Ramona Robertson, served 17 Generals at MarForPac. Ramona loved my daughter and nephew and and coached yours truly on all the style and form he lacked. She proofed many of my third rate attempts to be a writer. Tom Prentice placed a brick in Ramona’s honor at the Pacific War Read more…
Jonathan Ferdinand Abel died at the age of 81 on December 15, 2013. Jonathan was born in New York, New York on June 6, 1932. He attended Riverdale Country School and graduated in 1950. He attended Connecticut Wesleyan and received a Bachelor of Arts in 1954. Jonathan Abel was a Lieutenant Colonel in the United States Marine Corps for twenty seven years.
MGySgt.(R) Joe Hensley died December 13 in San Diego. Burial will be at Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery on January 7. Joe was 95.
CCHQ was advised November 6 of the death of longtime CC and Florida Chapter member Charles “Charlie” Ross, a resident of Winter Park, FL. Charlie, a retired gunnery sergeant, was in the photographic field his entire career. He served with a motion picture team in Vietnam in 1966-67.
With great sadness, CCHQ learned that Dr. Michael McClung, father of Major Megan McClung, a combat correspondent who was killed in Iraq, passed away on Tuesday, July 2, 2013. He was a great supporter of the USMCCCA and will be sorely missed. His wife, Dr. Re McClung has told us that Read more…
Born in Portsmouth, Va., to Mylo Jay (deceased) and Dolores VanOrman, Suzi spent her childhood in Cadillac, Mich. She was an accomplished downhill skier, excelled in school academics, played the flute and twirled the baton for school band marches.
John was the co-author of the Virginia 1968 Freedom of Information Act and received the George Mason Award from the Richmond Sigma Delta Chi. He was the only editor on duty at The Richmond News Leader the day JFK was assassinated and had the duty of yelling “stop the presses” and helped crank out an updated edition hours later. Through the years, he interviewed politicians, sports legends, celebrities, and military heroes.
Life Member A. J. “Tony” Scaran, 82, died April 8 at his home in Orange, CA of complications attributed to Agent Orange. A long-time supporter of this Association, his A. J.’s Publishing Company ad was a mainstay in our annual Conference Journal.
Trudy Ehlbeck, 75, of Port Orange, Florida passed away on May 23, 2013 after a battle with leukemia. Trudy was also a breast cancer survivor. She was a special wife, mother, homemaker, grandmother and great grandmother and will be missed. Trudy met her husband, Hank while working at Life Magazine and they had been married since 1959. When she wasn’t running a family, Trudy was an avid gardener, having won awards at local garden shows.
Bill Lansford, 90, a Latino Marine and Army veteran who sought to bring honor to the contributions of other Latinos who served in the nation’s wars, died May 22 at his Playa del Rey home. The cause was complications of prostate cancer, his wife Ruth said. For a full story Read more…