Obituary: Donald L. Mikeska
HOCKESSIN, Del. - Donald L. Mikeska, 90, died on April 4, 2021 in Hockessin, Del. after a brief illness.
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Donald L. Mikeska
HOCKESSIN, Del. – Donald L. Mikeska, 90, died on April 4, 2021 in Hockessin, Del. after a brief illness.
Don was born in New York, N.Y. and raised in Westfield, N.J. with his brother Alan by his parents Dr. L.A. Mikeska and Olga Krepela Mikeska (all predeceased). He graduated from Lafayette College (Allentown, Pa.) in 1952 with a degree in business and Army ROTC. While at Lafayette, then an all-male college, he attended its 1949 St. Valentine’s dance with Easton Hospital School of Nursing (Bethlehem, Pa.) where he met the love of his life, Patricia Donches. They were married in 1952. After a short honeymoon, they headed to Alabama for officers’ training before Don left for the Korean War. He returned a 1st lieutenant and was honorably discharged in 1960. Don was proud of his military service and often
April 9, 2021
John W. “Jack” Clayton, 84, passed away at his home in Milford Saturday, Jan. 23, 2021. He was born in Latrobe, Pa., Nov. 18, 1936, to the late Bud and Margaret Moore.
Jack proudly served his country for over 20 years with the U.S. Air Force in Michigan, Texas and Delaware and was a veteran of Vietnam. He worked as a production control scheduler at the Hydraulics Specialist and Instrumentalist School. Once stateside, he worked as an electrician for the City of Milford as well as holding many positions at General Foods, retiring from both places.
He enjoyed riding his Harley-Davidson. Jack was a founding member of the Vietnam Vets Motorcycle Club Delaware, serving as sergeant of arms (SOA).
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Delaware News Journal
A Wilmington police officer who opened fire on a man who had been asleep in his running SUV last year has been cleared of criminal wrongdoing.
Officer Luis Vazquez fired three rounds at Jabri Hunter, hitting him twice, after hearing a loud bang, caused by a colleague attempting to break the driver s side window.
The Department of Justice investigation determined that the bang contributed to Vazquez s state of mind that his – and his fellow officers – safety was at risk.
The results of three other police use-of-force inquiries were also released by the Justice Department on Friday. In all four cases, the officers were cleared of criminal wrongdoing. A police officer in Delaware has never been found criminally liable for a shooting.
WILMINGTON, DEL. â The man who randomly gunned down an elderly Elkton couple at a Delaware cemetery in May â while they were visiting their sonâs grave â had a âdoomsday-like attitudeâ purportedly triggered by the coronavirus pandemic, according to a report released by the Delaware Department of Justice.
Sheldon C. Francis, 29, of Middletown, Del., fatally shot Paul C. Marino, 86, and his wife, Lidia, 85, on the grounds of Delaware Veterans Memorial Cemetery in Bear, Del., at approximately 10:15 a.m. on May 8 â before hiding in the nearby woods and later firing at least 78 gunshots at law enforcement officers, striking a DSP armored vehicle, known as a BearCat, numerous times. No officers or other people in that general area were wounded during the incident.