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Newspaper
Amarillo Daily News
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1973
Page
3
Obituaries for Mrs. Mable Cleo Blake 74 of Amarillo and H C Howard 72 of Amarillo list survivors and service details. Other notices include Mrs Annie M James, Mrs Lillian Jesse, and John Lindahl with pending or scheduled services. Cenotaphs span Clarendon Dumas Panhandle Wellington Wheeler and Borger regions with multiple relatives named.
URI divers Albert Davis and John McAniff, backed by the university, locate remains of HMS Cerberus and HMS Lark in Narragansett Bay. Project, costing about 60 000 dollars, aims to recover artifacts under archaeological supervision this summer, with finds placed under state ownership and displayed publicly.
Funeral services for Bill J. Milford 33, of Great Bend Kansas will be announced by Cook and Weber Funeral Home. Milford died at Trigg Memorial Hospital after a truck crash eight miles east of Tucumcari on U S 54 at 2 25 a m. He swerved to miss a deer in the roadway. The White Freight Liner from Wichita skidded 153 feet before overturning. Deer tracks found at the scene.
Odean Benjamin Nixon a 48 year old Hereford hog farmer died when his pickup left U.S. 385 eight miles south of Boise City rolled over several times came to rest on its top and pinned him. He moved to Hereford in 1947 from Rocky Ford Colorado and was a World War II veteran. Funeral services will be at First Methodist Church in Hereford with burial in Rocky Ford. He is survived by his brother Homer Nixon of Leadville Colorado and his parents of Rocky Ford along with several relatives he helped raise.
Funeral Mass for Michael Joseph Batenhorst 24 of Canadian will be at Sacred Heart Church in Spearman at 10 a.m. Tuesday. The crash occurred four miles south of Fritch on Texas 136 about 4:30 a.m. Saturday, with a hit-and-run driver leaving him 75 feet from his car. A suspect was questioned and released pending further investigation. Batenhorst, a 1969 Grover High School graduate, farmed in the Canadian area and is survived by his parents two brothers two sisters and grandparents.
A 20 year old Shamrock man was electrocuted at his home in San Antonio while installing an air conditioner. Danny Littlejohn a member of the Air Force stationed at Kelly Air Force Base died on arrival at a local hospital. He was born in Shamrock and was a Shamrock High School graduate who played varsity football. He joined the Air Force in 1972. He leaves a daughter Rhonda and wife Juliet and his parents Mr and Mrs W H Littlejohn Sr of Shamrock. His brother Sgt William H Littlejohn Jr is based at Ft Carson Colorado. His grandparents Mr and Mrs George Adams of Cedar Bluff Virginia and Joe Littlejohn of Stilwell Oklahoma. The body was taken to a San Antonio funeral home.
A 17 year old Liberal youth, Jerry Lee Briggs, died Saturday when gravel buried him during transfer from railroad cars. He was pronounced dead at Southwest Medical Center. The accident happened on a Rock Island spur near Liberal Airport. Briggs, a Liberal native, had just finished his sophomore year in high school. Survivors include his parents, Mr and Mrs H L Briggs, and sister Linda Sue Briggs. He worked for R C Trucking Co of Liberal. Burial was in Natoma Cemetery.
The Bureau of Indian Affairs will spend 75000 dollars to hire about 300 young people this month to collect garbage and debris across the Navajo Reservation. The program aims to improve sanitation and spark local employment on the large Southwest tribal lands.
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