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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Feb 21, 1966
Page
4
Community classified page blends furniture ads and shop notices with funeral notices for Everett Seamens Helen Westley and Margaret Studd. Also lists discharges and admissions, a Columbus community choir box social, and a VFW card party with local venues and dates. Ad rates stated as 23 cents per line.
Approximately two men comb the area around the home of Arlene Knapp 61 in Titusville after her family reported her missing late Friday. Civil Defense director George Schwab says the search is precautionary and relatives were contacted. Volunteers from Colonel Drake Radio Club and Bloomfield Cen terville fire crews aided communications and search efforts. Paul A Gilbert 20 a Marine from a Somerset County community was killed in Vietnam last week while with the 3rd Battalion of the 9th Marines.
Ex Naval hero Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz died at 80 from complications after a stroke. The last five star admiral commanded vast fleets in World War II and the war with Japan, earning the nation’s thanks. He died at Yerba Buena Island Naval Base, surrounded by family, with burial planned at Golden Gate National Cemetery. President Johnson and Gen. Eisenhower paid tribute to his quiet courage and leadership.
Several local obituaries note deaths in Wrightsville and nearby Corry. Everett E Seamens aged 79, born December 25 1887, leaves wife Alice Jones Seamens, three daughters, one son, ten grandchildren and fourteen great grandchildren. services at McKinney Funeral Home, Wrightsville. Miss Helen I Westley, born August 15 1891, died at Corry Memorial Hospital. survived by sister Arveta Graves and two nieces, nephews. services at Brackey Funeral Home and First Baptist Church. memorials to foreign missionary work. Mrs Austin Studd of 130 Wright Street died after extended illness. survived by husband Austin J Studd, daughter Louise Short, sister Nell Koestner, two grandchildren and a great grandson. services at St Thomas Church with Rosary at the funeral home.
Doctors report Rabbi Morris Adler in Detroit has worsened slightly eight days after a Sabbath service shooting by a congregant. Hospital officials disclosed no change in his condition today and express concern about his prognosis.
Service for Leroy Utege was held Saturday after fev, with Walter Sweeney of Supt Rev officiating. Interment in the family lot at Wesleyan Cemetery, Sugar Grove. Bearers were Glenn Ruhlman, Pen West, George Levine, phc and Ernest Dyke and Leslie Utegg. Attendees from away included Frank Utegg and others from Sugar Grove, Chandlers Valley, Lottsville, Warren, Jamestown and Brocton showing the wide family reach.
Former American League umpire Harry Geisel, 7 retired dean of umpires, died yesterday at Johnson County Memorial Hospital in critical condition. A 5 year old rabbi, Rabbi Adler, was shot in the arm and head by Richard Wishnet sky 23, who then fatally shot himself. Adler has undergone brain surgery twice.
Montana and Minnesota endured a seventh day of subzero readings as deep snow and winds up to 50 mph snarled travel from the Mohawk Valley to Albany. Snow paralyzed sections of the Schuylkill Expressway as hundreds of cars were abandoned. Subfreezing warmth and heavy rivers triggered flooding along the Mississippi at Davenport, Iowa, while hazardous driving shut roads across the Midwest.
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