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Thomas Campbell, 30, died yesterday [May 24, 1954] of injuries suffered in the head-on collision on U.S. Highway 50 in which Beach Musser, 31, of 6601 Willow Lane, Johnson County, was killed. The accident occurred about five and one-half miles west of Gardner. Campbell, who died at the University of Kansas Medical Center, was a […]

Staff Sgt. Orlando A. Ciccone, beloved son of Mrs. Susan and Mr. Joseph Ciccone; devoted husband of Irene; brother of James, Carlo, Arthur, Frank, John, Anthony and Carmine. Killed in action in Korea, July 25, 1953. Reposing at Louis Ceraso Funeral Home, 158 S. Oxford Street, Brooklyn, Thursday, after 2 p.m. Funeral Saturday morning. Requiem […]

ANDERSON, June 25 – James R. Coker, 28, of Ypsilanti, Mich., died early this morning [June 25, 1953] from injuries he received in an automobile wreck in Ypsilanti earlier in the day. He was born and reared in Anderson County and had been in Ypsilanti for four weeks. He was a machinist by trade and […]

WICHITA FALLS, Dec. 2 (Special) – The body of Stanley Cotton, 39, former Lubbock resident, was recovered today from the waters of Lake Wichita. Cotton and Elvin L. Hill, 28, also of Wichita Falls, disappeared Friday [November 29, 1957] while duck hunting. Hill’s body was recovered Sunday. Cotton, a salesman of household wares, lived in […]

In this city, Dec. 7, 1951, Albert B. Cornish, Jr. of 406 Willis Avenue. Survived by his wife, Winifred Cornish; his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Albert B. Cornish, Sr.; one brother, Robert L. Cornish. Funeral Monday at 2 P.M. from the De Witt Funeral Home, 749 West Onondaga Street, with the L. Ernest Otter of […]

Marine T-Sgt. Daniel Carroll, 30, of Newark, World War II hero who was awarded the Silver Star for gallantry on New Georgia, was killed Dec. 7 [1950] in Korean action, according to word received Wednesday by his wife, Mrs. Lois Carroll. He was sent to the Korean Theater of war last July. Sgt. Carroll enlisted […]

Harvey Davis of Kirksville was found not guilty late yesterday by the circuit court jury which heard testimony in the case in which Davis was charged with feloniously assaulting Dale Carlyle in Kirksville on July 22, 1948. Carlyle died in a veterans’ hospital in Hines, Ill., on Oct. 13 [1949]. The verdict was as follows: […]

WEIRTON, W. Va., Aug 18 – (AP) – A steel-loaded tractor-trailer upset on a curve on Cove Hill Road here last night [August 17, 1948] causing fatal injuries to the driver, Edward Lee Cavett, 23, of Corliss Station, Pittsburgh, Pa.

PORTLAND, Ore., May 27—Brig. Gen. Evans F. Carlson, Marine hero and leader of the famed Carlson’s Raiders of World War II, died at Emmanuel Hospital here today [May 27, 1947] from a heart attack. He was 51. Carlson was brought to the hospital here last night from his Brightwood, Ore., home after suffering a heart […]

A 20-year-old Orleans race car pilot was killed in a spectacular crash at the Mitchell Speedway yesterday and six other persons, including two Indianapolis men, died in a wave of traffic accidents throughout the state during the weekend. The dead [included] George Crawley, 22, of Rolling Prairie. Crawley was killed [September 29, 1946] three miles […]