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Paula Johanna Erna Saunders (Hartmann)

Paula Johanna Erna Hartmann was born in Germany 21 December 1906. Her parents were Paul and Frida Stuhr Hartmann. She had one sister only, Hertha, who was 18 months older than she.

Paula and her mother arrived in San Francisco, California, in 1911, several months after Paula's sister and father arrived there. Paula and Hertha started school together in San Francisco.

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William W. "Bill" Saunders, MD

In 1902, Bill was born in The Dalles, Oregon. His mother, Lola Anne Ewbank Saunders, was 25 years old; his father, Freas Brown Saunders, was 28 years old.

In 1904 the family moved to Arlington, Oregon, a few miles upstream from The Dalles. There his sister, Florence, was born in August of 1904 when Bill was a little over 2 years old.

In 1909 his family moved back to The Dalles, where his father continued to live until 1960. Bill's father managed a warehouse handling wheat and a flour mill

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Edith Annie (Respress) Marlow

Edith Annie Marlow, 90 of Frostproof, Florida passed away Sunday, August 21, 2016 at Royal Care of Avon Park with many family members and friends at her side.

She was born on March 23, 1926 in Frostproof, Florida to the late Eddie and Cleo (Tindell) Respress and she has been a lifelong resident of this area. She worked in the citrus industry as a fruit grader and was a homemaker and a member of the Emmanuel Baptist Church of Frostproof.

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Robert J. Sullivan

Robert J. Sullivan of Warwick, N.Y. formerly of the Bronx and Englewood, N.J., entered into rest Tuesday September 17, 2013. He was 70.

The son of the late Thomas J. Sullivan and Mary Hammer Sullivan he was born March 30, 1943 in Bronx, N.Y.

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William Compton

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Opal Marie Hill (Givens)

Opal Marie Hill, nee Givens, died 16 December 1999 in Fort Walton Beach, Florida (Okaloosa County). Preceding her in death was her father, Richard L. Givens and her mother, Alice Settles Givens.

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Robert Gabus Young

Mr. Robert G. (Bob) Young, age 76, one of Calhoun county's outstanding leaders and citizens, passed away at the family home in Vardaman, on Friday, March 29, following an illness covering several years.

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Thomas Wilson Young

Thomas W. Young died suddenly at his home Saturday morning, July 6th, 1946. He was 31 years of age. Funeral services were held Sunday from the Vardaman Baptist Church, conducted by Rev. Carmen Savell, assisted by Rev. L.F. Haire and Rev. O.L. Elliott. Interment was in Vardaman cemetery. Grave services were held by members of the American Legion with full military honors. Thornton Funeral Home had charge of Arrangements.

He was born in Vardaman on Sept. 27, 1914, the son of Robert Gabus Young who survives him and Sarah Frances Richards Young who died in 1943.

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Barbara Frances (Young) Yancy

Barbara Frances Young Yancy, 63, of Morningside Terrace, Jackson, MS, a former state senator, died of heart failure Wednesday, April 24, 1996, at her home.

Services are 1 p.m. Saturday at Bruce United Methodist Church in Bruce, MS, with burial in Bruce Cemetery next to her husband, Senator Jesse L. Yancy, Jr., with Parker Memorial Funeral Home handling the arrangements.

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Monette Morgan Young

Monette Morgan Young, 84, of Jackson, MS, formerly of Vardaman, died Friday, February 18, 2000, at St. Dominic's Hospital in Jackson of complications resulting from mulitple myeloma. She was born July 5, 1915 in the Reid Community of Calhoun County, MS, the daughter of Albert Hosea Morgan and Eula Barbara Murphree Morgan. She was a homemaker, a retired Licensed Practical Nurse, and she was a Baptist.

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Mary Nell Doyle Saraf

Mary “Nell” Doyle Saraf, wife of George, passed away Saturday, September 3, 2016, at Hospice Savannah. Aunt Nell was born in Sylvania, Georgia and lived in Effingham County for many years. She worked for Gulfstream for 19 ½ years and enjoyed fishing, working in her flower beds, traveling and spending time with her friends and family.

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Ettie Jane Gleason Keogh

Beloved school teacher, Ettie Jane Gleason Keogh passed away at her home surrounded by her family, on August 27, 2016. Ettie Jane was born to Lena and Homer Gleason on May 7, 1929, She was raised in the home built by her father on a block that was classically "Gleason". She spent her childhood running around the Gleason's General Store and the First Presbyterian Church of Lake Mary, both of which her father had a hand in constructing. She later married Richard Keogh (who proceeded her in death) and they built their home in the backyard of the church.

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