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Home Town Galveston, TX
Last Address Houston, TX
Date of Passing Jun 19, 1948
Location of Interment Oak Cliff Cemetery - Dallas, Texas
Wall/Plot Coordinates Plot: Sec. Old 2 Lot 85
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VICE-ADMIRAL ANDREWS DIES IN HOUSTON NAVAL HOSPITAL
The 3-starred flag of Vice-Admiral Adolphus Andrews, the Dallas man who ran the Navy's war against Nazi subs on the AtlanticCoast, was struck forever Saturday.
He died in the U. S. Naval Hospital at Houston.
Death came after a long illness, to the handsome, 69-year-old man who had been naval aide to three United States Presidents. When Adolphus Andrews entered Annapolis, he was the youngest midshipman in his class. At 38, he was the youngest captain in the Navy. He had held almost every high Navy post except Chief of Naval Operations.
Since retiring because of age in 1943, he had headed the Andrews Investment Company in Dallas and the Waples-Platter Company of Texas. He held a dozen other important business directorates.
USS Mayflower (PY-1) (later as USCG Mayflower (WPG-183)) was the second ship in the United States Navy to have that name. Mayflower, a luxurious steam yacht built in 1896 by J. and G. Thompson, Clydebank, Scotland, was purchased by the Navy from the
