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Minnesota Navy Dead [June 19, 1945]: Marine Pfc. Donald K. Dotson. Mother, Mrs. Grace Dotson, 1871 Grand Ave., St. Paul.

Funeral arrangements for Cpl. Frank E. Wood, returned war veteran, have been set for 3 p.m. Wednesday at the Ogle & Little Home for Funerals. The body will arrive in Tipton at 1:40 p.m. Tuesday. Rev. Robert W. Morris, pastor of the West Street Christian Church, will be in charge of rites, with burial in […]

Concord—Word has been received of the death in action of Corporal Dominic Panetta, U.S. Marine Corps Reserve, 111 Concord Avenue, Lincoln, and who was well known locally. Corporal Panetta was killed in action [June 19, 1945] during an important engagement in the Southwest Pacific area and his name was carried on the recent casualty list […]

The body of PFC Robert Francis Micklas, son of Mr. and Mrs. John Micklas, 7 Ford Street, Pittston, will arrive at the Lehigh Valley station, Pittston, Friday at 12:59. Pittston veterans’ units will escort the body to the home, from where the funeral will be held Saturday at 9, with a requiem mass at 9:30 […]

A memorial service for Sgt. Griffis will be held Sunday afternoon, July 15, in the First Baptist Church at 6 p.m. James Maloy Post, the Legion, will observe the memorial and the Rev. Ward H. Crawford, pastor, will have the balance of the program. The sad news came to the Griffis family and Gouverneur the […]

Capt. Leonard W. Alford, son of Mrs. W. F. Alford of Garrett, died June 17 [1945] as a result of wounds received while fighting the Japs on Okinawa. Capt. Alford, who was 25, was serving with the U.S. Marine Corps, and had been awarded the Silver Star for gallantry in action at New Georgia in […]

Marine Pvt. Robert D. Spackman, a former star fullback on the West High School football team in Aurora, was killed in action June 17 [1945] on Okinawa, his parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. B. Spackman, 1445 Garfield Ave., Aurora, have been notified. A few days earlier, his parents received a letter he had written June […]

TYLER, Texas, Feb. 7. — Reburial services for Cpl. Joseph P. Holmes, USMC, son of Mr. and Mrs. Irvin Holmes, former Tyler residents, will be held at 3 p.m. Thursday at Thorndike-James Chapel. Re-burial will be in Rose Hill Cemetery. Corporal Holmes, killed in action on Okinawa, June 16, 1945, graduated from Tyler High School […]

Funeral services for Marine Sergeant Kenneth Laverne Thurmond of Hollandale, killed in action in World War II at Okinawa, will be conducted Sunday afternoon at 4 o’clock at the Hollandale Cemetery by the Rev. Hobert B. Hawkins of the Church of Christ of Greenville. Military rites will be conducted at the graveside by Robert Edwin […]

Requiem mass was said Thursday morning at San Xavier Mission for two brothers, Pfc. Stephen and Pfc. Raymond Carrillo, who were killed in action on Okinawa within three days of each other. Burial took place in San Xavier Cemetery. Stephen Carrillo, a Marine, died June 12, 1945, during the assault on Naha. His older brother, […]