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Rites were held Monday morning in the chapel of Tustin Mortuary for Alfred C. James, 41, 157 Pacific St., who died Oct. 1 [1964]. James was one of seven to return safely out of 37 who volunteered to raise the American flag on battle-worn Iwo Jima in 1945. The Rev. Durward Dady, Greenville Country Church, […]

Master Sergeant John W. Jones, Marine Corps veteran of Pacific campaigns during World War II and of subsequent fighting during the Korean War, died suddenly at his home here Sunday evening [May 2, 1960]. Stationed on active duty with the Marine Corps recruiting office here, Sgt. Jones had been a member of the Corps for […]

Services for Charles E. Johnson, 33, a Cuyahoga Falls resident for the last two years, will be at 10 a.m. Monday in Youngstown’s St. Edward Church. Burial will be in Calvary Cemetery, Youngstown. Friends may call after 2 p.m. today at the McCauley Memorial Chapel at 230 Broadway, Youngstown. Mr. Johnson, who was a native […]

DENVER (AP) – Murle B. Jones, a former Walla Walla, Wash., prison guard and his wife were found dead by authorities yesterday [September 21, 1953] after an apparent murder-suicide climax to an argument at the east edge of Denver. Jones had a gun in his hand.

PIKEVILLE, Ky., May 22 (UP) — Mallard Williams, about 35, was held here today on a charge of murdering a. Marine on leave from Camp Lejeune, N. C. Augustus Justice, 32, was shot to death Saturday night [May 19, 1951]. The shooting occurred at Card Gap on Lick Creek, about 18 miles from Pikeville. At […]

Mrs. Martin Nelson, 1625 Pearl, has returned from Iraan, Texas, where she attended recent memorial services for a brother, Cpl. C. W. Johnson, a member of the 6th Marines [Division] who was killed on Okinawa June 21 [1945]. Corporal Johnson was a son of Mr. and Mrs. Guy Johnson, Iraan. Dr. Don Morris, president of […]

RANDOLPH—Graveside services for Corp. Kib Arnold Jacobson, who on June 19, 1945 was killed in action against the enemy in the service of his country at Okinawa, Ryuku Islands, will be conducted Sunday at 2 p.m. at the Randolph City Cemetery under the direction of Bishop Earl F. Passey, with military honors by Medicine Butte […]

Navy war casualties as released by the Office of War Information included the following from this area: Navy Dead [May 23, 1945]: Pfc. Claude Hollis Jernigan, USMCR, parents, Mr. and Mrs. Sam J. Jernigan, Teague.

Marine Sgt. Roland Johannes, 26, was killed at Okinawa May 21 [1945], according to word received yesterday by his wife, Margaret, 1933 N. 25th St. He had taken part also in the campaigns at Munda, New Georgia and Guam. Sgt. Johannes attended St. Michael’s Parochial School and Vocational High School and worked at Spiegel’s Printing […]

Cpl. Joseph A. Jablonicky, Jr., U.S.M.C., late of 1819 S. 11th Avenue, Maywood, killed in action at Okinawa Is., May 20, 1945, son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Jablonicky, brother of Mrs. Julia Novak, Mrs. Betty Werling, Mrs. Louise Olson, Lillian Charles and Charlotte. At rest Friday, April 8, after 2 p.m. Funeral Saturday, April […]