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Thanks to medical science and deep human love, the cornea of a dying 29-year-old Marine veteran, a former St. Petersburg resident, was transplanted and restored sight to a blind man Christmas morning. Few stories surpass that written to The Times by the late youth’s mother, Mrs. W. A. Bourget, Route Five, Hendersonville, N.C., former residents […]

Charles Konopka, 28, of 21 Second Street, Larksville, who served during the war with the First Marine Raiders and was wounded on Iwo Jima and at Guadalcanal, died yesterday morning [November 23, 1947] at 11:30 at the home of a brother, Benjamin Konopka of Collinsville, Conn.. A member of the Military Order of the Purple […]

Miami, Fla. – (AP) – A small, freakish hurricane left southeast Florida under the highest floodwater in 30 years before its center swirled out into the Atlantic yesterday, chased by Army and Navy aerial hurricane trackers. Damage from 71-mile winds was minor but hundreds of homes were isolated around Miami and Fort Lauderdale by record-breaking […]

At least six persons were dead today and five others were suffering injuries as the result of weekend accidents in Montana. The crushed body of war hero Patrick D. Fleming was found under a tractor near Deer Lodge yesterday. The Marine combat veteran, who won the Silver Star for gallantry in action In Pacific warfare, […]

Funeral services for John J. Quade, 23, Marine Corps veteran and former Rutgers student, of 519 Chilton Street, Elizabeth, who was fatally injured in an automobile accident at Reading, Pa., on Sunday [August 3, 1947], were to be held this afternoon at 2 o’clock from the August F. Schmidt Memorial Funeral Home, 139 Westfield Avenue, […]

PORTLAND, Ore., May 27—Brig. Gen. Evans F. Carlson, Marine hero and leader of the famed Carlson’s Raiders of World War II, died at Emmanuel Hospital here today [May 27, 1947] from a heart attack. He was 51. Carlson was brought to the hospital here last night from his Brightwood, Ore., home after suffering a heart […]

We record with sorrow the death of William Gregg Glenney, Ph. M. 2/c U.S.N. at Newport, R.I., on May 4, 1947. Gregg was the great-grandson of the Reverend William Henry Green, president of Princeton Theological Seminary, grandson of Professor William Libbey of Princeton and son of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Lester Glenney of Plainfield, N.J. […]

Funeral services for Jiggs Vickers, Megargel veteran of World War II who died [April 14, 1947] in a government hospital at Des Moines, Iowa, last week, were held Friday afternoon. The rites were conducted at the Megargel Methodist Church by the pastor, Rev. J. O. Little, assisted by Rev. L. A. Ballard, Megargel Baptist pastor. […]

Funeral for Henry G. Figg, 22, of 4244 River Park Drive, World War II veteran who fought with the Marines at Guam and Okinawa, will be held at 2 p.m. tomorrow at Bosse’s Chapel. Burial will be in Zachary Taylor National Cemetery. Figg, employed as a salesman at National Shirt Shop, died at 4:50 p.m. […]

The Navy Hospital, Santa Margarita Ranch, reported Tuesday that the five persons injured in an early Saturday morning automobile accident at Camp Pendleton are in a much improved condition. Of the five injured the only one remaining on the serious list is Mrs. Barbara Hotchkiss, wife of Chief Warrant Officer Herbert Hotchkiss, who is suffering […]