will take place Monday morning at 9 from the family home, 190 East Main Street. Glen Lyon. Interment will be In St Adalbert’s Cemetery, where members of the American Legion and Veterans of Foreign Wars Posts of Glen Lyon will […]

Wenona, Ill., July 9—(AP)—Stanley Debosik, 27, Oglesby, Ill., was killed last night [July 8, 1948] in a collision of his motorcycle and a truck near here. Charles Sullivan, 22, the truck driver, said Debosik ran into the side of the truck at an intersection on Route 51.

Sheridan, Wyo., June 18.—(AP)—Britton Jack Ellis of Edgerton was killed instantly and four passengers in his car shaken up when his machine left the highway and turned over eight miles south of Kaycee Thursday night [June 17, 1948]. Barbara Tyler, 15, and Yvonne Endersby, 13, both of Edgerton, and Virginia Hackworth, 16, and Oma Jean […]

SHELTON, June 3—Michael Megura, 24, of 104 Howard Avenue, Ansonia, a Marine veteran who had been decorated for wounds in the Pacific Theater committed suicide by hanging in Shelton police headquarters at 2:30 a.m. today [June 3, 1948]. Police Lieut. Emil Fortier said Megura was found hanging by his belt in a cell shortly after […]

Harbor Beach, Feb. 9—Angus W. Morrison, 24, World War II veteran, son of Mr. and Mrs. Don Morrison, died Sunday afternoon [February 8, 1948] in Harbor Beach Hospital after a brief illness. The remains are in the Morrison home, west of Harbor Beach, and will be removed at noon Wednesday to First Presbyterian Church for […]