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Funeral services for Billy S. Blair, age 37, of Houston were held there Friday morning at 10 a.m. He died in a Houston hospital Thursday [February 16, 1961] after a short illness. Graveside services for Mr. Blair were held at 2 p.m. Saturday in Grove Hill Memorial Park, Dallas. A native of Dallas, Mr. Blair […]

Major Oscar A. Bosma, 52, United States Marine Corps and a native of New Holstein, died at U.S. Naval Hospital, St. Alban’s, Long Island, N.Y., Thursday afternoon [October 27, 1960] following a long illness. He was born May 29, 1908, in New Holstein, the son of Mrs. Henry Dishaw, 2109 Broadway, New Holstein, and the […]

NORFOLK, Va. (UP) – A Marine officer from Massachusetts died Tuesday [November 26, 1957] of injuries received when he threw himself on a live hand grenade to protect members of his training unit, the Navy disclosed. Navy spokesmen said 1st Lt. Gilbert L. Brown Jr. of 870 Belmont St., Watertown, Mass., died in Portsmouth Naval […]

Lawrenceville, Oct. 24 (Staff) — Harry Bradley, 33, Lawrenceville, state highway officer, was fatally injured early this morning [October 24, 1957] when his car overturned here. The accident happened at 1:24 a.m. on 5th Street when the state officer swerved his car to avoid colliding with a taxicab driven by Ernest Pero, Lawrenceville, according to […]

Leonard J. Burk, 36, of Bridle Path, Bethlehem R. 2, died Tuesday [January 1, 1957] in Allentown Osteopathic Hospital. Burk, an ex-Marine, was a Purple Heart veteran of 23 battles in the Solomon Islands, during the Pacific campaign in World War II. He had a presidential and an admiral’s citation. Born in Bethlehem, he was […]

Memorial committal services for Private First Class Harold F. Brown Jr. will be at 11 a.m. Thursday in Rose Hill Cemetery under direction of Street and Draper Funeral Home. Reverend John A. Wright will be the officiating minister. Brown was killed on Guam July 26, 1944, while serving with the First Raider Battalion, U.S. Marine […]

Citations for gallantry, signed by President Harry S. Truman and Gen. Matthew B. Ridgeway, were read Saturday at services conducted for Sgt. Thomas Richard Bodell, at 36 E. 7th South. Sergeant Bodell, 26, decorated combat Marine who saw action in two wars, was killed in Korea June 10, 1951, while serving with the First Marine […]

Funeral services were held in Detroit Friday for Ray W. Bussey, 30, husband of the former Miss Kay Griffin of East Liverpool, who died Sunday [February 4, 1951] in the Los Angeles Veterans Hospital. Son-in-law of Mrs. F. E. Griffin of Lisbon St., he died from the effects of injuries suffered while with the Marines […]

A grandson of H. O. Beauchamp of the Pleasant Hill area died [Friday, March 17, 1950], in San Francisco. He was Howard Kenneth Beauchamp, age 26 years, and he died of a cerebral hemorrhage. He is survived by his parents, E. C. and Ruby (Bales) Beauchamp of San Francisco. Funeral services were held in the […]

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 […]