From the December 2, 2015, Raleigh (NC) News & Observer.
Ann Gillmore Tamny died Nov. 28, 2015, in Harrisonburg, Virginia.
She was born in 1921 in New York and moved at an early age to California. She attended the University of California at Berkeley at age 16, but left after just one year after meeting the love of her life, Ensign Lewis David Tamny. They were wed in 1939.
An early duty station for him was Pearl Harbor where he was assigned to duty on the USS West Virginia and he was aboard it when Japan attacked. He survived the attack but earned a Purple Heart
Ann had awakened early to pack a picnic lunch for their young son and heard the Japanese planes flying in for the attack. It took her two days to find out if her Lewis was alive.
She will be buried at Arlington National Cemetery next to her husband of 42 years.
I usually write about the deaths of the men, but their wives stories are just as poignant.
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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