Jean E. Beeby, 87, of Titusville, Fla. passed away on June 15, 2004. She was the widow of the late Pastor William H. Beeby of the First Baptist Church of Balboa Heights, Canal Zone. They resided in the Canal Zone for 32 years and then moved to Titusville. Pastor Beeby died in April 1993.


Edward H. Browder, 71, of Niskayuna, N.Y. died on January 3, 2005. He was born in 1933 and grew up in the Panama Canal Zone, graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1955, earned his MBA at Penn State University and served 23 years of active duty with the submarine service. Following his Navy retirement he worked primarily in the nuclear power industry.

Bruce E. Caldwell of Big Foot, Texas died February 1, 2005 after a short illness. He was born in Ancon in 1939 and graduated from BHS in 1957. After completing an enlistment in the Air Force in 1960, he returned to Panama where he worked with the postal service until 1969.

Paul Louis Elia Jr., 58, of Lusby, Md. died January 26, 2005. He was raised in the Panama Canal Zone and graduated from BHS in 1965. He was a Chief Petty Officer for 13 years with the U.S. Navy from 1964 to 1977 and remained an active reservist until retiring in 1991. 

John Joseph Fallon, 84, of Dothan, Ala. died December 4, 2004. He moved to the Canal Zone in 1942, enlisted in the Army in WWII. After WWII, he returned to the Canal Zone and retired as chief of payroll branch in 1978. 

Celeste Powell Fulton, 71, of Playa del Rey, Calif. died on December 8, 2004. She was born in Gorgas Hospitl and graduated from BHS in 1951. She attended Colorado A&M and Arizona State and graduated with a BA in Education in 1955, and eventually received her Master’s Degree in California. After a long teaching career in the California school system, she retired in 1993.

Paul Gorin, 83, of Boca Raton, Fla. passed away on October 15, 2004. He moved to Colon in 1926 with his family, graduated from CHS, and served in the U.S. Army at Fort Sherman. He and his wife Clara Nathanson spent many years in Colon.

Margaret C. Grier, 84, of Fullerton, Calif. died January 2, 2005. She was born in the Panama Canal Zone on October 24, 1920. She received her Bachelor’s Degree in political science and public administration from the University of Chicago, and her Master’s Degree in sociology and criminology from Whittier College. She worked for the Red Cross in Europe in WWII, in Orange County from 1948 to 1981, and spent her retirement years traveling the world.

Evelyn G. Hayes, 93, of St. Petersburg, Fla. died September 21, 2004. She was the widow of the late Troy Hayes, Past President of the Panama Canal Society (1957-1958).

Jean Dennis Herbert died October 20, 2004 in Trenton, N.J. She was born in Colon in 1918 and graduated from BHS in 1937. She graduated as a Registered Nurse in 1942 from McKinley Hospital and retired from active nursing there in 1980 but continued as a volunteer until 1994.

Theodore “Ted Kaufer, 79, of Tampa, Fla. passed away on November 8, 2004. He was born in Ancon, Canal Zone and graduated from CHS in 1942 and also graduated from Texas A&M University. He worked for the Panama Canal Company at the Mt. Hope Oil Handling Plant for 28 years. 

Thomas J. LaPatka, 87, of St. Petersburg, Fla. died December 13, 2004. He retired as an Army lieutenant colonel in 1970 after 30 years of service and came to Florida from the Panama Canal Zone in 1971. 

F. Earl Linkogle, 80, of St. Petersburg, Fla. died December 3, 2004. He retired as a chief mechanical engineer after 11 years of service for the Panama Canal Commission.