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Coyote

Posted 2024-09-29 3:47 PM (#105088)

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Subject: Sunday Obits

https://www.facebook.com/search/top?q=eternal%20patrol%20by%20ussvi

The above link goes to the USSVI (United States Submarine Veterans, Inc.) Facebook page where their members who have gone on “Eternal Patrol” are noted.

I’ll keep my work here going, trying to get others who were not USSVI members. You’re encouraged to look there as well as here! Obviously, there’ll be some I miss and some I duplicate.

Coyote

ABEL .. .. .. In Memory of Rudolph “Rudy” Abel, Jr. 1936-2024. Rudolph Abel, Jr., passed away peacefully on Saturday morning September 21, 2024 in Sarasota, Florida.
Rudy was born and attended public schools in Berlin, Connecticut. He graduated from Berlin High School in 1954 after being President of his class for five years and co-captain of the football team.
He received his B.A. (1958) from the University of Connecticut and his M.B.A. (1970) from the University of Pennsylvania, Wharton School of Finance.
Captain Abel served in both the active Navy and the Navy Reserve, retired as a Captain after twenty-six years of total service. While on active duty he served both on destroyers and submarines including the first class of U.S. strategic missile firing submarines.
As a civilian, he worked thirty-five years in the investment business in numerous positions. These positions include fifteen years at Manufacturers Hanover Trust of New York as Chief Investment Officer. Shawmut National Corporation of Boston, Massachusetts and Hartford, Connecticut as Chief Investment Officer for nine years.
Before retiring in 2005, he was a director and stockholder for a private investment firm, Jamison, Eaton & Wood, Inc. in Chatham, New Jersey for eleven years.
Rudy had been a resident of Siesta Key, Sarasota, Florida since 2005 where he met new friends, played a lot of golf, read hundreds of books and attended the theater. He is survived by his loving friends and family.
The family has requested that donations be made to the American Heart Association or Navy-Marine Corps Relief Society, 823 North Randolph Street, Suite 225, Arlington, VA 22203-1977 or Tampa General Hospital Heart Transplant Center.

KEATING .. .. .. Larry Keating, 79, ended his three-year negotiation with cancer at Hospice & Community Care on Friday, September 20, 2024, a day when he noted 147,117 other people died worldwide; his passing would barely register.
Larry lived his early life in New Cumberland, PA. At 17, he joined the U.S. Navy for a six-year enlistment needed to train as an electronic technician and a nuclear propulsion plant operator. He spent much of this time in Charleston, SC, and aboard the submarine the USS Von Steuben, SSBN 632 (Blue), from which he was honorably discharged in 1968 as an ET1 (SS).
He then set off to Penn State, where he served as the Resident Assistant in the Navy ROTC dorm and graduated Phi Beta Kappa in 1971. Then to the University of Virginia School of Law, where he met his wife-to-be, Jan Masland. Upon his graduation in 1974, they set off for two years in San Francisco.

They returned to PA, settling in the neutral territory of Lancaster (Jan was from Carlisle). Larry spent most of his legal career at Armstrong World Industries, Inc., and at the instance of Jan, graduated from an early class of Leadership Lancaster, which set the stage for a parallel career in volunteerism.
Larry became involved with numerous community organizations, including SCORE Lancaster Lebanon, Lancaster YWCA, The Common Wheel, Leadership Lancaster, and The Janus School. Blessings all.
His passion for the outdoors was greatly aided by good friends on bicycles & skis, and at Tumbling Run Game Preserve, an idyllic inholding in Micheaux State Forest, and at RoundTop Mountain Resort, where he volunteered on Mountain Safety for more than a decade.
Looking back on his life, if asked, he would tell you that, left to his own devices, he would have made a grand mess of things. But he was rescued time & again by what he came to call his friends in high places. He took no credit for the path his life followed-how he got into submarines, college, & law school, & how he ended up in Lancaster and its wonderful community with the only woman in the world for him and his extraordinary children.
He wished everyone knew that they have their own friends in high places, the kind who don't need prayer, who are on the job every day right beside you to get you through, and don't know shame, fear, or guilt. Imagine the burden that would lift from all of us suffering souls.
Larry is survived by his wife, Jan Masland and his children, Benjamin (Colorado), Elizabeth (Philadelphia), and Bridget (Lancaster). He loved them all beyond description. He was predeceased by two brothers & two sisters and is survived by sisters, Mary (Virginia) and Lucy (California) and by nieces & nephews whom he dearly loved.
He knew that nothing was perfect, but he had great family, friends, paper route customers, fellow volunteers, dogs, bikes, & skis. What a life. He thanks you all.
Authored by Larry himself as those who knew him have probably guessed.
Relatives and friends are invited to attend Larry's Memorial Service at First Presbyterian Church, 140 E. Orange Street, Lancaster, PA on Friday, October 4, 2024, at 11:00 a.m. with The Rev. Dan Snyder officiating. The family will receive friends at The Groffs Family Funeral Home, 528 W. Orange Street, Lancaster, PA on Thursday evening, October 3, 2024 from 5:00 p.m. to 6:55 p.m. and again at the church from 10:00 a.m. until the time service. Private interment.
In lieu of flowers, memorials may be sent in Larry's name to Hospice & Community Care, 685 Good Drive, P. O. Box 4125, Lancaster, PA 17608-4125, The Janus School, 205 Lefever Road, Mount Joy, PA, 17552 or SCORE Lancaster-Lebanon, 115 East King Street, Lancaster, PA 17602.

STROUT .. .. .. Richard Edward Strout was rewarded his victory over death as he left this earthly life to be eternally with our Savior. Richard passed peacefully in his home in Bowling Green, Kentucky on September 25, 2024, from cancer after a year of treatment and small daily miracles for which he remained thankful.
Richard was born on January 30, 1948, in Bangor, Maine as the oldest of four sons to Beverly Elaine Farrington Strout and Frank Everett Strout. He grew up in Bucksport, Maine; Fernandina Beach, Florida; Wausau, Wisconsin; and Cincinnati, Ohio. After graduating from Green Hills High School, he attended Morehead College before enlisting in the Unted States Navy. Richard proudly served his country in the Atlantic Fleet of the U.S. Submarine Service as a Fire Control Tech on three different WWII era diesel boats - the USS Odax, the USS Grouper and the USS Cubera. He served in New London, Connecticut; Norfolk, Virginia; Charleston, South Carolina; Key West, Florida; Guantanamo Bay, Cuba; and numerous tours throughout the Mediterranean, the Caribbean and the North Atlantic.
Upon discharge from the Navy, Richard relocated to Chattanooga, Tennessee, where he was employed by Ace Hardware, Combustion Engineering and McKee Foods. He attended Chattanooga State Technical Community College and Covenant College obtaining both Mechanical Engineering and Business degrees while working full time. Richard was also a volunteer firefighter and EMT for Tri-Community Volunteer Fire Department for many years and was an active member of Apison United Methodist Church.
Richard was a master electrician and owned Strout Electric for a time. He served as Electrical Construction Superintendent at "Little Debbie" for 29 years. He retired in 2013 as an electrical designer from Lectrus in Chattanooga, Tennessee and moved to Bowling Green, Kentucky in 2015.
Richard had many interests and hobbies over the years, including scuba diving, long distance cycling, camping, motorcycling, fishing, kayaking, model ship building, woodworking, raising bonsai trees, constructing saltwater aquariums and rebuilding antique Volkswagens. A long time, short wave "HAM" radio operator, he was active in Kentucky Colonels, DX Club and the local K-M Ham Radio Club. He was an active member of Christ Global Methodist Church in Bowling Green and was a much-loved part of the Dorsey Class there.
Richard loved telling stories about his time in the Navy and could talk "a blue streak" about those years. His other favorites were tales of logging every summer in the Maine woods with his grandfather, the logging camp, the mules, his coworkers and the strong coffee!
Richard was preceded in death by his parents, by his grandparents, Olive Marks Farrington and Perl Vernon Farrington of Bucksport, Maine and Zephyrhills, Florida. He is survived by his beloved wife of 22 years, Gloria Jeanne Swope Strout, daughters Bonnie (Bob) Bezkor of Bowling Green, Kentucky and Dr. Beth Morris (Andrew Monteith) of Buchanan, Virginia and five precious grandsons, Barrett and Benjamin Bezkor and Drew, Luke and Sam Monteith.
He will be missed by siblings, Greg (Suzanne) Strout of Simpsonville, South Carolina; Steve Strout (Margery Grennon) of Roswell, Georgia; Jeff (Doris) Strout of Zephyrhills, Florida; Patricia (David) Baker and Terry (Betsy) Swope of Soddy Daisy, Tennessee. He treasured many, many very special nieces, nephews, cousins and friends in Florida, Georgia, California, North and South Carolina, Minnesota, Tennessee and Kentucky, as well his sweet dog Daisy.
Much gratitude to Dr. Pamela Smith, her entire staff, especially the infusion team, Dr. Richard McGahan and his caring and compassionate team, and finally to Dr. Michael Byrne and Hospice of Southern Kentucky for their love, care and prayers.

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