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  • DOZIER, JOSEPH S.

    Joseph S. Dozier, Jr., died at 2 p.m. Monday [September 19, 1960] in M. D. Anderson Hospital in Houston after being seriously ill with cancer for the past 3½ months. Services were held from the Schmidt Funeral Home Chapel at 4 p.m. on Wednesday. Interment was in Woodlawn Cemetery. Bro. Frank Fort officiated. Pallbearers were […]

  • DEDEAUX, GLENN R.

    Glenn Ray Dedeaux Sr., 29, plant superintendent of Dedeaux Packing Company, Gulfport, died at 6:40 p.m. Thursday [July 15, 1954] in the New Orleans Veterans Hospital following several years of failing health. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Ruth Durr Dedeaux; three children, Glenn Ray Jr., Kenneth Warren and Cathy Ann; his parents, Mr. […]

  • DOWSON, WARREN S.

    Columbus Junction— Warren S. Dowson, 32, Columbus Junction, died Tuesday [April 20, 1954] at Pearl Harbor as the result of a diving accident. Dowson, who was a chief hospitalman in the Navy, was a victim of air embolism, according to word received here. This is a condition in which air bubbles enter the blood after […]

  • DRAUGHON, JULIAN F.

    Weekend accidents claimed at least 10 lives in Alabama, two of them In the Anniston area. There were nine traffic deaths and one fatality in a mine accident. Accident victims over the state included a Highway Patrolman, [Julian] Fred Draughon, 29, of Dothan. The highway patrolman, son of Asst. Dothan Police Chief Julian Draughon, and […]

  • DANIELS, TOM R.

    Tom Daniels of LaBarge was instantly killed Sunday morning [July 27, 1952] when the pickup truck he was driving at a high rate of speed left the highway just inside the Sublette County line near LaBarge and overturned several times. Daniels had just left his home in LaBarge, and the accident was witnessed by several […]

  • DOWNS, WILLIAM J.

    AURORA, Ill., Dec. 20 (INS) – Mrs. Rosemary Downs of Aurora was acting as hostess at a Christmas party of telephone employees last night when she received word of her husband’s death in Korea. Her husband, Sgt. William J. Downs, was killed in action Dec. 8 [1950] in the rear guard action of the Seventh […]

  • DEBOSIK, STANLEY F.

    Wenona, Ill., July 9—(AP)—Stanley Debosik, 27, Oglesby, Ill., was killed last night [July 8, 1948] in a collision of his motorcycle and a truck near here. Charles Sullivan, 22, the truck driver, said Debosik ran into the side of the truck at an intersection on Route 51.

  • DALE, NELSON C., JR.

    CLINTON, N.Y. (UP) – Word has been received here today of the death at Chelsea (Mass.) Naval Hospital of Capt. Nelson C. Dale Jr., U.S. Marine Corps, from injuries suffered while leading his unit in the second day of battle for Okinawa. Dale, who won the Merrill award as outstanding college senior at Hamilton in […]

  • DOTSON, DONALD K.

    Minnesota Navy Dead [June 19, 1945]: Marine Pfc. Donald K. Dotson. Mother, Mrs. Grace Dotson, 1871 Grand Ave., St. Paul.

  • DUGAN, JAMES J., JR.

    P.F.C. James J. Dugan, Jr., 20, of the U.S. Marine Corps was killed in action April 6 [1945], at Okinawa, according to word received by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. James J. Dugan, of 58 Brewster Street, from the War Department. Jimmy, as he was known to his many friends, played on the Kingston High […]