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Aten, Raymond Levere, LT USN(Ret).
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Contact Info
Last Address Wylie TX
Date of Passing Nov 04, 2012
Location of Interment Saint Columbus Cemetery - Middletown, Rhode Island
Wylie, TX: Qualified in submarines on the USS Becuna (SS-319) in 1946 and was a LT(SC) when he left the Navy.
We regret to inform you that on Sunday November 4th at 6:20 pm Raymond Aten passed away at Baylor Hospital in Garland, Tx. He was diagnosised with acute pneumonia and congestive heart failure after being admitted on Monday October 29th 2012. Raymond fought hard with the strength he showed throughout his life and died peacefully surrounded by his family. There will be a small memorial ceremony at St. Anthony's Catholic Church in Wylie Tx on Friday November 9th 2012 at 7:30 pm. We ask that instead of flowers that donations be sent to either Knights of Columbus: Lafayette Council 514 P.O Box 544 Dover, NJ 07801 or Saint Judes. Both Puline and Raymond will be enturned at St. Columba's Catholic Cementary at 55 VAUCLUSE AVENUE MIDDLETOWN RHODE ISLAND 02842 in Mid-June 2013.
Other Memories Baya was recommissioned 10 February 1948 and converted to an electronics experimental submarine. Reclassified Auxiliary Research Submarine, AGSS-318, 12 August 1949, Baya has since conducted experiments for the Naval Electronics Laboratory San Diego, Calif., participated in local operations near San Diego; and has served with the joint American-Canadian Task Force gathering scientific data off western Canada in November and December 1948. During July?September 1949 she made a cruise to the Arctic to gather valuable scientific data in the Bering and Chukchi Seas.
