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Lee Howze, CTT3
to remember
Novak, Anthony (Tony), CT1 USN(Ret).
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Contact Info
Home Town St. Joseph
Last Address 2819 Lost Field Ln Richmond, Tx 77406
Date of Passing Nov 08, 2015
Location of Interment Houston National Cemetery (VA) - Houston, Texas
Anthony was born on July 28, 1940 and passed away on Sunday, November 8, 2015.
Anthony was a resident of Richmond, Texas.
A Memorial Mass for Anthony Tony Joseph Novak 75 of Richmond TX will be 10 AM Friday November 13 2015 at Sacred Heart Catholic Church 507 S 4th Street Richmond TX 77469. Visitation will be 6 - 8:30 PM Thursday November 12 2015 at Sacred Heart Catholic Church with a Rosary beginning at 7 PM. Services are under the direction of Garmany Carden Funeral Directors 1201 Fourth Street Rosenberg TX 77471 281342-4671.
Other Comments:
Give a shout if your in the Richmond area. All grand children sports.
Can usually be found at Joseph's Coffee shop, in Richmond, on Morton St. between 7 & 9.
We can now cross another C&E company off the list.
Retirement is a test, I am already getting antzy to get back to Source Expediting.
Reestablished our selves in Richmond, Texas
Back at our long time Church, Sacred Heart of Richmond
Transferred back into the Richmond, Knights of Columbus
and the Rosenberg/Richmond 4th Degree Knights of Columbus
have hopes of getting back active in the Knights.
Sandy and I are long time members of "Teams Of Our Lady" TOOL. A family oriented small faith group. www.teamsofourlady.org/ We first joined in 1982 and took a few years off recently as we moved about the country, and are now once again active in a new TEAM here in Richmond. Our daughter and her husband actually belong to the TEAM we began in, none of the former members remain.
Sandy is a part of PEO, Philanthropic Educational Organization, www.peointernational.org/ an awesome group doing great things.
Myself, I am looking to cleaning the mess that I have been accumulating over the years. I would like to digitize my photos, a couple of thousand slides "O boy!" More prints than that..task 1. Number 2 work or restablishing myself as a coin collector. Don't know how that will work? Now that so much is available in music, I can build my personal libray. Lots to do!
Remembrance Profiles -
1 Sailor Remembered
Bass, Larry, CPO
1961-1961, SK-0000, Navy Recruiting Station Washington, DC
Best Moment Finding out that I was being assigned to NSGA GEOGRAPHY LESSON "The early ' 60s saw many of us return to active duty. The receiving station at Anacostia, across the river from Washington, D.C., was the place many of us were assigned to while waiting for Orders to our future Navy homes. It was here in 1961 that I encountered my first "CT". As a seagoing storekeeper, I had never seen one that I knew of. Life at the Receiving Station, after morning muster, was full of "kill time" assignments that sent you about the station and out of the Master-at-Arms hair. Since we were almost all third, second or first class petty officers, we did our share of supervising this leaf brigade, or other cleanup details. Like a proper sailor, I was prepared to await the roll of the dice and accept whatever the future held for me in the way of orders. Not so these "CT's". They were on the telephone every day to "their detailer", arguing, cussing and a fussin'. About half would get what they wanted, or, at least they were prepared for the phrase on the orders that said, "Transfer to." About that time Anacostia was swamped with CT's, so a Storekeeper was really out of place. These guys didn't even know how to spell ship, and did not expect orders to any type of seagoing duty. Honest! (1961! Things have changed since then) Well, one evening, while lounging around the recreation room, one of them asked me if I had called the detailer? "What?", I asked. "How do you do that?" "You don't know the phone number for your detailer?" "Here, call mine, he might have something for you!" The next morning I placed my first telephone call to the BUPERS detailer, as it turned out, the Naval Security Group detailer. "Detailer, Chief Novak, how can I help you?" "Chief, this is Storekeeper Second Class Novak. I was told you could help me with a duty assignment." Chief Novak responded in a friendly manner. "Where do you want to go?" "Well, Chief, I like the West Coast!" After what seemed a truly short pause, he came back at me. "You're in luck, I just happen to have a set of West Coast orders for a Storekeeper on my desk. Do you want them?" "Wow, sure and thanks." "We'll cut the orders today. They will be at Anacostia by day after tomorrow." True to his word, the PN from the Receiving Station called the Galley and asked me to report to fill out some paper work. The Galley was a temporary assignment, where, it seems that the First Class Commissaryman Cook who ran the galley office had been hospitalized. They needed an office manager ASAP and I was available. So, I had been working in that position for about four weeks. In fact, that morning the Supply Officer, a Lieutenant Commander, who was in charge of the Galley, had just told me the job was mine if I wanted it for a permanent assignment. Off to Personnel I went. At that office, a person named Carolyn, flopped a bundle of papers on the counter when I came in. "Here, start filling these out. You have to have a Security Clearance for these orders." "Wait a minute, what's a clearance?" "This unit gets a security clearance for all their troops. Start writing!" "What ship is it and which homeport? San Diego or Long Beach?" "Neither one, you're going to Bremerhaven, Germany." "Germany! No, there must be some mistake. That Chief at BUPERS told me I was going to the West Coast!" Well, one of the CT's quickly came to the rescue. Taking me over to the large world map on the wall, he explained it to me that, "Bremerhaven, is indeed on the west coast of Germany!"
Oh, how different life might have been had I staid at Anacostia. The kids would have called Carolyn mom and we might have ended up in south Georgia?:)
Worst Moment Finding out that I was being assigned to a group called NSGA-Bremerhaven. The detailer had promised me west coast. (West Coast of Germany was not a consideration!)
Other Memories Meeting my first CT's Filling out my first BI request