obituary-s Category

MELROSE – Mr. Robert D. Sturgeon, 39, promoter of three popular Orlando shows, was killed early yesterday [June 10, 1960] when his convertible went off the road near here, struck a ditch and turned over. A passenger, John McDowall, 22, Army man from Gainesville, Sturgeon’s nephew, was in critical condition in a Gainesville hospital. He […]

William Edward Scholz [August 15, 1959], 526 Lindberg Court, Elgin, husband of Cleomae, nee Johnson; father of William Woodley, Weyland, Wesley, and Wade; brother of Adeline Scholz and Mrs. Mildred Burt. Resting at chapel, 10240 Ewing Avenue, Chicago, where services will be held Tuesday morning at 10 o’clock. Burial in Chapel Hill Gardens.

CAMBRIDGE – A verdict of suicide has been returned in the death of Herbert Schuster, 36-year-old Philadelphia machinist found fatally wounded at his parents’ home in nearby Hudson yesterday [November 30, 1958]. Dr. Elridge Wolfe, deputy medical examiner for Dorchester County, said today Schuster took his own life but no reason for the act was […]

A Sherman Oaks motorist was killed yesterday [February 13, 1956] and three members of his family injured, one critically, when their automobile collided head-on with a truck on U.S. Highway 6, near Lancaster. Dead is Abba Segal, 31, of 4028 Stone Canyon Road. He died in Antelope Valley Hospital after the accident at Acton Junction. […]

BELMONT, Nov. 15.—a 34-year-old machinist’s assistant, father of four children, was fatally injured this morning [November 15, 1955] at the Schick Products plant, 591 Quarry Road, when a piece of scrap metal flew out of a forge press he was helping operate and struck him in the chest. Pronounced dead on arrival at Community Hospital […]

Scituate, Mass., June 9 (AP)—Four men of a party of six who set out at 1:30 a.m. today [June 9, 1955] on a fishing trip drowned when their 18-foot outboard motorboat capsized. The little craft was battered by rough water as it passed over a sandbar at the mouth of the North River. Two of […]

The bodies of two men, both of whom apparently died of asphyxiation caused by gas fumes from home heaters, were discovered in their residences, one in West Barstow and the other in Oro Grande. One of the men died about Dec. 29 or 30, while the other [Smythe] had been dead since approximately Dec. 19 […]

WASHINGTON, Oct. 14 (AP) – The Department of Defense has announced the following Southern California casualties in the Korean area: Killed in action [September 26, 1950]: S/Sgt. Magnus D. Schone, Marine Corps, husband of Mrs. Magnus D. Schone, P.O. Box 748, Solana Beach.

Twenty-one more Marylanders—including nine Baltimoreans—were reported as Korean casualties yesterday by the Department of Defense. Five men were listed as killed in action, 3 as having died of wounds, 12 wounded and 1 missing in action. Included on the department’s one hundred and eighteenth Korean casualty report were: Killed in action [September 24, 1950]: Staff […]

CAMP LEJEUNE, July 19 – (UP) – Death struck three persons here within 48 hours, the MP Lejeune public information office revealed today. One of the dead hanged himself, one was struck by lightning and another died of a heart attack, officials said. The body of Sgt. James Starr, a native of Boston, was discovered […]