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Kirchgessner, Edwin Pete, TMC USN(Ret).
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Home Town Everett, WA
Last Address Snohomish, WA
Date of Passing Nov 15, 2012
Location of Interment Buried at Sea - N/A, Pacific Ocean
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Last Known Activity:
Edwin rejoined his wife on November 15, 2012. He was born in Everett on May 14, 1920. He enjoyed 92 years of an exciting and full life.
He graduated from Everett High School in 1938 and went on to spend 20 years in the US Navy, 16 of them on submarines, including four years on submarines during WWII in the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. He worked at Sumner Iron Works until retirement at age 62. He and his wife spent the next 20 some years traveling the country in a motor home.
His wife Betty died in November 2010.
His ashes will be taken to sea on a Trident submarine and consigned to the deep through a torpedo tube somewhere in the Pacific Ocean.
Other Comments:
Service number: 3858047
Submarine war patrols: USS Blackfish (SS-221) - 1st through 8th
Other Memories Given hull classification symbol SSR-481 on 20 January 1948, Requin began modification to the MIGRAINE II Radar Picket configuration at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Kittery, Maine. In December she departed the shipyard after competing trials with new radar equipment and reported to New London, Connecticut for duty with Submarine Squadron 8.
In May 1949 she sailed east for her first deployment with the Sixth Fleet. Arriving at Gibraltar on 14 May, she operated in the Mediterranean Sea until 30 June. Soon after her return to New London, Requin was transferred to Norfolk, Virginia, for duty with SubRon 6. Into the spring of 1950, she operated in the western Atlantic, ranging from Nova Scotia to the West Indies.
