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Floyd W. Bickmore was born in California in 1901 to William and Ella Bickmore. In 1910 the Bickmore family was living in Santa Cruz County where William was employed as a mechanic in Felton. Floyd and his sister Esther attended local schools while…

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Source: Remembering our own: the Santa Cruz County military roll of honor 1861-2010. Santa Cruz, CA: The Museum of Art & History, c2010.
Type: OBIT

Donnel O'Brien experienced what the word affliction can mean to the human body.

Donnel A. O'Brien was born in Lamont, Iowa, in 1906; however, information regarding his parents and early life is not available. O'Brien had two brothers, Fred and…

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Source: Remembering our own: the Santa Cruz County military roll of honor 1861-2010. Santa Cruz, CA: The Museum of Art & History, c2010.
Type: OBIT

A one-week honeymoon was all that was allotted to Paul Leach before North Africa.

Information relating to Paul Elmo Leach's birth and family has not been located; however, his mother, Mrs. Pearl Kingston, may have raised him in Kansas City,…

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Source: Remembering our own: the Santa Cruz County military roll of honor 1861-2010. Santa Cruz, CA: The Museum of Art & History, c2010.
Type: OBIT

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Father and son sergeants went off to war together, but only the father returned.

Francis E. Aram was born on December 30, 1922. in Fresno County, California, to Lorena and Joseph Aram. The family later moved to the San Lorenzo Valley where Joseph…

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Source: Remembering our own: the Santa Cruz County military roll of honor 1861-2010. Santa Cruz, CA: The Museum of Art & History, c2010.
Type: OBIT

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While Japanese soldiers marched over and around him, Joe Gillis played dead for twenty-eight hours to avoid capture.

In 1921 Joe Gillis was the last son born in West Virginia to John and Victoria Gillis. The couple, along with their sons John,…

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Source: Remembering our own: the Santa Cruz County military roll of honor 1861-2010. Santa Cruz, CA: The Museum of Art & History, c2010.
Type: OBIT

In its May 30, 1945 edition, the Santa Cruz Sentinel published the name of Daniel Joseph Remick among those local servicemen listed as missing in action. No record of this sailor's life in Santa Cruz County has been located.

It is not known when…

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Source: Remembering our own: the Santa Cruz County military roll of honor 1861-2010. Santa Cruz, CA: The Museum of Art & History, c2010.
Type: OBIT

"Former Santa Cruzan Loses Life in Crash," noted the February 26, 1943, Santa Cruz Sentinel.

Raymond J. Jewett was born in Minnesota in 1920 to Mr. and Mrs. Jewett; his mother's name was Gertrude. By 1940 his mother had remarried and was living…

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Source: Remembering our own: the Santa Cruz County military roll of honor 1861-2010. Santa Cruz, CA: The Museum of Art & History, c2010.
Type: OBIT

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As Hal Rutherford bailed out of his rapidly descending plane, his body crashed into the tail section.

Harold Erwin Rutherford was born in California on September 8, 1904, to Mr. and Mrs. William T. Rutherford. In addition to his brother Clyde,…

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Source: Remembering our own: the Santa Cruz County military roll of honor 1861-2010. Santa Cruz, CA: The Museum of Art & History, c2010.
Type: OBIT

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Flying combat missions according to Svend Hansen was, "an emotion similar to playing Watsonville High School in 1936 except the stakes are higher and the results more tangible and long lasting."

Svend J. W. Hansen was born in Santa Cruz,…

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Source: Remembering our own: the Santa Cruz County military roll of honor 1861-2010. Santa Cruz, CA: The Museum of Art & History, c2010.
Type: OBIT

James T. Hannay was born in the "Garden City" of San Jose on March 27, 1912, to James and Nettie Hannay and spent much of his youth Santa Clara County. He completed grammar school but did not continue through high school. Later James married and the…

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Source: Remembering our own: the Santa Cruz County military roll of honor 1861-2010. Santa Cruz, CA: The Museum of Art & History, c2010.
Type: OBIT

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