The USS North Carolina (BB-55) My all-time favorite warship. As an elementary school student in North Carolina, I donated nickels and dimes to save this ship back in the early sixties.

Monday, March 30, 2015

Pearl Harbor Survivor and Wife Buried on the Same Day

From the Feb. 27, 2013, CBS 47 TV by Kathryn Herr.

From Sanger, California.

Roy and Juanita Molder had quite a love story, beginning shortly after Pearl Harbor, where Roy was stationed on the USS Rigel the day of the attack.

he was active in the PHSA and often talked to area school children about it.

They would have celebrated their 70th wedding anniversary this August.  They spent their who;e lives together and died just hours apart.  Roy died Feb. 23 at age 89.  Juanita, 88, died the next day.

He always called her "Bright Eyes," the name he called her on the day they met.

The burial was with full military honors.

Quite a Story.  --GreGen

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