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Henry T. Osowski died Monday, March 28, 2011, in the Burnt Tavern Rehabilitation Center in Brick, NJ. He was 92. Born in Harrison, NJ, he lived many years in North Arlington, NJ before moving to Brick 8 years ago. Henry is a retired iron worker with Local 11 and was a U.S. Marine Raider, serving […]

NEW MIDDLETOWN- Services will be held at 11 a.m. on Monday at the New Middletown chapel of Clemente Funeral Home for Howard C. O’Dea, 89, who passed away on Friday [February 25, 2011] at Sterling House of Salem after a short illness. Howard was born on June 5, 1921, and raised in Nebraska, son of […]

Gerald (Jerry) Arthur Obert was born Aug. 26, 1924 in Grand Rapids, Mich., to Blanche and Edgar Obert. He was raised on the family farm in Big Rapids, Mich. with seven brothers and sisters, Bill and Betty Obert, Big Rapids, Mich., Norm (deceased) and Adelline Obert, Big Rapids, Mich., Nina and Mid (deceased), Eldred, Big […]

Ken O’Donnell, age 85, Marine Raider, died peacefully at his home on Thursday, October 8, 2009, following a courageous battle with cancer. He was born on November 26, 1923, in Belle Fourche, South Dakota, to the late Michael Leroy O’Donnell and Gladys Marian Marks. He graduated from Merriman High School, Merriman, Nebraska, in 1941. Ken […]

Richard Arthur Orphey, 85, a resident of Bremerton, died in his home of natural causes on August 15, 2009. He was born in Hammond, Indiana on March 15, 1924 and was preceded in death by his wife Ginger in 1993. He attended schools in Hammond and graduated in 1942. He served in the United States […]

Joseph Fry Odle Jr., 88, of McComb, died Feb. 28, 2008, at Southwest Mississippi Regional Medical Center. Memorial services are 2 to 3 p.m. Sunday at Jones Family Funeral Services in McComb. The Rev. Fred Cook will officiate. Burial will be in Boca Raton Mausoleum in Boca Raton, Fla. Mr. Odle was born March 15, […]

Preacher Jerry Lee Orr, Jr., 85, of Hendersonville, left Pardee Memorial Hospital and arrived in Heaven Tuesday, February 26, 2008. He was born on November 28, 1922 and was a lifetime resident of Henderson County. A son of the late Jerry Lee Orr, Sr. and Ida Mae Davis Orr, he was preceded in death by […]

Fred Odette, age 87, of Flint, died Friday, January 25, 2008 at McLaren Regional Medical Center. Mr. Odette was born October 12, 1920 in Bay City, Michigan, the son of Owen and Josephine Odette. Fred served his country during W.W.II in the U.S. Marines with Edson’s Raiders, 1st Battalion, Company B in the Pacific Theater. […]

WHIDBEY, Wash. — Roy V. Owen, 84, Sgt. Major, USMC, (Ret.), formerly of Idaho Falls, died Oct. 22, 2007. He was born in Corvallis, Ore., on Oct. 23, 1923. He moved with his family to Idaho Falls and enlisted in the National Guard in 1939. He served in the U.S. Marine Corps from November 1941 […]

“The spirit was willing but the flesh was weak.” So were the last months of Stanley Roosevelt Owen of Van Buren, who entered this world on Dec. 8, 1923, to proud parents Theodore and Biddie Owen. He would be the first in a family of six children growing up in the Fort Smith and Van […]