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Laurence Christman, 45, a flight specialist for the Manned Spacecraft Center, died Sunday [May 5, 1963] after shooting himself accidentally at his Houston home.

CONCORD—Firemen in the Mt. Diablo Fire Protection District Saturday carried out their captain’s request for “one last ride” in a fire truck. The body of Capt. Don Chapman, 41, was escorted by more than 100 firemen of fire districts all over the Bay Area from the MacFarlane-Bryant Chapel to Memory Gardens, where he was buried. […]

Death by drowning came to a 43-year-old man at about 7:25 p.m. Monday [September 10, 1962] when he fell overboard into Cayuga Lake from his 12-foot runabout about 14 miles north of his home at 1020 East Shore Drive. Leland Catlin, according to Tompkins County Sheriff’s Deputy Byron Van Zile, had attempted to start his […]

Funeral services for Woodrow Cooper, 49, Stanaford, will be conducted at 1 p.m. Thursday in the Missionary Baptist Church of Stanaford with the Rev. Carl Gray and the Rev. C. W. Jones in charge. Burial will be in Sunset Memorial Park. He apparently was the victim of a heart attack while walking on a road […]

Funeral services were conducted Tuesday afternoon, in Jamestown for Allen A. Cass, 50, of Frewsburg, former Chautauqua County attorney, who died Sunday [April 9, 1961] in W.C.A. Hospital, Jamestown, a victim of cancer. Burial was in Frewsburg.

Gilbert Samuel Crum Jr., 36, died in Brewton Monday night [January 23, 1961]. Services will be held Wednesday at 11 a.m. at the Parnell Church. Burial will be in the church cemetery. Cope Funeral Home, Evergreen, directing. Surviving are the widow, Mrs. Pauline Crum, Frisco City; three sons, Douglas Gilbert, Donald Keith and Cheryl Lynn, […]

Roy B. Collins, age 33, May 22 [1958], of 11750 Nottingham. Husband of Lorraine; father of Greg and Karen; son of Mr. and Mrs. Roy H. Collins; brother of Kenneth. Funeral from the Verheyden Funeral Home, 16300 Mack at Outer Drive. Monday at 11.

Michael J. Concannon, suddenly, on May 20, 1958. Beloved brother of Julia Fertig, Jean Gecewicz, Rosanna Grenci, Terrence J. and Mark Concannon. Reposing at the Simonson Chapel, 119-04 Hillside Ave., Richmond Hill, L. I. Solemn Requiem Mass, Friday, May 23, 9 a.m., St. Elizabeth’s R. C. Church. Interment Long Island National Cemetery.

William I. Cummins, 41, a buyer for Grafners Wholesale Jewelers for the past 19 years, died yesterday [September 4, 1956] at Veterans Hospital in Oakland. Born in Library, Mr. Cummins was a graduate of South Hills High School and served in World War II. He had been a resident of 249 Dell Ave., Mt. Lebanon, […]

John Crane-Baker, age 35, died March 7 [1956] of a heart attack while on a business trip in Mexico City. Beloved husband of Agnete Crane-Baker, father of John Whitaker and Thompson Stuart and brother of Thompson B. Crane. Surviving also is an aunt, Miss Mary Baker of Kinnelon, N.J. Date of interment to be announced […]