Richard Higgins died March 21, 2024.
He was born on a farm near Magnum, Oklahoma, on July 24, 1921 and joined the Navy in 1939, retiring 20 years later. He then became an aeronautics engineer for Northrup Grumman, and other defense contractors.
He worked on the B-2 Stealth Bomber.
His wife, Winnie Ruth, died in 2004 after 60 years of marriage. Shortly after checking into hospice care Thursday, he told his granddaughter, "I'm ready to go see Winnie Ruth."
There are now just 22 survivors of the Pearl Harbor attack according to Kathleen Farley, the California state chair of the Sons and Daughters of Pearl Harbor Survivors. She said that other survivors may still be alive because not all joined the Pearl Harbor Survivors Association (PHSA) when it was formed in 1958.
About 87,000 military personnel were on Oahu on December 7.
--GreGen
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