Fergus Roe Barton Jr., age 55, of Lake City, passed away August 25, 2018 at the Munson Medical Center in Traverse City. Fergus was a very proud Marine, serving in the US Marine Corps for eight years.

Sen. John McCain's service to his country began at the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis and will end there in a cemetery overlooking Maryland's Severn River. A private burial service next Sunday will conclude nearly a week of events honoring the Arizona Republican, who died of brain cancer Saturday at 81. Plans call for McCain to lie in state Wednesday in the Arizona State Capitol on what would have been his 82nd birthday.

Host Jake Tapper noted on CNN's "State of the Union" that McCain didn't invite Trump to his funeral and that the president once mocked McCain, who died from brain cancer at the age of 81, for being captured during the Vietnam War. Tapper asked Flake if Trump's presence in the White House would make McCain "all the more missed."

Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey speaks at a roundtable during an event to salute U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers and U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Aug. 20, 2018. Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey speaks at a roundtable during an event to salute U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers and U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Aug. 20, 2018.

Arizona Senator John McCain inspired the nation with his character, heroism, humility and public service. Here's a look back at some of the "Maverick's" most memorable speeches and off-the-cuff remarks.

Polygamous family members from TV's 'Sister Wives' say they have moved to Arizona after seven years in Las Vegas because they still feel hostility toward plural families in their home state of Utah. Polygamous family members from TV's 'Sister Wives' say they have moved to Arizona after seven years in Las Vegas because they still feel hostility toward plural families in their home state of Utah.

In this May 2, 2018 file photo, Arizona Republican U.S. Senate candidate Kelli Ward speaks to the media as she prepares to file her nominating petitions at the state Capitol in Phoenix. Ward, running for her party's nomination for an open Senate seat, suggested the announcement that McCain was ending medical treatment was intended to hurt her campaign hours before Sen. John McCain died on Saturday, Aug. 25. [Bob Christie Kelli Ward, a U.S. Senate hopeful and a onetime rival of Sen. John McCain, is facing a torrent of criticism after she appeared to suggest that his announcement Friday to halt medical treatment for his brain cancer was timed to hurt her campaign.

In this April, 1981 file photo, Senator Paul Laxalt , appears on ABC's Good Morning America television show in Washington. Laxalt, the conservative Republican who rose to political power as a Nevada governor, U.S. senator and close ally to Ronald Reagan has died at age 96. A public relations firm says he died Monday, Aug. 6, 2018, at a health care facility in Virginia.

Raymond A. Boslett, 81, Hollidaysburg, formerly of Red Hill, Altoona, died Tuesday at the HollidaysA burg Veterans Home, after an extended illness. He was born in Spangler, son of the late Raymond M. and Agatha Boslett.

John was born in Royal Oak, Mich., on Aug. 16, 1928. He attended Olivet College, where he met his wife of 68 years, Margaret Beyer Henricks.

Audrey Burgdorf Awl, 95, of Grottoes, passed away on July 27, 2018, in Bridgewater Retirement Community in Bridgewater. Mrs. Awl was born to Harry Walton Redmile and Helen Rasin Redmile on Jan. 11, 1923.

This cross-shaped war monument in Bladensburg, Md., stands 40 feet tall as a memorial to residents who died in World War I. This cross-shaped war monument in Bladensburg, Md., stands 40 feet tall as a memorial to residents who died in World War I. Newport Beach's American Legion post is supporting the national American Legion in a U.S. Supreme Court fight over the constitutionality of a publicly maintained cross-shaped World War I memorial in Maryland. At issue is the Bladensburg World War I Memorial, which a local American Legion post erected in 1925 to honor 49 men from Prince George's County, Md., who died in the Great War.

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About 300 people gathered in a parking lot outside a tourism business to remember the 17 people killed when one of its duck boats capsized in storm-tossed water. The mourners Friday night sang Amazing Grace and prayed, some of them holding candles.

State Corrections Commissioner Tom Roy confirms the death of Joseph Gomm at the Department of Corrections, Wednesday, July 18, 2018, in St. Paul, Minn. A corrections officer has died after he was assaulted by an inmate at the Stillwater state prison, prompting a lockdown at Minnesota's prison system.