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.

Tuesday, January 26, 2021

The Passing of the Greatest Generation: Nolfo, Dryman and Geyer

**  JACOB NOLFO  (1927-2020)  Died December 28, 2020.  Served on USS Pennsylvania in WW II.

**  TALMAGE LAMAR DRYMAN, 94, Died Jan. 15, 2021.  He served as a gunnery officer on the USS Tennessee in the Pacific during the war.

**  CHARLES E. GEYER, 96, Died Jan. 5, 2021.  Had just completed junior year in high school when he was drafted into the Army.  Served in Europe 1944-1945.  

Interesting story about him, while at Patterson High School, he met a girl named June Rosalie  Hoskins, who was four years younger than him.  While he was overseas, she  was a part of  the school's letter-writing team and wrote to him regularly.  

When he returned after his 1946 discharge, he went back to that school, a romance ensued and they got married the following year.

Pen Pals.  --GreGen


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