Fr5om the April 14, 2015, Salt lake City Tribune "Marion Kesler, Utahn who survived Pearl Harbor, dies at 93" by Nate Carlisle.
He was a cook's helped on the USS Hulbert who warned his shipmates and then helped load cartridges into machine guns, died Friday at home in Taylorsville. His wife, Viola, had died on February 17th.
Mr. Kesler was one of seven Utahn Pearl Harbor survivors honored at the state Capitol on the 70th anniversary of the attack in 2011. At least three of them still remain alive.
He was 22 and on the destroyer built at the end of World War I and converted to maintain Catalina amphibian patrol bombers. His main duty was to take food from the galley to 125 men at mess below.
--GreGen
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.
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