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The Morning News from Wilmington, Delaware • Page 5

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The Morning Newsi
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Wilmington, Delaware
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5
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Deaths elsewhere CHESILHURST, N.J. (P) Frank Tamburro, 49, Democratic candidate for a third term on the Chesilhurst borough council, collapsed and died at a party rally Monday night. Mr. Tamburro, who operated a garage here, was once a member of the Camden County Democratic Committee. CAMBRIDGE, Md.

(P--J. Edward Walter, Cambridge postmaster and a former national official of the American Legion, died last night: in CambridgeMaryland Hospital. He was 54. The postmaster was a former national executive vice committeeman of the American Legion and had been state commander for Maryland. PITTSBURGH (UPD -Patrick C.

O'Neill, 61, political reporter for the Pittsburgh PostGazette, died yesterday in Mercy Hospital. A native of San Francisco, Mr. O'Neill also worked on the San Francisco Chronicle and several New York newspapers, including the World Telegram, Herald Tribune, Daily News and Post. He also worked for the Pittsburgh SunTelegraph. CAMDEN, N.J.

(-Lawrence T. Reinicker, 73, former president and vice president of the board of American Water Works died yesterday in Cooper Hospital here after a long illness. He began his career in 1927 with the Bel Air Water Light Bel Air, Md. Ex-all-state back Booz dies at 37 MILFORD Robert Booz, 37, of here, a former all-state halfback at Georgetown High School, died early yesterday in Milford Memorial Hospital after a long illness. Mr.

Booz was stricken with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis about four years ago, and had been periodically hospitalized since. He was a patient: at the Veterans Administration Hospital in Elsmere last January and had been admitted to Milford Memorial Hospital for the last time on Saturday. At 18. Mr. Booz was a standout halfback and placekicker at Georgetown High School and led the state in scoring in 1947 and 1948.

In one game he scored 50 points against Cambridge (Md.) High School. Mr. Booz attended Kentucky Military Institute and served in the Army in Newfoundland and Greenland during the Korean War from 1951 to 1953. Before his illness he worked as a meat cutter and supervisor at Burris Food Distributors, Inc. ir.

Milford. Mr. Booz is survived by his widow, Mrs. Sally Booz; a son, Robert and a daughter, Miss Sharon Lynn Booz, both at home; his stepfather. and mother, Mr.

and Mrs. Fred Brittingham of Milford; two brothers, James A. of Georgetown, and Theodore F. of Milford, and a stepbrother, Fred Brittingham of Newark. Services will be Friday afternoon at 2 at the Dodd-Carey Funeral Home, Georgetown, where friends may call tomorrow night.

Interment will be in Union Cemetery, Georgetown. Hercules pioneer Norman dies George M. Norman, 89, who became the first chemical director of Hercules, when the company was founded in 1913, died Monday in Deerfield, Ill. Mr. Norman, who retired as a director of the firm in 1945, died at the home of a daughter, Mrs.

Joseph Gilpen Powell. He had been ill for several weeks. His home was in Fairville, Pa. He was a chief architect of the giant expansion at Hercules that came with the entrance of the United States into World War I. He often recalled that period as the most hectic of his life.

MR. Norman was born in Wallingford, and was educated at Bloomsburg Normal School and Pennsylvania State University. He also did graduate work at the University Wisconsin from 1903 to 1905. He joined the Du Pont Co. as a chemist at Repauno, 'near Gibbstown, N.J., in 1905, and joined Hercules when it was formed.

He remained in charge of chemical research and control work until 1939. He was named a director of the company in 1928 and a member of the finance committee in 1937. He worked with the committee until his retirement. IN 1930, he was assigned to select a site for the company's proposed research center near Wilmington. He came upon the site while riding horseback and immediately made the selection.

He was a member of the American Chemical Society and was third chairman of the society's Delaware chapter. He received a 50-year membership certificate and other honors from the society in 1963. He was also a member of the American Institute of Chemical Engineering, a member of the board of trustees of Pennsylvania State University, a director of Pennsylvania Research and a member of the board of managers of the Wilmington Savings Fund Society. He was also a member of the Wilmington and Hercules Country Clubs and had been active since his student days in Sigma Alpha Epsilon Fraternity. In addition to Mrs.

Powell he is survived by another daughter, Mrs. Charles E. du Pont of Del Mar, and six grandchildren. N.J. Marine is killed in Viet action SWEDESBORO, N.J.

The death in Vietnam of Marine Pvt. Stephano J. Fiducioso, 20, of Oak Road last Thursday was reported in the latest Defense Department casulty list. The son of Mr. and Mrs.

Anthony Fiducioso and a former Regional High School football player had been in Vietnam for only two months, his family said. He was killed by shell fragments while on duty at Quang Nam, according to the family. Pvt. Fiducioso enlisted after being graduated from high school in 1965. The oldest of four children, he is survived in addition to his parents by two brothers, Anthony J.

and Larry and a sister, Anna, all at home. Mrs. H. F. du Pont dies; composer Mrs.

Ruth Wales du Pont, She also was a trustee of wife of Henry F. du Pont, died Tryon Palace Restoration at yesterday afternoon in Dela- New Bern, N.C. of which her ware Division, where she had ancestor, John Hawks, was the been a patient since Oct. 12. architect.

Mrs. du Pont was the daughter of the late Ruth Hawks Mrs. du Pont lived in Hyde N.Y., before her mar- and Edward H. Wales of Hyde Park, Park on the Hudson. riage in 1916 to the founder of to Delaware F.

du Pont Winter- Since coming as the Henry thur Museum. a bride more than 50 years ago, Mrs. du Pont had lived at WinA native of New York State, terthur. she was born June 10, 1889,. She In addition to her husband, was graduated from Miss she is survived by two daughSpence's School in New York ters, Mrs.

Alfred C. Harrison of City and studied music at the Oyster Bay, Long Island, N.Y., Peabody Institute in Baltimore. and Mrs. George de F. Lord Jr.

Mrs. du Pont was an accom- of New Haven, eight plished musician and composer. grandchildren and two greatSome of her compositions for grandchildren. organ were played at Christ Services will be at 3:30 tomorEpiscopal Church, Greenville, by row afternoon at Christ Church, Firmin Swinnen, retired organ- Greenville. Interment will be priist of that church and the vate.

the family asks that flowLongwood Foundation. ers be omitted. Ex-Penns Grove bank chief Apostolatos dies Wilmington, Morning DEEPWATER, N.J.. Mitch- the hospital three E. Apostolatos, 79, former death followed a president and board member of A native of Peoples Bank of Penns tolatos came Grove and a retired grocer, died States in 1907 Monday in St.

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