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TAPS
The Men Who Have Recently Passed
Away
USS San Francisco (CA-38)
 Ted
Tupper,
CA-38, Pearl Harbor Survivor, had a
massive heart heart attack and died,
Easter Sunday, march 23, 2008.
Ted Tupper
Story |
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Jay
Thompson,
USMC,
passed away at home in his sleep today,
March 12, 2008.
Jay
Thompson Story |
Ray
Jacobs,
the last surviving
Iwo Jima flag
raiser, died last
night, January 29,
2008. Interviewed
the gentleman in
November 2006 in
South Lake Tahoe
for an oral
history and he was
the featured speaker
at the USS San
Francisco Memorial
weekend service last
May 2007.
America lost a great
man.
http://www.ktvu.com/video/15182312/index.html
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Donald
Yates, passed away
1985. |
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Eddie
Edmonds
Crew Member of
Sparks, Nevada passed away Nov
29, 2007 – He was 82yrs. |
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Harold
Bean
USS San Francisco
crew member and Pearl Harbor survivor,
(1941-42 S Div.) passed away on
12/7/2007 from natural causes. He would
have been 87yrs on 12/14. |
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Nicholas
Holtz
Virginia Holtz notified us that
her husband Nicholas (1941-45 4th Div.),
passed away Aug 29 2007 from
Parkinson’s. |
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Capt.
Vincent J. Colan, USNR
93,
of Hendersonville, died Wednesday,
August 15, 2007 at Pardee Hospital.
The Capt. Vincent J. Colan Story |
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Cecil
J. Cran
May 20,
1924 -
July 26,
2007
The
Cecil J. Cran Story |
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CDR Robert
Crouter USNA '48, was the son of
San Francisco XO CDR Mark Crouter killed
aboard San Francisco 12-13 Nov '42
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Charles W. Lindberg, one of the U.S. Marines who raised the first American flag over Iwo Jima during World War II, has died. He was 86.
Lindberg died Sunday June 24, 2007 at Fairview Southdale hospital in the Minneapolis suburb of Edina,
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The Charles W. Lindberg Story |
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Lyle
D. Williams March 9th, 1914 - June 26th,
2007 Resident of Pleasant Hill Lyle
Williams died in
Walnut Creek June 26th at age 93.
Lyle was born in Eaglerock,
CA |
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The Lyle D. Williams Story |
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BLUE ASH
- Bob Miller, director of the farm
department at WLW-AM for 35 years, died Tuesday
of cancer at Hospice of Cincinnati. He was 87.
The Bob
Miller Story |
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CDR Dick
Lowe USNA '42 ,The April 2006 Naval
Academy Alumni Magazine lists the deaths
of CDR Dick Lowe USNA '42, CDR Lowe
reported aboard San Francisco in '42 . |
Owsley, Raymond Mr.,
CA-38 plankowner
dies
Wednesday, June
27, 2007
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The Raymond Owsley Story |
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St. George, Mike Crewman, passed away in
1998 at the age of 75. Mike St. George
is one of the names on the list of
wounded at the Land's End memorial. |
Melville C. Smith
SMITH, Melville C.
— Age 83, of Winston,
Oregon, passed away
on June 2, 2006, in
Eugene, Oregon.
The Melville C, Smith Story
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USS San Francisco SSN 711 |
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Machinist Mate 2nd Class Joseph
Allen Ashley (U.S.N.), a lifelong resident of
Manchester, Ohio, went home to be with the Lord
on Sunday, Jan. 9, at the age of 24.
The
Joseph Allen Ashley Story |
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