Born: February 20, 1923 Ensign, United States Naval Reserve Service# 383583
USS MORRIS (DD-417)
Sims-class destroyer, commissioned March 5, 1940
Date of Enlistment: June 1943 Home or Place of Enlistment: Boise, Idaho Date of Loss: April 11, 1945
Died of Wounds received when the MORRIS was struck by an enemy kamikaze aircraft on April 6 while conducting combat operations against Imperial Japanese Forces in the Ryukyu Islands during the Okinawa campaign of World War II.