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Emma Lulu Arkins was born on 15 April 1876 in Avon Township, Oakland, Michigan. She died on 18 April 1880, at age 4, in Avon Township, Oakland, Michigan.¹

Thomas Francis Ryan was born on 8 April 1880 in Chicago, Cook, Illinois. He and Myrtle Irene Armagost were married on 19 October 1904 in Winnebago County, Illinois.¹ He died in August 1956, at age 76, in Stephenson County, Illinois.² He was buried in Homewood Memorial Gardens, Homewood, Cook, Illinois.²

Thomas Francis Ryan was a Ryan Electrical Contractor. Findagrave shows birth as 1879.

William S. Armagost was born in April 1883 in Lena, Stephenson, Illinois. He died on 21 March 1913, at age 29, in Chicago Heights, Cook, Illinois. He was buried in Lena Burial Park (Block 2, Lot 20), Lena, Stephenson, Illinois.

Jack Frederick Hewitt was born on 16 March 1920 in Ulysses, Butler, Nebraska. He and Maxine Lucille Davidson were married before 3 April 1940 in California.¹ He died on 31 May 1964, at age 44, in Clovis, Fresno, California.

Jack Frederick Hewitt was a Langendorf United Bakeries- Employee.¹

Barbara Anne Bodine was born on 3 June 1928 in Pineridge, Fresno, California.¹ She and Ralph C. Davidson, Jr., were married on 9 September 1950 in Los Angeles County, California.² She and Ralph C. Davidson, Jr., were divorced in May 1975 in Orange County, California.³ She died on 8 June 2004, at age 76, in Huntington Beach, Orange, California.¹ She was buried in Fairhaven Memorial Park, Santa Ana, Orange, California.¹

Barbara, age 76, of Huntington Beach, a homemaker, died June 8, 2004 from cancer. She is survived by her husband, Ralph; sons, Brad, Reed and Scott; daughter, Sandra Fee; brothers, David, Louis and Thomas Bodine; sister, Shirley Pearl; 11 grandchildren; nine great-grandchildren. Services were at the First Baptist Church of Lakewood, CA. (The Orange County Register, June 8, 2004.)

Dale Hart Pitke was born on 9 April 1919 in Gibbon, Buffalo, Nebraska.¹ He and Imogene A. Armagost were married on 29 April 1944 in Philsburgh, Kansas.² He died on 27 February 2005, at age 85, in Bremerton, Kitsap, Washington.¹ He was buried in Forest Lawn Cemetery (Hillcrest Section), Bremerton, Kitsap, Washington.¹

US Navy- 1937-1957.² Dale Hart Pitke was an US Navy/ Custodian Bremerton School District.² Kitsap Sun (Bremerton, WA) - Thursday, March 3, 2005
Deceased Name: Dale Hart Pitke
April 9, 1919 -- Feb. 27, 2005

Dale Hart Pitke, 85, of Bremerton died Sunday at Harrison Hospital.

He was born in Gibbon, Neb., to George and Ceycle (Arbuckle) Pitke. He was raised and educated in Gibbon, where he enjoyed playing basketball. He graduated from high school there in 1937.

After graduation, he entered the Navy and served for 20 years, retiring in 1957. Mr. Pitke was the chief engineman on the USS Oklahoma and was on leave when the battleship was sunk at Pearl Harbor. He then served on the battleship USS Missouri before the Japanese signed their surrender aboard it at the end of World War II. He was an instructor and operating engineer during the construction of missile sites around Fairchild Air Force Base near Spokane. He served on the USS Atka icebreaker during Operation Deep Freeze in 1956 and 1957.

On April 29, 1944, he married Imogene Armogost in Philsburgh, Kan.

After his Navy career, Mr. Pitke worked for Bremerton School District as a custodian, retiring in 1980.

He was a lifetime member of the Grand Lodge of AF & AM of Nebraska. He also enjoyed baseball, basketball and remodeling his home.

Survivors include his wife of the family home; a son, DeWayne Pitke of Bremerton; a brother, Ira Pitke of Portland, Ore.; and a granddaughter.

A funeral service will be 2:30 p.m. Friday at Lewis Funeral Chapel, 5303 Kitsap Way, in Bremerton.

Burial will be at Forest Lawn Cemetery in Bremerton.

Arrangements are under the direction of Lewis Funeral Home.