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Alaska resident Mr. John Thomas Covlasky, 91, passed away on Feb. 2, 2015. Celebration of Life will be held at noon on Friday, Feb. 6, 2015, at Summit Worship Center, 125 Riley Ave. in Wasilla, Alaska. John will be buried at Fort Richardson National Cemetery at a later date. Arrangements were cared for by Valley […]

Thomas P. Clack, 92, of Elk Rapids, passed away Jan. 13, 2015. Arrangements are entrusted to Covell Funeral Home, Elk Rapids.

Erland Edward Coombs passed away peacefully on Saturday, November 22, 2014 at the Maine Veterans Home in Scarborough. He was born in Franklin, Maine on March 14, 1922, a son of Forest and Celia (Fernald) Coombs. He attended local schools and upon graduation worked in the woods with his father. With World War II looming, […]

Lewis (Jim) Callihan, beloved husband of 29 years of marriage to Connie Callihan, passed away on October 9, 2014. Jim was born on December 27, 1924 in McCaysville, Georgia to Grady Callihan and Carrie (Underwood) Callihan. He served 21 years in the United States Marine Corps and was honored with many decorations including the Purple […]

RIDGEWOOD – Glenorchy J. Campbell, 101, died on July 4 [2014]. A longtime resident of the Ridgewood, “Glen” was born in New York City on May 1, 1913, to Glenorchy and Mary Ann (O’Neill) Campbell, immigrants from Edinburgh, Scotland and County Clare, Ireland respectively. Raised in Harlem and in the Highbridge section of the Bronx, […]

His young son, Butch, asked, “How’d you get to be such a fighter, Pop?” Alfred [May 4, 2014] explained that growing up during the Depression, his family moved a lot. Being the “new kids,” he and his older brother found themselves back-to-back, fighting themselves out of playgrounds a lot! Good at it he became, becoming […]

John Thomas Colletti, retired Army captain, died February 25, 2014 at his daughter’s home in Calabash, NC. He was 90. Born in Brooklyn, New York in 1923, Capt. Colletti served 8 years in the United States Marine Corps, first with the 4th Raider Battalion, then later with the 6th Amphibian Tractor Battalion in the landings […]

Leon R. Chapman, 93, of Paradise, died Wednesday, Jan. 1, 2014, in Paradise. Arrangements are under the direction of Paradise Chapel of the Pines.

The body of an elderly Tarentum man who may have been dead for weeks was found on Thursday [December 26, 2013] inside his apartment in a public housing high-rise. Nicholas Cognito, [89], was found inside his locked, third-floor apartment in Rachel Carson Hall, Second Avenue at Wood Street, said Allegheny County Public Housing Authority police […]

John Grier Crawford, 90, a resident of Harrisonburg, passed away on Sunday, December 22, 2013, at Rockingham Memorial Hospital. He was born, on June 22, 1923, in Cooleemee, N.C., and was a son of the late John G. Crawford Sr. and Lola Carter Crawford. John was a graduate of High Point College in High Point, […]