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A memorial service will be held at 2 p.m. Sunday at 3829 Tahiti Lane, Modesto for Ira E. “Howard” Beasley, 60, who died Thursday [June 21, 1984] in Modesto. Inurnment will be private. Mr. Beasley was born in Coxbury, Tenn. He moved to California 37 years ago and to Modesto nine years ago. He was […]

Funeral services have been scheduled for 10 a.m. Saturday at Landry’s Funeral Home; Napoleonville, for Calvin J. Bergeron Sr., 57, who died at 5 p.m. Thursday [January 19, 1984]. Religious services have been scheduled immediately following at St. Anne’s Catholic Church, Napoleonville, with interment in the church cemetery. Visitation will be from 6-10 p.m. today […]

A 54-year-old Guerneville man died Monday [October 13, 1980] when the car he was servicing at a Santa Rosa shop slipped off a jack and crushed him. Ralph Hugh Brownell, a mechanic at Cantarutti Frame and Alignment on Maxwell Court in Santa Rosa, was pronounced dead shortly after 9:45 a.m. at Memorial Hospital. Police said […]

Retired Marine Corps Brig. Gen. Fred D. Beans, 73, a highly decorated combat veteran of World War II, died Saturday [September 13, 1980] at Anne Arundel General Hospital in Annapolis after a heart attack. Gen. Beans served in the South Pacific during the war and earned the Navy Cross in November 1943 while commanding the […]

William C. Brabham, director of the Iowa Conservation Commission, died of cancer Sunday [January 13, 1980] at Iowa Lutheran Hospital in Des Moines. Brabham, 58, of West Des Moines, had returned Friday from a trip to Orlando, Fla., where he had attended a meeting of the North American Game Breeders and Shooting Preserves Inc. He […]

We record with deep regret the passing [May 11, 1978] of our dear friend and Board member, Jack L. Bias. Our sincere sympathy to his wife, Beatrice, and son, Mitchell. Funeral services will be Sunday, May 14th at 1 p.m. at the Astoria Center of Israel, 27‐35 Crescent St., Astoria, N.Y. Morris Kemp, President Meyer […]

Col. Olin L. Beall, USMC (Ret.), 79, of Reno, died Sunday [November 6, 1977] in San Francisco. Beall enlisted in the Marines in Washington, D.C. on Aug. 5, 1917, and was discharged in 1957 in San Diego, Calif. He served in World War I, World War II and the Korean Conflict. A funeral is scheduled […]

Calvin J. Blackett, age 51, of 6317 17th Court South, West Palm Beach, died Monday, July 25, 1977. Resident 8 years, coming from Oscoda, Michigan. A disabled veteran, he served in the U.S. Marine Corps during World War II. He was a member of Sheet Metal Workers Local 130 West Palm Beach and of United […]

On Wed., May 11, 1977, Joseph E. Brotherly; beloved son of Gertrude Young Brotherly. Friends received at Wm. Slater & Sons, Inc., Virginia Ave. & Kearsarge St., Mt. Washington, until 9:15 a.m., Fri., May 13. Funeral Mass St. Mary of the Mount Church at 10 a.m.

Duke Baker, 51, former resident of Big Spring, died in Lubbock County Wednesday [February 29, 1976] of an accidental electrical shock. Services will be held 2 p.m. Friday at Berea Baptist Church with the Rev. Stan Blevins, pastor of the Oakwood Baptist Church of Lubbock, officiating. Burial will be in Trinity Memorial Park. Mr. Baker […]