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Concordia, Kas., Nov. 26—(UP)—Ice on Highway 81 caused a fatal car accident 15 miles south of Concordia yesterday [November 25, 1951]. The victim was Orlando Fred Gallegos, 27-year-old soldier at Fort Riley. His car skidded and overturned.

Lt. James Albert Gleaves Jr., 28, of Donelson, declared dead officially yesterday, was safe when he parachuted into enemy territory after being shot down over Korea in 1951. Lieutenant Gleaves’ father, James A. Gleaves Sr. of Overhill Drive, Donelson, received a wire notifying him of the Marine Corps’ declaration of his son’s death from Gen. […]

War struck again at the same family for the second time in less than a decade when Staff Sergeant Gordon Garner, 29, U.S. Marine Corps, was killed in action in Korea. His father, Stanley S. Garner, widely known merchant and former member of the Virginia House of Delegates, received a telegram yesterday at his home, […]

Robert Gores, 21, Burlington, was killed yesterday [October 23, 1949] when the motorcycle he was riding crashed into an automobile at the intersection of two county trunk roads three miles south of Kenosha. None of the occupants of the car was hurt seriously.

We record with sorrow the death of William Gregg Glenney, Ph. M. 2/c U.S.N. at Newport, R.I., on May 4, 1947. Gregg was the great-grandson of the Reverend William Henry Green, president of Princeton Theological Seminary, grandson of Professor William Libbey of Princeton and son of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Lester Glenney of Plainfield, N.J. […]

With deepest sorrow we report to his classmates and friends the death of Dick Goheen by his own hand on March 17 [1946] in New York. Dick was born in Venguria, India, in 1914, and lived in that country until he came to Lawrenceville to prepare for Princeton. Dick’s contribution to our class and college […]

A memorial service for Sgt. Griffis will be held Sunday afternoon, July 15, in the First Baptist Church at 6 p.m. James Maloy Post, the Legion, will observe the memorial and the Rev. Ward H. Crawford, pastor, will have the balance of the program. The sad news came to the Griffis family and Gouverneur the […]

One of the few First Marine Raiders to survive all the major battles of the South Pacific, Pfc. George Winslow Galgano of 214 North Austin Boulevard was killed in action on June 11 [1945] at Okinawa. Enlisting while residing in Chicago three years ago, Pfc. Galgano saw 30 months of decisive action during which most […]

Reburial services for Cpl. Robert Earl Grant, son of Mr. and Mrs. Matthew H. Grant, Route 1, Fort Atkinson, former Janesville residents, will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday at the Reining Funeral Home here. The Rev. Alban G. Tippins, pastor of St. John’s Community Church, Oakland, will officiate and burial will be in Milton […]

Major Bernard W. Green, 26, U.S. Marine Corps, son of Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Green, of Gradyville, was killed in action April 15 [1945], on Okinawa. He was awarded the Silver Star medal last July for holding the beachhead at Guam with his unit in the face of intensive enemy fire until reinforcements arrived. In […]