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David K. Martin, 701 Sheridan Street, died at 2 a.m. Tuesday, June 3, 1952. He had been in ill health for some time. Mr. Martin, who was a technician at Divine Providence Hospital, was born in Galeton Oct. 3, 1919, the son of J. Kent and Gertrude Wetmore Martin. He was a member of the […]

SAN DIEGO, Cal., March 20 (AP)—Two men stationed at the Marine Corps recruit depot were killed today [March 20, 1952] when the automobile in which they were riding crashed into a Santa Fe Railway switch engine. Dead are Corp. Dean R. Myrick, 29, and Pfc. Ernest A. Sherf, 24. Patrolman Paul Hayes Jr. said Myrick […]

Four Long Beach area GIs were reported killed, one missing in action, and a sixth wounded, Korean casualty lists released by the Department of Defense in Washington disclosed yesterday. Sgt. William R. Moore, husband of Mrs. William R. Moore, 105 Corinthian Walk [was] reported killed [September 3, 1950] by the Marine Corps.

Age of [Uno] Elmer Mantyla, Toad Lake, Minn., who was killed [September 4, 1949] when his car overturned 15 miles east of Detroit Lakes, Minn., was 31, not 50 as reported in Tuesday editions of the Minneapolis Star.

SHELTON, June 3—Michael Megura, 24, of 104 Howard Avenue, Ansonia, a Marine veteran who had been decorated for wounds in the Pacific Theater committed suicide by hanging in Shelton police headquarters at 2:30 a.m. today [June 3, 1948]. Police Lieut. Emil Fortier said Megura was found hanging by his belt in a cell shortly after […]

Harbor Beach, Feb. 9—Angus W. Morrison, 24, World War II veteran, son of Mr. and Mrs. Don Morrison, died Sunday afternoon [February 8, 1948] in Harbor Beach Hospital after a brief illness. The remains are in the Morrison home, west of Harbor Beach, and will be removed at noon Wednesday to First Presbyterian Church for […]

Cpl. [Ralph E.] Moore, a son of Mr. and Mrs. Dick Moore, Pine Hills, was killed in action on Guam on July 29 [1945]. This week a Marine Corps reporter in the South Pacific told of Cpl. Moore’s one-man war against the Japs on the Orote Peninsula where he killed an estimated 50 Japs and […]

Funeral rites will be held Sunday at 4 p.m. in the Fred Cook Mortuary Chapel at Nitro for Marine Cpl. Billie Ray McNeely, 20, who was killed June 20, 1945 on Okinawa. Rev. Lloyd Myers will officiate and burial will be in Cunningham Memorial Park at St. Albans with American Legion Post 108 in charge. […]

The body of PFC Robert Francis Micklas, son of Mr. and Mrs. John Micklas, 7 Ford Street, Pittston, will arrive at the Lehigh Valley station, Pittston, Friday at 12:59. Pittston veterans’ units will escort the body to the home, from where the funeral will be held Saturday at 9, with a requiem mass at 9:30 […]

The children of St. Matthew’s Catholic Church will sing the solemn high mass of requiem at 9 a.m. Tuesday in the church for Sgt. Jack Malloy, 22-year-old Marine, who died from wounds received on Okinawa Island on May 21 [1945]. Sergeant Malloy, a native son of Southern California, and a graduate of Wilson High School, […]