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Last Address Kingsport, Tennessee
Date of Passing May 04, 2021
Location of Interment Salling-Grizzle Cemetery - Fort Blackmore, Virginia
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KINGSPORT - Shannon Scott Arrington, 49, Kingsport, TN passed away, Tuesday, May 4, 2021 at Wellmont Holston Valley Medical Center.
Shannon was born in Sullivan County, TN on August 11, 1971 and was the son of the late Billy Cecil Arrington and Lola (Salling) Brock.
He retired from the United States Navy as a Chief Petty Officer and was employed as Project Manager with Locknet.
In addition to his parents, his brother, Randall Malcom Arrington preceded him in death.
Shannon is survived by his daughter, Cydnie Stapleton and husband, Brandon, Kingsport, TN; son, Roan Arrington and Makenzie Garrett, Johnson City, TN; grandchildren, Cooper (Super Cooper) Stapleton and Brynley Stapleton; adopted daughter, Logan Rentfrow, Big Stone Gap, VA; adopted son, Josh Arrington, Big Stone Gap, VA; father, Larry Bledsoe, Kingsport, TN; sister, Donna (Arrington ) Williams and husband, Tony, Gate City, VA and Andrea Begley and husband, Arron, Kingsport, TN; brothers, Billy Wayne Arrington, Kingsport, TN and Gerald Ray Arrington, Gate City, VA; step mother, Lois Arrington, Kingsport, TN; nieces, Sheena Davenport and husband, Brad, Mount Carmel, TN and Tisha Griffis and husband, Jeremy, Gate City, VA; along with several other nieces, and great nieces and nephews, and many friends.
The family will receive friends from 5-7 p.m., Thursday, May 6, 2021 at Gate City Funeral Home. Funeral services will be conducted at 7:00 p.m. in the Gene Falin Memorial Chapel of the funeral home with Rev. Billy Wayne Arrington and Evangelist Tyer McMullins officiating. Billy Wayne Arrington will provide the music.
Military graveside services will be conducted by the American Legion Hammond Post #3, Kingsport, TN and Post #265, Gate City, VA at 11:00 a.m., Friday, May 7, 2021 at the Salling Grizzle Cemetery, Ft. Blackmore, VA. Jeremy Griffis, Brandon Stapleton, Brad Davenport, Alex Spivey, Randall Spivey, and Nate Williams will serve as pallbearers.
The family would like to thank the medical staff of Wellmont Holston Valley Medical Center; especially Autumn and Ken for their love and care of Shannon.
Family and friends are asked to meet at the Salling Grizzle Cemetery for the graveside service.
An online guest register is available for the Arrington family at www.gatecityfunerals.com.
Gate City Funeral Home is honored to be serving the family of Shannon Scott Arrington.
1990-1993, ST-0455, USS Barry (DDG-52)
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NEC ST-0455-AN/SQS-53C Sonar Subsystem Level II Technician
Base, Station or City norfolk
State/Country Virginia
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USS Barry (DDG-52) Details
USS BARRY (DDG-52)
CLASS - BURKE Flight I As Built.
Displacement 8373 Tons (Full), Dimensions, 504' 7" (oa) x 66' 11" x 20' (Max)
Armament 1 x 5"/54 RF, 2 Phalanx 20mm Guns, 90 VLS Cells,
8 Harpoon Missiles, 6 x 12.75" TT.
Machinery, 100,000 SHP; 4 GE LM-2500 Gas Turbines, 2 screws
Speed, 30+ Knots, Range 4400 NM@ 20 Knots, Crew 370.
Operational and Building Data
Laid down by Litton - Ingalls, Pascagoula Miss. on February 26 1990.
Launched May 10 1991 and commissioned December 12 1992.
Active unit of the US. Navy.
Homeported at Yokosuka, Japan.
Named After: John Barry (1745 - 13 September 1803) was an officer in the Continental Navy during the American Revolutionary War and later in the United States Navy. Barry was born in Tacumshane, County Wexford, Ireland and appointed a Captain in the Continental Navy 7 December 1775. He commanded Lexington and Alliance. He and his crew of the Alliance fought and won the final naval battle of the American Revolution off the coast of Cape Canaveral on March 10, 1783. He was seriously wounded 29 May 1781 while in command of Alliance during her capture of HMS Atalanta and Trepassey. Barry was successful in suppressing three mutinies during his career as an officer in the Continental Navy. Appointed senior captain upon the establishment of the U.S. Navy, he commanded the frigate United States in the Quasi-War with France. Barry authored a Signal Book published in 1780 to improve communications at sea among vessels traveling in formation. Barry also suggested the creation of a Department of the Navy with separate cabinet status from the Secretary of War. This was finally realized with the formation of the United States Department of the Navy in 1798. Barry's suggestions about establishing government-operated navy yards were also realized, and in particular he had a hand in the establishment of the Brooklyn Navy Yard. His 17-year span of national service and his training of so many of the heroes of the War of 1812 under Barry's tutelage earned him the sobriquet, "Father of the Navy." Barry, having recruited a company of volunteers for land service, took part in the Trenton campaign in December 1776. These volunteers and the marines cooperating with them were commended by General George Washington. Barry acted as an aide to General John Cadwalader, and was sent on several occasions as a bearer of important dispatches. His next duty was assisting in the defense of Philadelphia and operations in the upper Delaware River. When the British took possession of Philadelphia in September 1777, Captain Barry was ordered to take the uncompleted Continental frigate Effingham up the Delaware River to a place of safety. In October, the ship was ordered sunk or burned. She was sunk on 2 November, near Bordentown, New Jersey, to deny her use to the British. Commodore Barry died at Strawberry Hill, in present-day Philadelphia on 13 September 1803, and was buried there in St. Mary's Cemetery.
