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Contact Info
Home Town Beverly, MA
Last Address Santa Fe, NM
Date of Passing Dec 03, 2005
Location of Interment Santa Fe National Cemetery (VA) - Santa Fe, New Mexico
Vice Adm (Ret) Frederick Lincoln Ashworth, born January 24, 1912Beverly, MA. Graduate OF U.S. Naval Academy 1933 and career Navy Officer. During WWII was Deputy Commander & Operations Officer of Manhattan Project. Was Weaponeer on Nagasaki Attack, August 9, 1945. Other Commands included: Executive Officer-USS MIDWAY, Commands USS CORSON and USS FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, Admiral of U.S. NAVAL 6TH Fleet as well as Commandant of Midshipmen, U.S. NAVAL ACADEMY. Retired 1968 to Santa Fe where he helped found Hondo Hills Fire Station, later moving to Lincoln, NM briefly before returning to Santa Fe in the early 1990s. He is survived by widow, Ercie Bell Ashworth; three sons, Frederick L. Ashworth, Jr. and wife, Dawn, Jr. David B. Ashworth, Stephen W. Ashworth and wife, Wendy; and three grandchildren; and one great-grandchild.