Death notices for Raymond M Hitchcock of Mt Vernon
Raymond M Hitchcock a lifelong Mt Vernon resident died at 3 8 pm Monday at his home 403 S 19th St He was 52 years five months and two days old Funeral services will be held at 2 pm Wednesday at Myers Chapel Dr R B Guthrie will conduct burial will be in Oakwood cemetery The body will lie in state at Myers Chapel He was born March 31 1904 in Mt Vernon to Ray W and Beulah L Legge Hitchcock He married Inez Shelton on April 4 1953 who survives
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Raymond M. Hitchcock
Mt. Vernon
S. 19Th Street
Myers Chapel
R. B. Guthrie
Oakwood Cemetery
Mr. Hitchcock
Ray W
Beulah L. (Legge) Hitchcock
Inez Shelton
Mrs Moore Dies at 75. funeral set for Mt Vernon church
Mrs Martha Ellen Moore died at 3 p.m. yesterday at Good Samaritan hospital after a day as a patient. She was 75 years eight months old and a lifelong Jefferson county resident of Mt Vernon. Funeral services will be Wednesday at 2 p.m. at South Hickory Hill Christian church conducted by Rev Marsh Harpole with burial in South Hickory Hill cemetery. She had two previous husbands and is survived by Morton Moore and a large family including sons James L. Lowman and Joe Beckham, daughters Effie and Opal Morgan, Nina Thompson, Nellie Clark, stepchildren Julia and Mattie Dennis, Alice Quinn, Lee Moore, a sister Nellie Harmon, and many grandchildren.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Martha Ellen Moore
Good Samaritan Hospital
Moore
Jefferson County
RFD
Mt. Vernon
South Hickory Hill Christian Church
Marsh Harpole
South Hickory Hill
Nina Thompson
Ewing
Mary Susan (Thompson) Rightnowar
Orscar Loman
van Beckham
Morton Moore
James L. Lowman
Kansas Qty
Joe Beckham
Bonnie
Effie Morgan
Inn
Opal Morgan
Nellie Clark
Julia Dennis
Mattie Dennis
North Venice
Itl
Alice Quinn
Lee Moore
Nelle Harmon
Ina
Mrs. J. E. Bruce Dies At 76 FuneraI Thursday
Ella Nora Bruce age 76 of 320 So 11th died 9:45 p m Monday at daughter’s home in Mt Vernon where she lived ten months. Born July 17 1880 in Macon County Illinois to Charles Henry and Emma Mickel Woodland. Married to James Edward Bruce who died December 15 1948. Survived by six sons Leo Merrill William Maurice all in Illinois and Michigan, two daughters Opal Leimgruber and Stella York, eleven grandchildren and seven. Funeral 1:30 p m Thursday Sept 6 at Myers Chapel with Rev Sidney Porter. burial at Bl reeaveny Valley cemetery. Friends may call Myers Chapel after 3 p m Wednesday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ella Nora Bruce
11Th Street
Earl York
Aire
Mt. Vernon
Bruce
Myers Chapel
Sidney Porter
Reaveny Valley
Friends
Macon County
Ill
Charles Henry
Emma
Mickel) Woodland
James Edward Bruce
Leo
Merrill
William
Maurice
Chicago
Robert
Rockford
Michigan
Henry
Beckemeyer, Ill
Opal Leimgruber
Stella York
Rites Held For Wickman Infant Jimmy Dale Wickman
Graveside services were held at 10 a.m. yesterday for Jimmy Dale Wickman infant son of Jack and Carolyn Wickman of RFD 4 Mrs Vernon. He died at 9 p.m. August 31 at Good Samaritan hospital. Rev Philip Beppler conducted the services burial was in Bethel Memorial cemetery. Survived by parents and four grandparents Philip Beppler James Wickman.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jimmy Dale Wickman
Jack
Carolyn (Beppler) Wickman
RFD
Vernon
Good Samaritan Hospital
Philip Beppler
Bethel Memorial Cemetery
Jimmy Dale
James Wickman
Saturday Rites Scheduled For Mrs Daggett 83
Luella Armstrong Daggett 83 died at home on 13th Street. Born October 23 1872 in Vicksburg Mississippi she was married in 1887 and was a member of Corinthian Baptist Church. Funeral at Corinthian Baptist Church Saturday at 2 p m with Rev Fuqua and Rev Chambers. burial Oakwood Cemetery. Survivors include two sons Louis Armstrong Chicago Roosevelt Armstrong Mt Vernon two daughters Evelyn Overton Francina Russell Mt Vernon one brother Lee Gray Mt Bayou Miss one sister Erma Russell Vicksburg Miss 21 grandchildren 25 great grandchildren. Friends may call after 5 p m Friday at Campbell and Parker Funeral Home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Luella Armstrong Daggett
13Th Street
Ape
Corinthian Baptist Church
William Fuqua
W. C. Chambers
Oakwood Cemetery
Campbell and Parker Funeral Home
Mrs. Daggett
Vicksburg
Mississippi
Dan
Sarah Gray
Louis Armstrong
Chicago
Roosevelt Armstrong
Mt. Vernon
Evelyn Overton
Francina Russell
Lee Gray
Mt. Bayou
Miss
Erma Russell
Ethel Kennedy Dies At Home Here At 72
Mrs Ethel Jenny Kennedy died at 11 am Monday at her home 1021 S 6th St She was 72 years five months six days. Funeral at 2 pm Wednesday at Second Baptist Church with Rev Bird Green and Rev Tellis Young burial in Pleasant Hill cemetery. Survived by five sons two daughters two brothers two sisters eight grandchildren and three great grandchildren.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ethel Jenny Kennedy
S. 6Th St
Second Baptist Church
Bird Green
Tellis Young
Pleasant Hill
Pulley Funeral
Kennedy
Hamilton County
Grigg
Amanda
Hunter) Jenkins
Edward T. Kennedy
Mt. Vernon
Pleasant Hill Baptist
Dahlgren
Murvell
Homer
Earl Kennedy
Byford Kennedy
Wichita
Kansas
John Kennedy
Ewing
Elma Flanagan
Plants City
Florida
Oreano| Iron
Nina Warren
John Jenkins
Hopkinsville
Russell Jenkins
George Jenkins
Sofia Plasters
Sterling
Fannie Rogers
Haiti
Theft of $15 in coins reported to police
Paul Dagg of 328 South Third Street reported Monday that $15 in half dollars and quarters were stolen from his home. The coins were taken from a hiding place in a bedroom.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paul Dagg
South Third Street
Runaway Boys Picked Up Here
Three teen boys who ran away from a Dayton Ohio children's home were picked up near Mount Vernon by county officers on Monday. Ohio authorities were to pursue the youths this afternoon. they had fled the Dayton institution Saturday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dayton
Ohio
Mt. Vernon
Suez Parley Sees Arrests Rise in Spy Ring Case
Egyptian authorities disclosed 30 suspects charged with stealing military and political secrets for British intelligence as the Suez crisis deepens. John Thornton Stanley, 40, a British employee of Prudential Life Assurance in Cairo, is named among the latest arrests alongside other Britons and many Egyptians. The British embassy warns staff families to evacuate Egypt while France and Britain bolster forces near Cyprus.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Thornton Stanley
Prudential Life Assurance Co
Cairo
Egypt
Mediterranean
Cyprus
Suez Canal
Suez
Paris
Menzies
Suez Canal Co
Ward says he withheld anti communism plan in 1948 directive
Former diplomat Angus Ward testified to the Senate that a State Department superior pressured him to limit remarks on China in 1948. Ward said Forrestal wanted candid views on defeating communism in China, but he followed orders and later learned Forrestal was disappointed by the restraint.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
G. Mieton Kelly Washington
Angus Ward
State Department
Secretary of Defense
James V. Forrestal
China
Ward
Forrestal
Eisenhower
Army
Senate
Internal Security Subcommittee
Department
Subcommittee
Robert Morris
New York
U. S
Mukden
Manchuria
Washington
William C. Bullitt
Russia
Bullitt
Hospital Notes Jefferson Memorial
Admitted and discharged lists from Jefferson Memorial and Good Samaritan ward show patient movements. Names include Ramona Sweetin Edna Martin Edna Bluford Roy Hoyse Mattie Sanders Ruth Mullinax Jo Alice Hofer Norma Shields Tabitha Rankin Leslie Brumfield Donald Cook Harold Witzel Delores Harvey and others with numerous discharge entries including Tracey True baby Catherine Louise and many more.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jefferson Memorial
Ramona Geraldine Sweetin
Inn
Edna Martin
Bluford
Roy Hoyse
Woodlawn
Mattie B. Sanders
Chicago
Ruth Mullinax
Jo Alice Hofer
Norma Shields
Keenes
Tabitha Rankin
Leslie D. Brumfield
Good Samaritan
Donald Cook
Harold Witzel
Delores Harvey
Robert Towell
Pearl Kerley
Freida Piper
Virginia Malick
Bertha Hobbs
Vickie Hicks
Benjamin King
Walter Webb
Sarah Power
Morthern Grooms
Tracey True
Catherine Louise
William Hart
Carole Wickman
Guida Pigg
Sheila Lynn
Clara Cardy
Walter Willis
Claude Witzel
Betty Ingram
Mary Ellen Wright
Glenn Hughes
Henrietta Lucke
Delores Fite
Michael Dean
Wilma McIntyre
Harold Ray
Norma Shieves
Ira Wilkey
William Vivian Lowery
Dorothy Clarke
James Russell
Russians Set Off Third Nuclear Bomb Test
The Atomic Energy Commission announced that Russia has detonated a third nuclear test within 10 days. AEC Chairman Lewis Strauss said the Sunday explosion matched the earlier two blasts in size, about one megaton. First announced by President Eisenhower, Russia confirmed tests on August 24 and August 30, claiming a weapon for arming troops.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Atomic Energy Commission
AEC
Lewis LiStrauss
Eisenhower
Russia
Welfare Workers Of 14 Counties To Meet Here
Welfare workers from Clark Clay Crawford Edwards Effingham Fayette Cumberland Jasper Jefferson Lawrence Marion Richland Wabash Wayne will gather in a district meeting hosted by Mr. Vernon. The Illinois Welfare Association event starts at 10 a.m. with registration at the L and N Cafe and features speakers and a luncheon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vernon
Illinois Welfare Association
Vera Belle Gillespie
Lawrenceville
Andrew Cavaker
Harlow Richardson
Max Gage
Greece
Louis
Despo Paviedes
Bill Perry
Solist
Emil J. Hoffman
Social Security Board
Clark
Clay
Crawford
Edwards
Effingham
Fayette
Cumberland
Jasper
Jefferson
Lawrence
Marion
Richland
Wabash
Wayne
Marion Woman Shoots Husband in Bed Slaying
Williamson County coroner's jury urged grand jury action against Ouida Cannon, 29, for the shotgun death of her husband Raymond, 31, at their Marion area home. State's Atty. Carl Sneed said she admitted firing as he slept after claiming he had slapped her earlier. Cannon died Saturday. she is jailed without bond on murder charges.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marion
Williamson County
Ouida Cannon
Carl Sneed
Driver Entering Highway Killed In Two-Car Crash
Floyd McClintock, 39, of Buckingham was killed when his car entered Rt 115 from a side road near Kankakee. Two Herscher men in the other car, Milton Campe and Robert Shelby, were in fair condition with head injuries at St Marys Hospital.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kankakee
Ill
Floyd McClintock
Buckingham
Rt. 115
McClintock
Herscher
St. Mary’s Hospital
Kanka
Fee
Milton Campe
Robert Shelby
Girl on Date in Plane Falls to Her Death
Flora Lizabeth Anderson, 22, UC graduate, died after plunging from a rented plane near Stinson Beach during a second date with pilot Stanley Gordon, 28. Gordon claims Anderson slid out as he attempted a maneuver. The death is treated as likely self-inflicted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Rafael
Calif
Marin County
Flora Lizabeth Anderson
University of California
Stinson Beach
Stanley Gordon
Belvedere
Gordon
Miss Anderson
San Francisco
California
the Pelican
Navy Carrier Plane Flies 1,015 Miles An Hour
National Aircraft Show in Oklahoma City highlights five new records and jet-era advances. Cmdr. Robert W. Windsor pilots the Chance Vought FA Crusader to 1,015.428 mph in the Thompson Trophy over China Lake boosting aeronautics prestige amid other feats by F104 Starfighter and F100 Super Sabre.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oklahoma City
Navy
Robert W. “Duke
Windsor
China Lake
Calif
Air Force
Horace A. Hanes
Manuel J. Fernandez Jr
Apple Valley
George Afb
Kindley Afb
Bermuda
Joseph A. Schreiber
Brooklyn
N. Y
March Afb
Texas Ranger warns as Negroes barred from Mansfield school
In Mansfield Texas Ranger Captain Bob Crowder announced that any Negro students attempting to register at the all white high school will be transferred immediately to another district, following a suggestion from Governor Allan Shivers. Crowder spoke after mobs previously threatened registration while white students prepared to picket the high school.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mansfield
Tex
Texas Ranger
Bob Crowder
R. L. Huffman
Crowder
Allan Shivers
Texas Rangers
Alvarado
Here
al Cross
Fort Worth
Girl Plunges To Starved Rock Canyon Floor
An Evanston woman, 19 year old Georgia Grey, fell into the Starved Rock Canyon in Ottawa, suffering pelvic and rib fractures and possible internal injuries. Her companion, Bruce Couter, 18, said he grabbed a tree limb and held on as she slipped over the edge while they walked at dusk. He was unhurt. Miss Grey, a Millikin University sophomore, is reported improving in Ottawa hospital.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ottawa
Evanston
Starved Rock Park
Georgia Grey
Bruce Couter
Miss Grey
Millikin University
Decatur
Counter
Des Plaines
Fire damages Terre Haute store with $203,000 loss
Terre Haute fire injures five firefighters and nearly destroys the Factory Outlet Store on the north edge of the downtown area. Owner R. H. Plantz estimated total losses at 203000, with 190000 in merchandise destroyed and 13000 in building damage. Cause undetermined as smoke forced two hours of road detours on U.S. 41.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Terre Haute
Ind
R. H. Plantz
U.S. 41
Chinese Find Yank's Body Identified as Crewman Haskins
Washington reports that China notified the United States it found the body of a third American crewman from the naval patrol bomber shot down August 23 off the China Coast. The State Department says the body is tentatively identified as William F. Haskins.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
China
United States
State Department
William F. Haskins
Hodge Hospitalized at Menard for Duodenal Ulcer
Chester Tr. -- Orville E. Hodge, former state auditor, is in Menard penitentiary hospital for an ulcer. Dr. Weatherly reports an extensive treatment period of three to four weeks with diet changes and restricted family visits to avoid surgery. He also notes marked apprehension and sweating, with prior nervousness while in Springfield. He began term Aug. 20, serving 12 to 15 years for involvement in a 144 million dollar warrants scandal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ross V. Randolph
James A. Weatherly
Murphysboro
Iospital
Weatherly
Hodge
Menard
Springfield
Nixon's Father Lapses Into Coma
WHITTIER Calif Frank Nixon father of the vice presi dent lapsed into a coma today and his physician said A coma usually precedes death. Nixon 77 is in very critical condition death is just a matter of time said Dr M Kraushaar Vice President Richard Nixon roused several times during the night to look in on his father Each time he found his mother Hannah 71 sitting beside her husband's bed holding his hand.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Whittier
Calif
Frank Nixon
Nixon
M. Kraushaar
Richard Nixon
Hannah
Air trips noted for Koziara Childers Mclean Easton
Stan Koziara flew to Cincinnati Ohio Saturday and returned Sunday Clyde Childers flew to Denver Colorado Sunday Don Mclean flew to Tulsa Oklahoma Sunday Charles Easton flew to Alton yesterday
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stan Koziara
Cincinnati
Clyde Childers
Denver
iColo
Don Mclean
iTulsa
Okla
Charles Easton
Alton
Robbins Mercer Twins Born at Good Samaritan Hospital
Mr and Mrs Joseph Robbins of Country Heights welcome a son born Saturday at 12 41 PM weighing seven pounds ten ounces. Mr and Mrs Arthur Mercer of Chicago announce a daughter born Monday at 7 PM weighing six pounds nine ounces named Kathy Renee at Good Samaritan hospital.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph Robbins
Country Heights
Vernon
Good Samaritan Hospital
Arthur Mercer
Chicago
Kathy Renee
Farmers Plan Tour Of Soil Experiment Field
BELLEVILLE IL—Former members of the Lovejoy school board indicted on malfeasance charges. Mrs Cecile Hudspeth, former Lovejoy High principal, charged with forgery and embezzlement in district funds. Officials indict two other board members for improper payments and failure to records. A fall meeting at Brownstown Soil Experiment Field set for Wednesday with tours showing soil treatment and crop trials since 1940.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Belleville
Lovejoy
St. Clair County
Cecile Hudspeth
Lovejoy High School
Earle Williams
Richard T. Carter
Clarence D. Blair
John Johnson
Prince Wells
Carter
Hudspeth
Johnson Wells
Allen Chambers
Jessie Flagg
Ben Wilson
Girlie Costly
Wilson Near
Brownstown
Ilinois
James C. Martin
Clean Carpets Like Playing Shuffleboard
The Douglas Drug store advertises Blue Lustre as a top home carpet cleaning advance. It promotes vacuuming, applying foam with a long handle brush, jet dry, then vacuum again, likening the process to playing shuffleboard.
Also Mentioned on This Page
R. W. Hitchcock
J. E. Bruce
Wickman
Ethel Kennedy
Red Peril
Linda Christian
Walgreen
Agency Drug‘store
By Jim Monroe
CHE
Mount Vernon
ST. Louis
Mid-America
Leon
Louisville & Nashville Railroad
Texas
Rangers
Mansfield High School
Starved Rock
Yank
Chester
Menard Branch
the Winds State Penitentiary
Orville E. Hodge
Rport News
ST. Clair
Trailer Sales, Inc
Rte
South Salem, Ill
Coats
One & Dyeing Co
Farmers Plan
A. M
Douglas Drug
Kell School
Main ST
Electric Machinery Works, Inc
Castleton Sts
Mi. Vernen
Minels
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