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Nimitz, Jr., Chester, RADM USN(Ret).
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Contact Info
Last Address Brooklyn
Date of Passing Jan 02, 2002
Location of Interment Pleasant Hill Cemetery - Wellfleet, Massachusetts
Wall/Plot Coordinates Row 11, Lot 7B
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Last Known Activity:
As the devoted couple had spent their lives together [63 years], so they decided to end their lives together. The admiral's final order read:
"Our decision was made over a considerable period of time and was not carried out in acute desperation. Nor is it the expression of a mental illness. We have consciously, rationally, deliberately and of our own free will taken measures to end our lives today because of the physical limitations on our quality of life placed upon us by age, failing vision, osteoporosis, back and painful orthopedic problems."
NEC 112X-Unrestricted Line Officer - Submarine Warfare
Base, Station or City Pearl Harbor
State/Country Hawaii
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USS Sturgeon (SS-187) Details
USS Sturgeon (SS-187)
Salmon Class Fleet (Diesel) Submarine
Built by: Mare Island Navy Yard (Vallejo, California)
Laid Down: 27 Oct 1936
Launched: 15 Mar 1938
Commissioned: 25 Jun 1938
Decommissioned: 15 Nov 1945
Stricken: 30 Mar 1948
Sold: 12 Jun 1948 -- To be broken up for scrap.