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Daily Independent newspaper Ridgecrest CA Kern County
February 5, 2002

MARTIN PATRICK KILLIAN

Ridgecrest resident and former longtime Trona resident Martin Patrick Killian died Sunday, Feb. 3, at Ridgecrest Regional Hospital in Ridgecrest. He was 87.

Interment will be at Desert Memorial Park in Ridgecrest. A graveside service is planned for a later date.

Mr. Killian was born Oct. 12, 1914 in Hamill, S.D. and had been a resident of Trona for 55 years. He retired in 1979 from employment as a lead man with Stauffer Chemical Company in Trona and moved to Ridgecrest in March 2000. He served in the U.S. Army from 1943 to 1946 and was a member of American Legion Post 684.

Mr. Killian is survived by his wife Grace R. Killian of Ridgecrest; brother Bernard Killian of Cape Coral, Fla.; five nieces and one nephew of Omaha, Neb.; one niece of Anchorage, Alaska; and two nephews of Oklahoma City, Okla.

Daily Independent newspaper Ridgecrest CA Kern County
February 7, 2002