obituary-s Category

A memorial service for John P. (Bud) Salmon, 48, much-decorated Marine colonel and electrical company executive who died yesterday afternoon [December 13, 1966] after a short illness, will be conducted at 1 p.m. tomorrow in the Park Central Presbyterian Church. Burial will be in Arlington National Cemetery. There will be no calling hours. Serving with […]

Martin L. Shifflett, 48, of 814 Muhlenberg St., died [November 26, 1966] in the Reading Hospital, where he had been a patient since Nov. 13. Born in Bunker Hill, W. Va., he was a son of the late Ephriam and Mary (Clift) Shifflet. A U.S. Marine Corps veteran of World War II he was employed […]

George W. Stockley [January 29, 1965], beloved husband of Sharon A.; father of April H. and Jennifer A. Stockley; son of Olive K. Grill; brother of Rita Fitzgerald; grandson of Carolyn Steele. Services Tuesday, 12 noon at Utter-McKinley Wilshire Mortuary, 444 S. Vermont. Interment Forest Lawn-Glendale.

GENEVA – Frederick J. Salone, 45, formerly of this city and a veteran of World War II died Tuesday, Aug. 18, 1964 in Lansdale, Pa., shortly after returning from a family reunion in this city. In Lansdale, Salone lived at 315 W. 5th St. He was one of the sons of Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas […]

William W. Schreiber, 40, of 3701 West 96th, Overland Park, was pronounced dead late yesterday [June 6, 1963] at Providence Hospital. He apparently had suffered a heart attack at the Katz Drugstore, 954 Minnesota Avenue, Kansas City, Kansas, where he had been manager three years. Mr. Schreiber was born in Tulsa and moved to Kansas […]

WATERTOWN – Spencer V. Silverthorne of Beaver Falls, president of the Northern New York Trust Co. of Watertown, was killed in a plane crash near Homestead, Md. Friday [November 23, 1962]. He was enroute to a wedding in North Carolina when the four-engine turbo-prop plane in which he was riding to Augusta, Ga., from Newark, […]

MOUNT VERNON, Wash. (AP)—The body of Raymond G. Segale, 41, Seattle, was found in the crumpled wreck of his car at the foot of a 500-foot bluff Wednesday. He has been missing since Tuesday [November 21, 1961]. State Patrolman Henry Dean said the car apparently went off Alternate U.S Highway 99 at high speed about […]

S/Sgt. Roy Schwirtz, 40, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ernst Schwirtz of Minneapolis, formerly of Norwood, was killed in a one-car accident in California on August 12 [1961]. The accident occurred in Devil’s Gate Pass on Highway 395 near Bridgeport. Funeral services will be held at 1 p.m. Friday at McDivitt-Hauge Chapel, 2825 East Lake […]

Two Oakland men were killed and a third was injured earlier today [April 21, 1961] when their speeding auto skidded 150 feet sideways and crashed into a power pole at 14th Ave. and E. 30th St. The victims, who were pronounced dead at nearby Highland Hospital, are Donald A. Kane, 25, assistant manager of a […]

YREKA – Don Spurlock, postmaster here since 1951, died at San Francisco Veterans Hospital Saturday morning [October 22, 1960]. He was taken there September 21. Spurlock, 37, was born in Nampa, Idaho. The family moved to Yreka in 1933. He was graduated from Yreka High School and attended Yuba Junior College, Marysville, and the University […]