Two more shipmates are on the final cruise:
Fair sailing shipmates, stand the watch untill relieved!
ABH1 RETIRED SID HIXSON, lost his short battle with brain cancer, saturday morning 17 April 2004. Services will be held Tuesday 20 April 2004 at the Armed Forces Retirement Home (formerly the Naval Home) in Gulfport, Mississippi at 0930. In lieu of flowers his daughter Lisa has authorized donations to the
Aviation Boatswain's Mates Association
P.O. Box 1106 - Naval Base
Lakehurst, NJ 08733
1-732-657-4749
ABE1(AW)Ret Joseph Gray passed on to a higher being the morning of 17 April 2004 after a long battle with cancer, he was a great freind and longtime shipmate.
He will be dearly missed
Viewing will be from 16-2000, Monday at Pable Evertz Funeral Home 901 Beaverdam RD Point Pleasant, NJ
Mass will be held Tuesday at 9:00 at St Peters Roman Catholic church Point Pleasant Beach, NJ
Donations in lieu of Flowers can be sent to the
Carly Ann Roncin Fund
1602 Lauckson Place
Point Pleasant, NJ 08742
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"I fly this plane for my country, when it stops flying it's not my fault, it's the countrys." CDR Fred "Bear" Vogt. The Last Skipper of VF-33's, F-4's.
A veteran - whether active duty, retired, national guard or reserve - is someone who, at one point in his life, wrote a blank check made payable to "The United States of America", for an amount of "up to and including my life." That is honor, and there are way too many people in this country who no longer understand it. -- Author Unknown
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