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Home Town Oklahoma City, OK
Last Address 2114 Villa Dr Tyler. TX
Date of Passing Apr 03, 2016
Location of Interment Dallas-Fort Worth National Cemetery (VA) - Dallas, Texas
Wall/Plot Coordinates Section 99, Site 718
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Ronald Anthony Addison, 71, of Tyler went to be with his Lord and Savior on Sunday April 3, 2016 in Tyler. Funeral services under the direction of Ingram Funeral Home in Quinlan, Texas with Full Military Honors will be held at 1:00 P.M. Friday, April 15, 2016 at the Dallas-Ft. Worth National Cemetery.
He married the former Miss Maria Carvone on April 11, 1994 and they made their home in Irving before moving to Tyler in 2014. Ronald had been a greeter at Wal-Mart store#1044 in Tyler at the time of his death.
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Ronald was born December 30, 1944 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. He is the son of the late Roland Addison and Patricia Burnhart Addison. He was raised and attended school in Dallas. He entered the United States Navy in 1963 and honorably served our country during Vietnam. He received numerous awards during his military career and retired after 23 years of service.
He is loved and will be missed by his wife Maria of Tyler. Daughters, Patricia Addison of Virginia, Maria Roomets of Maryland and Dawn Wingert & husband Mark of Ohio. Sons, Christopher Johnson and wife Savannah of Tyler and Donald Johnson of Irving. Seven Grandchildren and One Great-Grandson.
Description USS Pueblo (AGER-2) is a Banner-class environmental research ship, attached to Navy intelligence as a spy ship, which was attacked and captured by North Korean forces on 23 January 1968, in what is known today as the "Pueblo incident" or alternatively, as the "Pueblo crisis".
The seizure of the U.S. Navy ship and its 83 crew members, one of whom was killed in the attack, came less than a week after President Lyndon B. Johnson's "State of the Union" address to the United States Congress, just a week before the start of the "Tet Offensive" in South Vietnam during the Vietnam War, and only three days after 31 men of North Korea's "KPA Unit 12" had crossed the Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) and killed 26 South Koreans in an attempt to attack the South Korean "Blue House" (executive mansion) in the capital Seoul. The taking of Pueblo and the abuse and torture of its crew during the subsequent 11-month prisoner drama became a major Cold War incident, raising tensions between the western democracies and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and People's Republic of China.
North Korea stated that Pueblo deliberately entered their territorial waters 7.6 miles away from Ryo Island, and that the logbook shows that they intruded several times. However, the United States maintains that the vessel was in international waters at the time of the incident and that any purported evidence supplied by North Korea to support its statements was fabricated.
Pueblo, still held by North Korea today, officially remains a commissioned vessel of the United States Navy. Since early 2013, the ship has been moored along the Botong River in Pyongyang, and used there as a museum ship at the Pyongyang Victorious War Museum. Pueblo is the only ship of the U.S. Navy still on the commissioned roster currently being held captive.
