Dale K. Davison was called to be with the Lord on June 18, 2006, after a brief stay at the Hospice of Northwest Ohio. He was born on October 5, 1924 in Toledo, OH to Henry and Ruth Davison. He was preceded in death by his parents and sister, Virginia Shepherd. He was a 1942 graduate of Libby High School in Toledo. Dale was commended for his services to his country in the US Navy during WWII as a machinist first mate and leading petty officer. He served aboard USS Wasp, the USS Franklin, USS Proteus, USS Yosemite and USS Yellowstone. He made two trips to England and Italy to transport 10,000 troops, back to the States, and finally back aboard the USS Wasp for her decommissioning.
He apprenticed and became a journeyman die maker at the Doehler Jarvis Co. in Toledo, OH, where he worked for 36 years. After retiring in 1978, he taught machine trades in the adult education program at Penta County Technical High School in Oregon, OH. Dale was an avid golfer and was a lifetime member at Valleywood Country Club in Swanton, OH. He was also a member of the Elks in Swanton, OH.
He is survived by his loving wife, Alice, of 61 years; son, James and his wife, Pamela of Wilmington, NC and granddaughter, Brooke, who he adored and her husband, Brian Minor of Charlotte, NC.
Friends are invited to visit on Thursday from 11 a.m. until the time of services at 1 p.m. in the Ansberg-West Funeral Home, 3000 Sylvania Avenue. Reverend Robert L. Wuellner will officiate. Those who wish to express their sympathy are asked to consider a donation in his name to Hospice of Northwest Ohio, 30000 E. River Rd., Perrysburg, OH 43551, where he spent his last hours
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DANIELS – Kenneth E., 84, Riverside, died April 27, 2006, at Memorial Medical Center, Main Campus. Born July 10, 1921, in Johnstown, son of the late Arthur Penrose and Grace (Rowles) Daniels. Survived by wife of 61 years, Thelma C. (Davis); children, Terry L., married to the former Donna L. Saulsbury, Red Lion; Kenneth A., and his friend, Helen V. Fisher, Boswell; and Jay L., Riverside; grandchildren, Terry Jr.; Betsy, married to Steven Smith; Melissa, married to Robert Whitacre; and Kenneth J.; great-grandchildren, Ashlee and Madison Galloway, Brady Smith and Noah and Helen Whitacre; brother, William, Johnstown; sister, June McCann, Millville, N.J.; and numerous nieces and nephews. Member of Liberty Grace Brethren Church and Cambria County Firemen’s Association. A life member of Riverside Volunteer Fire Company. He was instrumental in establishing Pack 36 Cub Scouts, Riverside. He was an avid hunter, fisherman and gardener. A World War II Navy veteran, where he was aboard the USS Princeton and USS Franklin before enlisting in the Navy Reserves as a petty officer, third class. He was a recipient of the Purple Heart. Retired electrician from Bethlehem Steel, Franklin Mills Plant, after 34 years of service. Friends received from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. Sunday at John Henderson Co. Funeral Home, 215 Central Ave., where funeral service will be held at 2 p.m. Monday, the Rev. Don Rough. Interment, Forest Lawn Cemetery. Contributions may be made to Riverside Volunteer Fire Company.
http://www.tribdem.com/obituaries/local_story_118212024.html

Charles S. Clowdus, 80 of Lake Arrowhead, went to be with the Lord on Sunday, April 1, 2007 in Wichita Falls.

Funeral services will be 1 p.m., Saturday, April 7, 2007 at the Davis Funeral Home Chapel in Henrietta, Texas, with Rev. Danny Lively, pastor of Scotland Community Baptist Church of Scotland, Texas officiating. Burial will be in Bluegrove Cemetery in Bluegrove, Texas under the direction of Davis Funeral Home.

Mr. Clowdus was born on May 23, 1926 in Lone Grove, Okla., to Paul and Bertha Mae Bigbie Clowdus. He married Mary Lou Tindle on Aug. 12, 1951 at Hawley, Texas. He served in the U.S. Navy during WWII and was a retired U.S. Air Force Tsgt. Mr. Clowdus worked for Texas Aero Space in Abilene, Texas then PPG from 1975-1986. He also attended Scotland Community Baptist Church, Scotland, Texas.

Mr. Clowdus was preceded in death by his parents, Paul and Bertha Mae Clowdus and sister Dorothy Graham.

Survivors include his wife, Mary Lou Clowdus of Lake Arrowhead; daughter and son-in-law, Sharon and Michael Huebel of Grand Prairie, Texas; daughter and son-in-law, Wanda and Michael Dye of Burkburnett, Texas; daughter and son-in-law, Ann and Tom Hays of Wichita Falls, Texas; daughter and son-in-law, Laura and Randy Rose of Clayton, Okla.; daughter and son-in-law, Lorraine and Johnny Bolf of Wichita Falls, Texas; daughter and son-in-law, Naomi and Bret Cutshall of St. Helens, Oregon; daughter and son-in-law, Allyson and Jeff Street of Burkburnett, Texas; son and daughter-in-law, Paul and Lenora Clowdus of Emmett, Idaho; son, Jeff Clowdus of Boston, Mass.; son and daughter-in-law, Charles S. and Liz Clowdus of Hurst, Texas; son, David Clowdus of Jacksonville, Fla.; brothers, Kenneth Clowdus and Paul Clowdus both of Glendora, California; sister Naomi Jaenicke of Portland, Ore.; 26 grandchildren; 7 great-grandchildren; and two children by a previous marriage, Charlotte Patzskowski and Steve Miller.

Visitation will be Friday, April 6, 2007 from 7 to 8 p.m. at Davis Funeral Home, Henrietta.
http://www.timesrecordnews.com/trn/local_obituaries/article/0,1891,TRN_5786_5462063,00.html

Charles Louis Cody (’50) died June 12, 1998 at the Moberly Regional Medical Center. He was born Oct. 12, 1926 in Baring, Mo., and was 71 years old. He was in the Navy during World War II and served on the U.S.S. Franklin. He was a teacher, coach, principal, and superintendent at schools in Lancaster, Silex, Cuba, and Paris, Mo. He was assistant superintendent of Moberly Schools from 1968 until his retirement in 1985. He married Norma Shearer (’50) in 1950. She survives, along with their daughter, Cathy (Cody) Ryan (’77), and two grandchildren.
http://alumni.truman.edu/trumanreview/spring99/obits.html

Retired Navy Capt. Charles Lee Burbage, 88, of Annapolis, and previously of Memphis, Tenn., and Ocean City, died Oct. 15 at Ginger Cove Health Center after a one-day illness.
Born Feb. 28, 1918, in Berlin in Worcester County, Capt. Burbage graduated in 1935 from Ocean City High School and in 1936 from the Naval Academy Preparatory School. In 1941 he graduated from the Naval Academy where he played on the football team.

In 1971 he retired after 36 years in the Navy and then worked for 10 years for the Holiday Inn Corp. in Memphis.

On Dec. 7, 1941, he was on the USS Detroit during the attack on Pearl Harbor and helped to save the ship by getting underway and rescuing many who were in the harbor waters.

He had a long and eventful career in the military, where he became a jet pilot and flight instructor and was assigned to Fighter Squadron 5 aboard the carrier USS Franklin. He was preparing to begin a flight off the carrier when it was bombed by the Japanese. He survived by jumping from the upper deck into the sea and swimming for several hours before being rescued by a whaling ship.

Capt. Burbage was a member of the elite Golden Eagles, a club for decorated jet pilots, as well as the Pearl Harbor Survivors Association and the Association of Naval Aviators.

He enjoyed decoy carving, fishing, golf and handball and in his younger years was the Navy’s national handball champion for two years. He remained a Class A-ranked handball player.

On Sept. 29, 1942, he married the former Mary Teresa Niland, who died earlier this year.

Surviving are two sons, Tom Burbage of Atlanta, Ga., and Jim Burbage of Naples, Fla.; four daughters, Nancy Ohanian of Burke, Va., Carol Burbage of Gaithersburg, Joan Hawkins of Cordova, Ind., and Mary Lee “Mimi” Burbage of Anchorage, Alaska; 13 grandchildren; and eight great-grandchildren. He was the son of the late Daisy Lee Bassett Burbage and William Thomas Burbage.

Graveside services will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday at Evergreen Cemetery in Berlin where arrangements are by Burbage Funeral Home. Memorial contributions may be made to the Community Foundation of the Eastern Shore, the William T. Burbage Memorial Scholarship Fund, P.O. Box 152, Salisbury, MD 21803.
http://www.hometownannapolis.com/cgi-bin/read/2006/10_19-34/FOR

George W. Bogar Jr. ’32

George died Apr. 11, 2003, in the Carlisle [Pa.] Regional Medical Center; he was 94. He was a graduate of Mercersburg Academy. His comments in our 25-year book: “Opinion of Princeton — immensely wonderful. Princeton in good hands, always becoming greater!”

After graduation he worked for Rawling Sporting Goods for 47 years. During WWII he served on the USS Franklin aircraft carrier in the Pacific theater. He was a 50-year member of the American Legion Post #101 in Carlisle. He was a life member of the American Football Coaches Assn. and was inducted into the South Central Chapter of the Philadelphia Sports Hall of Fame in 1991; he was a lifelong sports enthusiast.

George is survived by his wife of 72 years, Helen Condren Bogar; two sons, George III and William; daughters Susan Mercker, Betsy Kent, and Robin Spendley; brother John; 12 grandchildren; and 12 great-grandchildren.

The Class of 1932
http://www.princeton.edu/~paw/archive_new/PAW02-03/17-0702/memorials.html

Mr. Glenn Blankenship, age 82, of Cumming passed away Monday, May 14, 2007. He was a WW II Navy Veteran and member of the 704 Club. He was aboard the aircraft carrier, The USS Franklin, in the South Pacific when it was bombed. Out of 3300 men, only 704 escaped – hence the name of the club. He was preceded in death by his parents Govan & Grace Blankenship and brother, Wayne Blankenship.

Survivors include his wife of 58 years, Nettie McAbee Blankenship of Cumming; daughter and son-in-law, Rhonda and Ben Houston of Cumming; grandchildren, Meredith and Dr. Aaron Carr of Decatur, Adam and Leslie Houston of Cumming; great granddaughter, Evi Grace Houston of Cumming; brother, Harold Blankenship of Burnsville, NC.

Graveside Services will be held Thursday, May 17, 2007 at 3:00p.m. at the Cane Creek Cemetery in Fairview, NC. The family will receive friends at Ingram Funeral Home on Tuesday, May 15, 2007 from 5:00p.m. until 8:00p.m.

Ingram Funeral Home and Crematory, Cumming, Georgia in charge of arrangements.
http://www.cumminghome.com/news30041/obits/mr-glenn-blankenship.shtml

David Berger, 94, a renowned Philadelphia trial attorney, died Feb. 22 (2007). He was a resident of Palm Beach, Fla.
Berger was one of the first lawyers in the United States to apply the class action rule in the Federal Courts to antitrust violations.

Beginning in 1963, he commenced a series of class action cases alleging price-fixing against industries involving rock salt, cast-iron railroad wheels, concrete pipes and copper tubing. He was also instrumental in expanding class actions effectively into other area of the law, such as property losses by victims of the nuclear accident at Three Mile Island in 1978.

Born in the small town of Archbald, in upstate Pennsylvania, Berger had a legal career that spanned more than 60 years.

He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania Law School in 1936, first in his class, Order of the Coif and as a member of the University of Pennsylvania Law Review. Because of his academic distinction, he served from 1936-38 as special assistant to the dean of the law school. He later served as a law clerk for the Pennsylvania Supreme Court and later for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.

Berger served with distinction as an officer in the U.S. Navy in combat in the South Pacific Theater on the USS Enterprise, USS Hornet and the USS Franklin, and then served on the personal staff of the commander of the South Pacific Theater of Naval Operations. For his service, he was awarded the Silver Star and Presidential Unit Citation. After returning from World War II, he became a trial lawyer in Philadelphia.

In 1956, he was asked by then Mayor Richardson Dilworth to head the city’s law department as city solicitor. As chief lawyer for the city and as a key adviser of Mayor Dilworth, Berger played a major role in the postwar political revival and urban renewal of Philadelphia.

He was instrumental in establishing major public institutions in Philadelphia, including the Philadelphia Industrial Development Corporation and the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transit Authority. He was later appointed by President Kennedy to a committee to develop high-speed rail lines between Washington and Boston, which became Amtrak.

In 1963, Berger stepped down from his position as city solicitor and returned to private law practice. In 1969, he was the Democratic nominee for district attorney in Philadelphia.

In 1970, Berger started his own law firm, which eventually became Berger & Montague, P.C., which specialized in the areas of antitrust, securities, environmental, consumer protection, and civil-rights and human-rights litigation. Among the cases he and his firm litigated were the Three Mile Island Nuclear Accident Litigation, Penn Central Railroad Reorganization, the Boesky/Drexel Burnham/Milken Securities Litigation and the Exxon Valdez Oil-Spill Litigation.

Berger was a member of many professional committees and received numerous awards.

The U.S. Supreme Court appointed him to its committee to draft the Federal Rules of Evidence. He was a fellow in American College of Trial Lawyers, the International Society of Barristers and the International Academy of Trial Lawyers. He was a life member of the Judicial Conference of the Third Circuit and the American Law Institute, and also Chancellor of the Philadelphia Bar Association.

He was appointed to serve as a member of the U.S. Holocaust Commission by President Clinton, and was a member of the Board of Overseers of the University of Pennsylvania Law School and an associate trustee of the university.

Berger is survived by sons Jonathan Berger and Daniel Berger; brothers Harold Berger and Joseph Berger; and two grandchildren.
http://www.jewishexponent.com/article/12385/

George M. Bailey, 81, of South State Street died yesterday (9/5/2002) at home. He was born in Concord, the son of George and Alice (Matheson) Bailey. He graduated from Hopkinton High School. He served with the U.S. Navy during World War II and received a Purple Heart. He was a member of the 704 Club, which was responsible for the return of the U.S.S. Franklin to New York after it nearly sank of the coast of Japan. Bailey worked as a mail carrier for the postal service for many years and was self-employed as a roofer for many years. He served as past commander for the VFW Post No. 1631 and was a member of the American Legion Post No. 31. Survivors include his wife of 60 years, Louise (St. John) Bailey of Concord; a son, George Bailey of Concord; four daughters, Linda Venne, Diane Andrew and Karen McGill, all of Concord, and Dawn Mayo of Bradenton, Fla.; two brothers, Allen Bailey of Epsom and William Bailey of Port St. Lucie, Fla.; two sisters, Barbara McClintock of Gilford and Virginia Woodman of Union, Maine; six grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren.
http://www.zoominfo.com/people/Bailey_George_14384882.aspx

William Madison Babbitt, 81, beloved husband, father, grandfather, and great-grandfather, died peacefully at Epoch Senior Healthcare of Harwich, Feb. 10, 2007.

He is survived by his wife, Marjorie A. (Jenkins) Babbitt of 58 years. He was the brother of Ray W. Babbitt of Cape Coral, Fla.

He was born in Fairhaven on Nov. 10, 1925, a son of Corey M. and Alice C. Babbitt. He was the class president in 1943, and a three sport, varsity athlete at Barnstable High School. He enlisted in the Navy after graduation. During World War II, he served as a radarman third class, aboard the USS Franklin. A recipient of a Purple Heart, he returned to Hyannis in 1946, for a lifelong commitment to his family, church, and financial careers.

He was a graduate of the Williams College School of Banking. Mr. Babbbitt was a 64-year member of the Hyannis Federated Church. He was a longtime member of the Hyannis Yacht Club.

A passionate commitment to little league and youth hockey in the town of Barnstable was highlighted by his serving as president and board of director of the Kennedy Memorial Youth Hockey League. He was the founder of the KMYHL Invitational Hockey Tournament in 1968.

He was Master of the Fraternal Lodge, AF & AM, of Centerville, and served both as District Deputy Grand Master of the Hyannis 32nd Masonic District of Cape Cod, and the youngest appointed Deputy Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Massachusetts. For many years, Mr. Babbitt was a vice-president of Cape Cod Bank and Trust, and retired after 31 years as an administrative assistant at the Hy-Line.

Mr. Babbitt is survived by his three children, Deidre L. and her husband Alan C. Unangst of Chardon, Ohio, David A. and his wife Debra L. Babbitt of Barnstable, and Steven M. Babbitt of Cummaquid, and his friend Linda L. Catalina. He was a loving grandfather to Eric, Kurt, Katrina, Kyle, Nora, Graham, and Agatha; and great-grandfather to Emma, Elisa, and Koen.

Visitation will be held on Wednesday, Feb. 14, 2007, from 4 to 7 p.m., at the Doane, Beal & Ames Funeral Home, 160 W. Main St., Hyannis.

A memorial service will be held Thursday, Feb. 15, 2007, at 11 a.m., at the Hyannis Federated Church, Main Street, Hyannis, followed by a burial at the Oak Neck Cemetery, Sea Street, Hyannis.

In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Scholarship Foundation – Barnstable Youth Hockey Association, PO Box 312, Hyannis, MA 02601.
Published in the Cape Cod Times on 2/12/2007.
http://www.legacy.com/CapeCod/DeathNotices.asp?Page=LifeStory&PersonId=86436978