August 2006

Patricia Susan Cotton died July 24, 2006 in San Antonio, Texas. Sue graduated from Balboa High School in 1965 and married George H. Cotton on April 15, 1966. She worked for MEDDAC in Panama and continued her government career with the Army after moving to San Antonio. She was a member of the Panama Canal Society.

Marsha Nell (Webster) Green died June 20, 2006 in Austin, Texas. In 1941, at the age of three, she moved with her parents to the Panama Canal Zone. She graduated from Balboa High School in 1955 and from the Canal Zone College in 1957. 

Robert K. Hanna, 94, of Clearwater, Fla. died July 28, 2006 at Manor Care of Palm Harbor. He came to Florida in 1972 from the Panama Canal Zone after retiring from the Accounting Division with 38 years of Government service. He was a member of the Panama Canal Society.

 Mary Rita (Cryan) Lade, 83, died December 12, 2004 in Fountain Valley, Calif. She graduated from Balboa High School in 1939. She was a member of the Panama Canal Society.

Warren Edmond LeDoux, 79, of DeLand, Fla. died June 10, 2006. He was employed for most of his career by the Panama Canal Company in the former Canal Zone, retiring in 1979. He was a member of the Panama Canal Society.

Jeanne C. Townsend, 88, of El Cajon, Calif. died May 25, 2006. She traveled to the Panama Canal Zone to work as a nurse just before WWII where she met her late husband, Harry Townsend. She was a member of the Panama Canal Society.

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