Mrs Birdie Nelson longtime Braidwood resident dies at 88
Birdie Easton Nelson 88 of Braidwood died Wednesday at St Joseph Hospital Joliet after a short illness. She was born August 28 1887 in Clerichs Dakota Territory and graduated State School of Nursing in 1910. Funeral 2 pm Sunday Patterson Funeral Chapel Braidwood burial Oakwood Wilmington visitation Saturday. Memorials to First Presbyterian Church Braidwood.
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Braidwood
Arthur
Birdie E.) Nelson
St. Joseph Hospital
Joliet
Birdie Easton
Clerichs
Dakota Territory
State School of Nursing
Arthur H. Nelson
Presbyterian Church
Eileen Spires
Colorado Springs
Colo
Harold E. Nelson
Chicago
Grant Nelson
Garden Grove
Calif
Julia Steinback
Charlotte Easton
Dorothy Bettick
Patterson Funeral Chapel
Oakwood Cemetery
Wilmington
First Presbyterian Church
Braceville Man Joseph Yancaskas Dies at 81
Joseph Yancaskas 81 of Braceville died Thursday at St Joseph Hospital Joliet born March 24 1894 in Lithuania lived 35 years in Braceville He retired from Joliet Arsenal and Wilmington Paper Mill Survived by wife Eva daughters Stella Yusis Albina Rockis Nellie Scherer five grandchildren four great grandchildren one son Benjamin preceded in death Funeral services 11 30 a m Sunday Patterson Funeral Home Braidwood Burial Braceville Gardner Cemetery Viewing 2 4 and 7 9 p m at the funeral home
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Braceville
Joseph Yancaskas
St. Joseph Hospital
Joliet
Lithuania
Joliet Arsenal
Wilmington
Eva
Stella Yusis
Bellwood
Joseph
Albina) Rockis
Kankakee
Nellie Scherer
Oak Park
Benjamin
Patterson Funeral Home
Braidwood
Braceville-Gardner Cemetery
Funeral
Kidnap of American in Ethiopia Raises Tensions
Ronald Michalke, a communications expert from Mabel Minnesota, has been abducted in Ethiopia. He is the fifth American seized amid civil strife, with the State Department and U S Embassy confirming the incident and noting prior abductions of Collins International Service Co. staff and two U S servicemen. Ethiopian guerrillas are suspected to demand a halt to U S aid.
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Washington
UPI
Ethiopia
State Department
Ronald Michalke
Mabel, Minn
Collins International Service Co
U.S
Addis Ababa
Michalke
Collins
Christmas Mass Returns As Saigon Celebrates Peaceful Holiday
In Saigon, Vietnam, the first midnight Mass in eight years marks a peaceful Christmas. Curfew lifted on Christmas Eve, crowds fill streets, and government leaders affirm religious unity under a unified socialist Vietnam. Archbishop Nguyen Van Binh presides at the cathedral on Dong Khoi Street.
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Tran Dai Minh
Saigon
South Vietnam
UPI
Cholon
Huyen Tan Phat
Provisional Revolutionary Government
Nguyen Huu Tho
Vietnam
Msgr
Nguyen van Binh
Tu Do
Dong Khoi
PRG
When You Are Twenty You Try Anything Once
A reflective line notes how youth seeks new experiences while middle age settles into routine and restraint. The sentiment contrasts energy and caution across life stages. It hints at risk taking in youth and inertia in later years.
Four Die in Newport Shooting Spree
Jack Laymon escaped prisoner leads a deadly rampage at a Newport tavern killing four men including Gary Miller and Steve Valentine and injuring two others. Laymon was killed by an unknown assailant as six people were taken in for questioning and possible murder charges.
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Newport
Tenn
UPI
Jackie Mack Laymon
Cocke County
Tom O'Dell
Layman
O'Dell
Sheriff's Office
Laymon
Brushy Mountain
Ricky Cochran
Dublin
Gary Miller
Steve Valentine
Sherman Fleeing Nursing Home Sparks WWII Memory Fear
Alfred C Sherman 54, twice wounded in Europe, walked from a Jenks nursing home into snow hills. Diabetic and stroke survivor, he fears Nazi captors and recalls the war. Family says since the stroke he is confused about time and events and speaks of returning home after the war.
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Jenks
Okla
UPI
Alfred C Sherman
Sherman
Europe
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Arthur Nelson
Aquarium
Atlantic
Bermuda
LOTTO
KODAK
Liberty Walgreen Agency Drug Leas Morris
James Stinnett
Danny Davis
Pauline Davis
Jackie
Office of
Herbert L. Rest
O.D
Bowmansnnovative Footwear
Illinois
Daniel Gro
Liberty Master
Morris
Peoria-Rockford Bus Company
Romines Standard Truck & Carve
Joliet Federal
Ucepan
Sunbeam
L. Sunbeam
N. Corning Ware
Vermont
OPAL
W.ill
Patah
Furniture Mart
Wausau
RCA
LaFayette
Conners
Weyerhauser
P.O
BOWER
Morrison Rt
Ill
Ay Anca
Ty Anas
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