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CINCINNATI (UPI) – A Cincinnati truck driver took his life Wednesday night [April 13, 1966] with a shotgun blast that also injured his wife, who tried to stop his suicide. The dead man was John Trapp, 44, who was to have appeared today in Clermont County Domestic Relations Court in a dispute with his former […]

Dana Eugene Taylor, 40, of Rt. 5, Clendenin, died Tuesday [September 14, 1964] in the Huntington Veterans Administration Hospital after a long illness. An oil field worker, he was a veteran of the Marine Corps, member of the American Legion and Young’s Memorial Church. Surviving are his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Romie D. Taylor of […]

Capt. Clarence C. Tessman, 49, of the U.S. Navy, died Saturday [August 10, 1963] shortly after his arrival in Saigon, South Vietnam, where he was reporting for foreign assignment duty. He and his family had recently visited Mrs. Tessman’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur W. Ames, 463 Magnolia Ave., San Bernardino. A native of Wisconsin, […]

Funeral services for Harvey C. Tucker, 40, who died yesterday [December 29. 1959] in Good Samaritan Hospital, will be at 11:30 a.m. tomorrow in Memory Chapel, A. L. Moore and Sons Mortuary, 333 W. Adams. The Rev. George Bruce will officiate. Burial will be in Double Butte Cemetery, Tempe. A native of Oklahoma, Mr. Tucker, […]

FAIRMOUNT (CNS) – Clifton Turpin, 35, a lineman employed by Illinois Bell Telephone Co., died at 5:45 a.m. Thursday [January 17, 1957] at Cole Hospital, Champaign, where he had been a patient since Jan. 3. He had been in ill health about one year. He was the son of Mrs. Charles Copeland of Fairmount. The […]

John Tadzik, 34, was found dead, apparently frozen to death [December 14, 1956], in his trailer located at the Golden Heart Trailer Court at 1916 Cushman St., Saturday morning. Tadzik, unemployed at the time of his death, was found by Frank Sexton of 323 Antoinette St., Lemeta when he came to check on the Tadzik […]

Faulkton, S.D., July 3 (AP)—Merlin Thompson, 30, who farms near here, was killed yesterday [July 2, 1954] when he was crushed between the box and frame of a truck. The mishap occurred on the William Hutchinson Sr. farm. Thompson and Hutchinson farmed together. Thompson had apparently been working on the truck hoist, Faulk County Sheriff […]

OCEANSIDE, Calif., April 27 (AP)—Shot in the head with his own carbine, S/Sgt. Oscar B. Terry, 32, of Austin, Tex., Was found dead in a company storeroom here Wednesday [April 25, 1951], the Marine Corps disclosed Friday. A board of investigation has been convened. It was not immediately determined whether the shooting was accidental, but […]

WASHINGTON, Jan. 17 (AP) – The Department of Defense casualty list No. 203, covering casualties in the Korean area, released today, bears the names of the following Californians: Missing in action [November 28, 1950]: Sgt. Raymond R. Thornton, husband of Mrs. Aileen G. Thornton, 839 West 146th, Gardena.

Funeral services for Marine Sergeant Kenneth Laverne Thurmond of Hollandale, killed in action in World War II at Okinawa, will be conducted Sunday afternoon at 4 o’clock at the Hollandale Cemetery by the Rev. Hobert B. Hawkins of the Church of Christ of Greenville. Military rites will be conducted at the graveside by Robert Edwin […]