The Berkshire Eagle Pittsfield, Massachusetts
Erwin H.'Combs,- 68, of Miami, Fla., resident and former Pittsfield printer who twice in his lifetime read newspaper accounts of his death, was very much alive when he called recently at The Eagle office with his bride of eight months. Combs, who made Ripley's "Believe It or Not" column, was reported to have drowned when he was 11, and later was reported by the St. Louis Globe Democrat, for whom he worked as a printer, as having succumbed after a serious illness of 10 weeks.
Erwin H.'Combs,- 68, of Miami, Fla., resident and former Pittsfield printer who twice in his lifetime read newspaper accounts of his death, was very much alive when he called recently at The Eagle office with his bride of eight months. Combs, who made Ripley's "Believe It or Not" column, was reported to have drowned when he was 11, and later was reported by the St. Louis Globe Democrat, for whom he worked as a printer, as having succumbed after a serious illness of 10 weeks.
The Berkshire Eagle Pittsfield, Massachusetts
Erwin H.'Combs,- 68, of Miami, Fla., resident and former Pittsfield printer who twice in his lifetime read newspaper accounts of his death, was very much alive when he called recently at The Eagle office with his bride of eight months. Combs, who made Ripley's "Believe It or Not" column, was reported to have drowned when he was 11, and later was reported by the St. Louis Globe Democrat, for whom he worked as a printer, as having succumbed after a serious illness of 10 weeks.
Erwin H.'Combs,- 68, of Miami, Fla., resident and former Pittsfield printer who twice in his lifetime read newspaper accounts of his death, was very much alive when he called recently at The Eagle office with his bride of eight months. Combs, who made Ripley's "Believe It or Not" column, was reported to have drowned when he was 11, and later was reported by the St. Louis Globe Democrat, for whom he worked as a printer, as having succumbed after a serious illness of 10 weeks.
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