ARECIBO, Puerto Rico -- Warren Alger James, 78, of Arecibo, an Army
Air Force radar navigator in both World War II and the Korean War, died of
melanoma cancer at home Monday 5 14 01 after a long illness.
      Mr. James was business manager for Capitas in Arecibo, a human
services agency for the mentally ill operated by his wife, Dr. Maria
Magdalena James-Bernat Cabo, and daughter, Rita Torre-James, of Arecibo.
      Past president of the Arecibo Rotary Club, he promoted friendships
between clubs in Puerto Rico, the U.S. and other countries. He wasa FEMA
representative working with families that lost their homes in the last
hurricane.
      Mr. James operated Ricky's Restaurant in Hotel Mir on the Arecibo
Plaza, a gathering place for Americans beginning business operations in
Puerto Rico. He owned the Jefferson Print in Arecibo, taught at the Arecibo
branch of the University of Puerto Rico and was maintenance engineer for
the Catholic University branch in Arecibo.
      He received the Western Pacific medal, the Air Force medal and the
United Nations medal for service with the 314th Army Air Force Composite
Wing on Guam during World War II, and as a B29 radar operator with the
345th Bomber Squadron in the Korean War.
      Mr. James was born in Brockton and lived at the Alger homestead in
West Bridgewater and in East Bridgewater before the family moved to
Farmingdale and Pinelawn, Long Island, NY. His late father, Locke leBaron
James, was vice president of the State University of New York in Farmingdale.
>      After graduating from Farmingdale High School, he worked at Ranger
> Engines and attended the City College of New York before joining the
> service in 1944. He received the Good Citizen award from Sampson College
> in Upstate New York founded to accommodate returning veterans. He
> received a degree in industrial engineering from Stanford Univeresity in
> Palo Alto, Calif. and took courses in restaurant management at Cornell
> University in Ithaca, N.Y.
         In addition to his wife and daughter, Mr. James is survived by
five sons, Ricardo James of Jakarta, Indonesia, Francisco James of 
Longwood, Fla., Warren Antonio James of Manhattan, William James of Arecibo
and Roberto James of North Hollywood, Calif.; another daughter, Magdalena
Pederson-James of Winterville, N.C; 12 grandchildren; two sisters,
Katharine Alger Fulkerson of Jeffersontown, Ky., and Dorothy James Newell
of North Weymouth, nieces, nephews, grandnieces, grandnephews in the South
Shore.
         A funeral Mass was celebrated Tuesday morning 5 15 01 in the
Chapel Santa Cruz at the Funeraria Capillas Gonzalez. Burial was in the
National Cemetery in Bayamon.
Memorial gifts maybe made to
Friends of the Homeless of the South Shore
8 Driftway, Weymouth 02191

or Fundacion Sindrome Down
Arecibo Rotary Club
P.O. Box 572, Arecibo, Puerto Rico 00613,