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Obits|Obits|Old Corps

Obits|Obits|Old Corps

Final taps for Cyril John O’Brien

Marine Combat Correspondent Cyril John O’Brien was  laid to rest on Friday, Feb. 4, 2011, five days following his 92nd birthday. Many were assembled on  a spacious, snow-covered burial ground appropriately named “Gates to Heaven” in Montgomery County, MD, a dozen miles north of Washington, D.C. Two Marines removed an Read more…

By Jason Fudge, 14 yearsFebruary 6, 2011 ago
Obits|Obits|Old Corps

Hampton: Rosenthal member John Hampton, dies at 103

John Hampton, the retired Marine lieutenant colonel who in the late 1940s used his communications savvy to help launch the Marines’ famous “Toys for Tots” program that is still going strong, died Sunday at Deer Hill Care Home. He was 103.

By Jason Fudge, 15 yearsJuly 9, 2010 ago
Obits|Obits|Old Corps

Burlage: Former WWII POW and Leatherneck staffer, George Burlage dies

George Edward Burlage of Denton, TX died November 30, 2008 at Denton Presbyterian Hospital after a brief illness. He was 90 years old.

By Jason Fudge, 16 yearsJanuary 27, 2009 ago
Obits|Obits|Old Corps

McMahon: Korean war photographer Henry “Sonny” M. McMahon, 81, dies

Henry “Sonny” M. McMahon 81, died Aug. 8, 2008 at the Merrimack Valley Hospital after a long illness. He was born on Oct.17th 1926 in Cambridge MA, the son of the late Michael and Elizabeth McMahon.

By Jason Fudge, 16 yearsJanuary 24, 2009 ago
Obits|Obits|Old Corps

Hammond, Jr.: Leader of famed “Magnificent Bastards” in Vietnam, dies

USMCCCA member, Colonel James W. (Wes) Hammond, Jr. USMC (Ret.) passed away on January 14, 2009 in with his family at his side. He was born March 6, 1929 in New York City.

By Jason Fudge, 16 yearsJanuary 18, 2009 ago
Obits|Obits|Old Corps

Stavisky: Sam Stavisky, Denig Demon, dies at 93

Sam Stavisky, author of Marine Combat Correspondent: World War II in the Pacific, and a veteran Washington Post staffer, was one of the original Denig’s Demons. He died Sunday morning at 93. Funeral will be held in Washington Thursday, September 25 with burial at Arlington National Cemetery.

By Jason Fudge, 16 yearsDecember 8, 2008 ago
Obits|Obits|Old Corps

Stavisky: Stavisky family thanks CCs

Dear Friends of Sam Stavisky–the balm of your friendship and your devotion to my dad has been a salve for the ache that our family has experienced these past weeks. What a gift that my dad, in the second half of his life, renewed his passion for the Marines and Read more…

By Jason Fudge, 16 yearsDecember 8, 2008 ago
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