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CLARKSBURG, W. Va. (AP) Weary rescue crews, laboring deep inside a northern West Virginia coal mine, recovered bodies Friday of all 22 victims of Thursday night’s [April 25, 1963] gas-triggered explosion. The last man was found in the same section where 11 other miners had been discovered earlier in the day in the Compass No. […]

MIDDLETOWN TOWNSHIP – Russell Harry Frederick, 43, of 44 Dogwood Rd., died yesterday [June 17, 1962] at Riverview Hospital, Red Bank. Mr. Frederick served in the Marine Corps during World War II and was wounded in the South Pacific. He participated in the battles of Guadalcanal and the Solomon Islands. He was born in East […]

Raymond Freeman of Route 3, Bryan, a lifelong resident of Brazos County, died at 6 AM Wednesday [February 1, 1961] at his home. Mr. Freeman, who was 43 years old, had been paralyzed since June 7, 1960, when he was knocked into a ditch while on the job with R. B. Butler Construction Co. Funeral […]

Anthony D. Fama Sr., 40, of 7445 Cedar Ave., Pennsauken, died Sunday [October 23, 1960] in Cherry Hill Hospital, Delaware Township. He was an employee of Metal Edge Industries and a veteran of World War II. Surviving are his wife, Jean; two sons, Carman and Anthony Jr., and two daughters, Marianne and Teresa, at home; […]

Lebanon Junction, Ky., Aug. 21—A final verdict in the death of William Fiedler, 37, found dead [August 18, 1959] in City Jail here, is being withheld pending an autopsy report. Bullitt County Coroner Walter Keith, however, said he has tentatively ruled the death a suicide. Fiedler was jailed about noon Tuesday on a charge of […]

At least six persons were dead today and five others were suffering injuries as the result of weekend accidents in Montana. The crushed body of war hero Patrick D. Fleming was found under a tractor near Deer Lodge yesterday. The Marine combat veteran, who won the Silver Star for gallantry in action In Pacific warfare, […]

Funeral for Henry G. Figg, 22, of 4244 River Park Drive, World War II veteran who fought with the Marines at Guam and Okinawa, will be held at 2 p.m. tomorrow at Bosse’s Chapel. Burial will be in Zachary Taylor National Cemetery. Figg, employed as a salesman at National Shirt Shop, died at 4:50 p.m. […]

The first Hancock County man reported to have died in the bloody battle of Okinawa is Marine Pfc. William G. Frost. The 20-year-old Marine died in the deadly Pacific island struggle May 25 [1945], according to a War Department message received by his mother, Mrs. Ethel Arthur, Route 1, Greenfield, on Monday. No details of […]

Rosary for Pfc. Hillary Claude Frank, who died at Okinawa May 21, 1945, when he was 20, will be read at 7:30 p.m. today in the chapel of Armstrong Family Mortuary. High Requiem Mass will be celebrated tomorrow at 9 a.m. in St. Columbkille Catholic Church. Born in Idaho Falls, Ida., he came to Los […]

Marine Pfc. Laurence A. Fleck, 23, was killed on Okinawa May 20 [1945], his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Francis W. Fleck, 1094 Eleventh Avenue SE, have been notified. Fleck entered service in September, 1942, a year after graduation from Marshall High School. He was employed by the Martin Ware Co. prior to his enlistment. A […]