Word: mahaffey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...RUSSELL MAHAFFEY Los Angeles
...went over to Kanorado and hired himself a preacher, the Rev. S. H. Mahaffey of the Full Gospel Church. Then he plunked down part of his savings for a $3,600 solid copper casket. When the word got around, some folks didn't think it right that Jim should have a funeral when he wasn't even dead. The singers Jim had engaged suddenly backed out and the school board wouldn't let him have the Community Center auditorium. But the publisher of the town's paper was on Old Jim's side. "Some church...
...four other U.S. fighting men, killed or missing in action in Korea, relatives would accept the first five to be awarded in the Korean war.* The other fighting men so honored are ist Lieut. Frederick F. Henry, 33, of Clinton, Okla.; Private ist Class Melvin L. Brown, 20, of Mahaffey, Pa.; Sergeant ist Class Charles W. Turner, 29, of Boston; and Major General William F. Dean, 51, of Berkeley, Calif. Of Dean's now famed exploit in besieged, burning Taejon, when he led bazooka teams against enemy tanks and refused to seek safety (TIME, July 31), the citation said...