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Thad “Carrol” Smith passed away on Friday, April 25, 2008 at home with his loving family at his bedside. He was also known to family and friends as Pappa, Gramps, Grandpa, T.C. Carrol and Honey. Carrol was born in Wannette, Oklahoma on July 17, 1922, to Thad and Dora Smith. He attended school in Collinsville, […]

Paul John Taylor, 89, a former Marine and active Catholic, died April 24, 2008, at his home in Corona. He was born Sept. 24, 1918, in Denver. Mr. Taylor lived in Chino Hills for 30 years, and moved to his daughter’s house in Corona last year. He served in the Marine Corps for 30 years, […]

LaVerne Joseph Hicks, 86, died, Friday, April 18, 2008 from complications of Alzheimer’s disease at the VA Home in Marshalltown, Iowa. Mr. Hicks was born in the Lacona area and lived in Des Moines most of his adult life. He was a veteran of the U.S. Marines, having served in WWII and awarded the Purple […]

EDWARDSBURG – Flavian Joseph Arseneau, 87, passed to his rest on Tuesday, April 8, 2008, in his home in Edwardsburg, MI. He had been ill with COPD and congestive heart failure for the past couple of months. Flavian was born Jan 3, 1921, in Kankakee, IL, to Paul and Irene (Chartier) Arseneau. He had lived […]

TAMPA – An 83-year-old Apollo Beach man died today [April 7, 2008] in a wreck on Interstate 75 just south of Bruce B. Downs Boulevard, according to the Florida Highway Patrol. Harland W. Davis was heading north on I-75 in the left lane about 8:30 a.m. when his Ford F-250 began to swerve. The Ford […]

HAMPTON ” James Edward Gilley, 84, died Saturday, March 29, 2008. He was preceded in death by his parents, Creed Flanary Gilley Sr. and Nancy Sword Gilley; two brothers, Creed Flanary Gilley Jr., and Paul Douglas Gilley; and his beloved wife of 57 years, Virginia Legg Gilley. Surviving to cherish his memory are his daughter, […]

CARLSBAD — Keith Harland Turner, 84, died Thursday, March 27, 2008. He is survived by his wife, Dana Turner. A memorial service will be held at 4 p.m. Saturday, April 5, at Kingdom Hall of Jehovah’s Witnesses, 1735 McCauley Lane in Carlsbad. Accu-Care Cremation is handling the arrangements.

U.S.M.C. Retired Norman Stevenson, 93, a resident of the Pines, died Saturday [March 22, 2008] at Wayne Memorial Hospital. Norman was born in Savannah, Ga., to the late Walter and Essie Stevenson. He was retired from 25 years of service to his country in the U.S. Marine Corps and with 20 years as a civil […]

Leonard Joseph “L.J.” Hope, 84, of Dalton, died Monday morning, March 10, 2008 at his residence. Leonard was born May 8, 1923 in Wylusing, Pa. He served his country honorably, being a veteran of World War II and a member of the Marine Raiders Battalion, an elite group he joined at the age of 16. […]

Services for LeRoy Jay Conklin, 84, Rochester, formerly of Logansport, will be held at 10:30 a.m. Thursday in Gundrum Funeral Home. He died at 12:15 a.m. Monday, March 3, 2008, in Logansport Memorial Hospital. Born Sept. 30, 1923, in Logansport, he was the son of Schuyler and Edna Mae Reeves Conklin. His first marriage was […]