Richard Irvin Bakewell Sr., 79, of Greensboro R.D.1, formerly of California state and Arizona, died at 11:45 a.m. Monday, December 16, 2002, in UPMC-Shadyside hospital, Pittsburgh. He was born September 24, 1923, in New Geneva, a son of Irwin Samuel and Thelma Mallory Bakewell.
Mr. Bakewell was a 1941 graduate of Brownsville High School and resided in Greensboro R.D.1 for the past eight years.
During World War II, he served in the U.S. Army with the 517th Parachute Infantry in the European Theater, for which he received a Bronze Star with three oak leaf clusters.
Mr. Bakewell worked as a service engineer for Weatherite Co. in Los Angeles, Calif., and was a former member of Reserve Engineers Service Society. He was Baptist.
Mr. Bakewell was a former member of Arizona Sheriff's Posse and a member of Cumberland American Legion Post 400 in Carmichaels, American Legion Post 44 of Scottsdale, Ariz., and a member-at-large of Veterans of Foreign Wars.
Friends will be received at the YOSKOVICH FUNERAL HOME, Martin J. Yoskovich, Funeral Director, 300 South Vine Street, Route 88, Carmichaels, Pa. A Funeral Service will be held Dec. 18, in the Funeral Home with the Rev. Roger C. Saunders officiating.
Additional visitation will take place on Saturday, December 21, at Rose Hill Memorial Park and Mortuary, Whittier, California, where interment will follow.
Mr. Bakewell was a 1941 graduate of Brownsville High School and resided in Greensboro R.D.1 for the past eight years.
During World War II, he served in the U.S. Army with the 517th Parachute Infantry in the European Theater, for which he received a Bronze Star with three oak leaf clusters.
Mr. Bakewell worked as a service engineer for Weatherite Co. in Los Angeles, Calif., and was a former member of Reserve Engineers Service Society. He was Baptist.
Mr. Bakewell was a former member of Arizona Sheriff's Posse and a member of Cumberland American Legion Post 400 in Carmichaels, American Legion Post 44 of Scottsdale, Ariz., and a member-at-large of Veterans of Foreign Wars.
Friends will be received at the YOSKOVICH FUNERAL HOME, Martin J. Yoskovich, Funeral Director, 300 South Vine Street, Route 88, Carmichaels, Pa. A Funeral Service will be held Dec. 18, in the Funeral Home with the Rev. Roger C. Saunders officiating.
Additional visitation will take place on Saturday, December 21, at Rose Hill Memorial Park and Mortuary, Whittier, California, where interment will follow.
Richard Irvin Bakewell Sr., 79, of Greensboro R.D.1, formerly of California state and Arizona, died at 11:45 a.m. Monday, December 16, 2002, in UPMC-Shadyside hospital, Pittsburgh. He was born September 24, 1923, in New Geneva, a son of Irwin Samuel and Thelma Mallory Bakewell.
Mr. Bakewell was a 1941 graduate of Brownsville High School and resided in Greensboro R.D.1 for the past eight years.
During World War II, he served in the U.S. Army with the 517th Parachute Infantry in the European Theater, for which he received a Bronze Star with three oak leaf clusters.
Mr. Bakewell worked as a service engineer for Weatherite Co. in Los Angeles, Calif., and was a former member of Reserve Engineers Service Society. He was Baptist.
Mr. Bakewell was a former member of Arizona Sheriff's Posse and a member of Cumberland American Legion Post 400 in Carmichaels, American Legion Post 44 of Scottsdale, Ariz., and a member-at-large of Veterans of Foreign Wars.
Friends will be received at the YOSKOVICH FUNERAL HOME, Martin J. Yoskovich, Funeral Director, 300 South Vine Street, Route 88, Carmichaels, Pa. A Funeral Service will be held Dec. 18, in the Funeral Home with the Rev. Roger C. Saunders officiating.
Additional visitation will take place on Saturday, December 21, at Rose Hill Memorial Park and Mortuary, Whittier, California, where interment will follow.
Mr. Bakewell was a 1941 graduate of Brownsville High School and resided in Greensboro R.D.1 for the past eight years.
During World War II, he served in the U.S. Army with the 517th Parachute Infantry in the European Theater, for which he received a Bronze Star with three oak leaf clusters.
Mr. Bakewell worked as a service engineer for Weatherite Co. in Los Angeles, Calif., and was a former member of Reserve Engineers Service Society. He was Baptist.
Mr. Bakewell was a former member of Arizona Sheriff's Posse and a member of Cumberland American Legion Post 400 in Carmichaels, American Legion Post 44 of Scottsdale, Ariz., and a member-at-large of Veterans of Foreign Wars.
Friends will be received at the YOSKOVICH FUNERAL HOME, Martin J. Yoskovich, Funeral Director, 300 South Vine Street, Route 88, Carmichaels, Pa. A Funeral Service will be held Dec. 18, in the Funeral Home with the Rev. Roger C. Saunders officiating.
Additional visitation will take place on Saturday, December 21, at Rose Hill Memorial Park and Mortuary, Whittier, California, where interment will follow.
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