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Death notices are provided to The News Tribune once per month by the Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department. Here are the deaths for January 2023.
Joan Olive Robinson Hill (February 6, 1931 – March 19, 1969) was a socialite and equestrian from Houston, Texas. Her unexplained death at age 38 led to her husband, John Hill, becoming the first person to be indicted by the state of Texas on the charge of murder by omission. The case precipitated a series of events that included the 1972 ...
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August 14, 1992. West Laurel Hill Cemetery is a historic rural cemetery located in Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania. It was founded in 1869, is 200 acres (81 hectares) in size, and contains the burials of many notable people. It is affiliated with Laurel Hill Cemetery in nearby Philadelphia. The cemetery property is an accredited arboretum and has an ...
Ezra Morgan Meeker [a] (December 29, 1830 – December 3, 1928) was an American pioneer who traveled the Oregon Trail by ox-drawn wagon as a young man, migrating from Iowa to the Pacific Coast. Later in life he worked to memorialize the Trail, repeatedly retracing the trip of his youth. Once known as the "Hop King of the World", he was the ...
420 years in prison ( overturned) On November 29, 2009, four police officers of Lakewood, Washington were fatally shot at the Forza (now Blue Steele [1]) Coffee shop, located at 11401 Steele Street #108 South in the Parkland unincorporated area of Pierce County, Washington, near Tacoma. A gunman, later identified as Maurice Clemmons, entered ...
The name "Puyallup" is an anglicization of the Lushootseed word spuyaləpabš. The name means "people of the bend (at the bottom of the river)," [2] literally s√puy=áləp=abš, from the root √puy̓, 'curve'; the suffix =alap, 'leg or hip'; and the suffix =abš, 'people'. [1] The name refers to the population center of the Puyallup near the ...
Home & Garden. Lighter Side. News. Online Classes. Science & Tech. Shopping. Sports. Weather. FAA won't allow Boeing to boost 737 MAX production yet. David Shepardson. May 30, 2024 at 1:51 PM.