obituary-e Category

WASHINGTON – Maj. Gen. Merritt A. Edson, retired Marine Corps officer and one-time head of the Vermont State Police, is dead of carbon monoxide poisoning. His wife found the body of the Marine hero fully clothed in the front seat of his car in the garage of their home yesterday [August 14, 1955]. Both doors […]

CUMBERLAND, MD —  MSgt. William S. ‘Bull’ Evans, 33, of Cresaptown, MD, died suddenly on Sunday, May 16, 1954 while stationed at the U.S. Naval Base in Yokosuka, Japan. At his request, his remains were cremated and buried at the American Military cemetery near Yokosuka, Japan. Born April 24, 1921, he was the son the […]

A Sandia Base soldier was killed in a two-car collision at 8:40 Friday night [March 1, 1952] 16 miles west of Vaughn. The victim was Lt. Harold Emree, 28. Emree was a passenger in a car driven by Cpl. Robert G. Ballard, who is in Sandia Base Hospital along with two other passengers, Sgt William […]

Sheridan, Wyo., June 18.—(AP)—Britton Jack Ellis of Edgerton was killed instantly and four passengers in his car shaken up when his machine left the highway and turned over eight miles south of Kaycee Thursday night [June 17, 1948]. Barbara Tyler, 15, and Yvonne Endersby, 13, both of Edgerton, and Virginia Hackworth, 16, and Oma Jean […]

Columbus, March 23—Funeral services for Corporal Carl Frederick Eder, Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. Carl F. Eder of near Columbus, will be conducted at 2 p.m. Saturday in the chapel of the Columbus funeral home. The Rev. John Howlett of the Columbus Congregational Church will officiate. Corporal Eder was killed May 20, 1945, in […]

An Oakland member of the Fourth Marine Raiders, Cpl. Max L. Evans, 23, was killed in action July 29 [1944] on Guam, the Navy has notified his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Evans of 2507 Scenic Avenue. Evans, who enlisted in September, 1942, had been overseas for 13 months. Formerly he was a member […]

The Navy Department has notified Mrs. Helen Engel, Indiana, R. D. 3, that her son, Robert F. Engel, was killed in action on July 21, 1944, at Guam. He is survived by his mother and father, Mr. and Mrs. F. H. Engel, and one sister, Mrs. Laberna Buchanan.

DETROIT—Sgt. Arthur B. Ervin, son of Mrs. W. B. Meek, was killed in action [July 5, 1944], according to a message received by her Wednesday, the date and place not being revealed for military reasons. His wife, the former Miss Oneda Goode, whom he married in July, 1943, lives in Los Angeles, Calif., and he […]

Private First Class Ernest A. Elder Jr., USMC, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest A. Elder, 1405 Yale Avenue, was killed in action in the Southwest Pacific February 9 [1944]. Private Elder was born in Salt Lake City March 21, 1925, a son of Ernest A. and LaVon D. Elder. He was educated in Salt […]

KEMPTON, (PNS)–Mr. and Mrs. F. E. Eggenberger, of Kempton, were notified Tuesday that their son, Philip, who was overseas with the Marines, was killed in a hunting expedition [September 26, 1943]. The message stated a letter would follow. Their youngest son, he graduated from Kempton High School in 1939. He was prominent in all school […]