Portugal Friends: PILOT’S FRIENDS PRAY, REFLECT,
OCEANA-BASED AVIATOR PRESUMED DEAD AFTER SUNDAY CRASH INTO ADRIATIC SEA
The Navy Monday night declared Lt. Cmdr. Robert Edward Clukey lost at sea and presumed dead. The pilot was missing after his Oceana-based fighter jet crashed into the Adriatic Sea on Sunday.Clukey, 33, from Bangor, Maine, was assigned to Strike Fighter Squadron 34 and had been stationed in Virginia Beach for about three years. He was piloting an F/A-18 Hornet from the Norfolk-based carrier George Washington on a routine training exercise when he disappeared. Earlier Monday night at a…
Portugal Friends: LITTLE CORNER OF EUROPE
THREE WEEKS BARELY ENOUGH TIME TO EXPLORE PORTUGAL
As we prepared for our trip to Portugal by listening to Portugese language tapes, I learned “Onde fica casa de banho?” (Where is the bathroom?). My wife easily learned “Quanto custa?” (How much?).Believing that we had adequately divided our foreign language responsibilities, we landed in Lisbon before I learned the word for left (esquerda) and before Grace could count above 100. I could only find bathrooms to the right, and Grace could not…
Portugal Friends: AMARAL. CELESTE DE JESUS NUNES PEREIRA AMARAL
AMARAL. Celeste de Jesus Nunes Pereira Amaral, 79, of Hartford, widow of Eduardo Amaral, died Thursday (Jan. 23, 1997) at Hartford Hospital. She was born in Beduido, Estarreja, Portugal and resided in Hartford for over nine years. She was a communicant of Our Lady of Fatima Church. Mrs. Pereira is survived by her son and daughter-in-law, Antonio and Maria Amaral and her grandchildren, Antonio Manuel Amaral and Christina Maria Amaral all of Newington. The funeral will be Monday (Jan. 27), 8 :15…
Portugal Friends: Peterborough Evening Telegraph: TRAGEDY: Dead gran’s dream comes true
A GRAN, who scrimped on a meagre wage to send her grandson to university, died in a car crash not knowing her dream had come true.Such was her burning ambition to see 18-year-old Luis become the first member of the family to get a degree that Cidalina Oliveira (57) left her family in Germany to work in an onion packing factory near Peterborough, to fund his chance of a better future. The devoted grandmother, of Harris Street, Millfield, Peterborough died travelling to work at dawn with two…
Portugal Friends: PAID OBITUARIES
BROWARD COUNTY BERMAN – Libby, of Ft. Lauderdale, FL died April 3, 1994. Levitt Weinstein Memorial Chapel, Tamarac.* BRANDSTON – Ida, of N. Lauderdale, FL died April 6, 1994. Mason Funeral Home, Tamarac.* BRANTLEY – Ben, 52 of Ft. Lauderdale, FL died April 4, 1994.* COHEN – Sylvia, 71 of Tamarac, FL died April 6, 1994. Star of David Memorial Chapel, N. Lauderdale.* DEUTSCH – Beatrice, 80 of Ft. Lauderdale, FL died April 5, 1994. Riverside/Gordon Memorial Chapel, Tamarac.* …