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KANAB – Funeral services for Norris (Doc) MacDonald, 39, who was killed Thursday night [January 3, 1963] in an auto accident near Kanab, will be conducted Monday, 2 p.m., Kanab Slake House, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Born Sept. 7, 1923, Alton, Kane County, to Whitney and Amanda Robertson MacDonald. Married Roma Church […]

Albert Zakery Mooradian [August 13, 1962], beloved husband of Nellie of Van Nuys, father of Albert Mooradian Jr. of Van Nuys, brother of the Misses Mary and Victoria Mooradian of North Hollywood. Funeral services 1 p.m. Friday at Fogarty Mortuary, San Fernando. Interment 2:30 p.m. at VA Cemetery. Noble Chapel, directors.

Homer P. Meers, 39, of 4542 Albury Ave., died Sunday [December 4, 1960]. Surviving are wife, Kathryn; sons, James and Thomas; daughter, Linda; parents, Mr. and Mrs. Michael Meers; a brother and two sisters. Service was today, Mottell’s & Peek Mortuary.

HOUSTON (UPI) – A one-time U.S. Marine hero who fought his way through the jungles of Bougainville alongside the famed war dog Caesar was found dead in his parked car here Wednesday [May 11, 1960]. He was Rufus Mayo, about 39, of Montgomery, Ala. He had been living in Houston several months. Dr. Joseph A. […]

On February 29, 1960, Dr. William Benjamin MacCracken died. Born on September 2, 1907, in Mt. Vernon, New York, where Dr. MacCracken also completed his primary education, he was graduated from New York University in 1928 and from Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1932. Following his internship at the Bellevue Hospital, he completed […]

In Castro Valley, October 22, 1959, Leon McCool, beloved husband of Jean McCool; loving father of Cheryl and Kathlene McCool of Castro Valley; brother of Sgt. W. A. McCool, U.S.A.F., Ollan McCool of Washington, D.C., Bob McCool of Iowa, Howard McCool of Illinois, and Mrs. Arline Galusha of Illinois. A member and Business Agent of […]

OPPAMA, Japan. (AP)—Marine M. Sgt. William J. McDonald of Danville, Pa., was killed last night [October 1, 1956] when his automobile overturned in Yokohama. McDonald was attached to a Marine Helicopter Transport Squadron station at Oppama. He is survived by his wife, Dorothy Barbara, and three children, William, Jr., 6, Barbara Alice, 4, and Francis […]

The body of George Greeley Miller, 35, Ventura, was found by 2 city employees yesterday [March 8, 1956] at 3:30 p.m. in a parked car in the Foster Park area north of Ventura. Miller is survived by his widow and 4 children, the youngest of whom was born Sunday night. Deputy Coroner Pat Sullivan said […]

Alfred McIlveen, former Marine staff sergeant who fought his way across Midway Island and Guadalcanal as a Carlson Raider during World War II, was prouder of the winning battle his mother fought on the home front than of his own citation for meritorious action. For while he was living on rice in Pacific island foxholes, […]

Monday night, November 3, 1952 at 9 o’clock, at a local infirmary, Ewell Fred McCormick, Jr. Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Katherine Freeman McCormick; children Randy Keith and Steven Kent McCormick and Melody Lynn McCormick; parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. F. McCormick, Sr. of Crewe, Va.; brothers, John E. Leon, Earnest, and Lester McCormick of […]