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September 14, 2015. Mr. Donald T. Shanower, "Doc, " 93, at Naperville, IL.

Jim was an engaging man as well as an outstanding and visionary Cryptologic Specialist.

Gen. John W. Vessey Jr., a soldier’s soldier who lied about his age to enlist in the service, won his commission on a battlefield in World War II and became a four-star general and then chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in the Reagan administration, died Thursday night at his home in North Oaks, Minn.

The Navy family is smaller this month. Joy Johnson left us unexpectedly.

"Ted" passed on Monday, 27 June, in Pennsylvania

Art was assigned as Chief of the Defense Counter-proliferation Office

Avery is one of those women who captivates you at first meeting, and stays with you in memory the rest of your life. I wish she had told me when we had lunch in Bethesda two years ago that it would be our last meeting.

A native of Jacksonville, Florida, Senior Chief Henderson was the fifth in his line to bear that name. He joined the Navy to see the World and during his active service had a proud record in three conflicts.

Born in February,1928, to Mr. and Mrs. Otis Wheeler of North Harmony Street in Medina, Jinny was proud of her heritage in the Buckeye State. Her ancestors included soldiers in the Revolutionary War, and later were some of the original pioneers of the Ohio Territory, the first arriving in 1816.

09 March, 2016. CAPT Donald C. East, USN-Ret, 77, at the UAB Medical Center in Birmingham, AL.

15 March 2016. CAPT William B. Bader, USNR-Ret, at Sykesville, MD. He had Alzheimer’s disease. He was born Sept. 8, 1931, in Atlantic City, where his grandfather had been mayor in the 1920s.

On 09 November, 2015, CDR William C. “Bill” Johnson, Jr., USNR-Ret., 85, of Daytona Beach passed peacefully at home surrounded by family. He had been a NIP member since 1994.