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Dedication Ceremonies to Honor Those Who Have Served Our Country Sunday, November 11, 2018 Veterans Day Dedication Ceremony 1:00Pm ALLISON & HOWARD LUTNICK THEATER 1 Dedication Ceremonies To Honor Those Who Have Served Our Country Sunday, November 11, 2018 Veterans Day Dedication Ceremony 1:00pm ALLISON & HOWARD LUTNICK THEATER Opening Remarks Susan Marenoff–Zausner PRESIDENT Introduction Alice Stryker DIRECTOR OF INDIVIDUAL GIVING Induction of Honorees EM2 Horace Richard Benedict, USN 1942–1946 MM1 Gilbert L. Brown, USN 1964–1967 Specialist Shore Patrol 2nd Class John A. Colasanti, USNR 1943–1946 Captain Jon Roger Geer, USN 1945–1969 MM3 Francis A. Nugent, USN 1942–1945 PhM2/c Richard J. O’Brien, Sr., USN 1943–1944 Major Ralph J. Odya, US Army (Ret.) 1970–2004 Sergeant Jim Power, US Army 1969–1972 Lt. Col. Edward Carroll Smith, US Air Force 1941–1945 4 EM2 Horace Richard Benedict, USN 1942–1946 MM1 Gilbert L. Brown, USN 1964–1967 His smiling spirit was always an inspiration. In loving tribute, our family and friends honor your devotion to He loved his family, his country, ship and railroad. our country, family and God. Served aboard USS Intrepid 1943–1945. Gilbert Lee Brown was born October 25, 1942 in Louisville, Kentucky. Horace Richard Benedict, one of nine children, was born on March 23, He was the son of Gilbert and Martha Brown. When Gil graduated high 1919. He grew up in the small railroad town of Crewe, Virginia. Benedict school he attended college at Western Kentucky University in Bowling attended Crewe High School where he was a star member of the football Green, Kentucky. Lack of funding delayed his dream of earning a degree. team. After his high school graduation in 1938, he began his railroad He returned to Louisville and enlisted in the U.S. Navy in January 1964. career with the Norfolk & Western Railway. In the next 4 years he did three tours of duty to Vietnam aboard the Horace put his railroad career on hold to enlist in the United States Navy USS Intrepid. Gil was assigned to the engine room as a machinist’s mate. on July 16, 1942. After completing Naval Training School at Purdue While aboard Intrepid, they retrieved the Molly Brown space capsule University, he was assigned to the USS Intrepid. He served in the Pacific with Grissom and Young on March 23, 1965. This event was one of his Theater from 1943–1945. He loved his ship and made many friends proudest moments while serving the country. while on board. Even during the darkest days on Intrepid, with the ship under attack, he never lost faith in his ship and the ability of On one trip to Virginia, Gil met his wife. They married 3 months later. his fellow crew members to achieve victory. In 1946, he received an Gil began his career at Sears as a lawn mower mechanic. He worked Honorable Discharge. his way up from that position and ended as a Sears store operator after 35 years. With World War II over, Horace resumed his career with the Norfolk & Western Railway and was headquartered in Roanoke, Virginia. In 1950, Over the next 18 years, Gil remained in the Naval Reserve. Gil and he married Elsie Dillion and had one daughter. During his N&W career his wife Ellen moved to Louisville in June 1973. While in the Reserves, he became one of the most respected locomotive engineers on the he attended the commissioning of the USS Louisville. Gil retired with railroad. With his hand gripping the throttle of steam and later diesel 22+ years of service. In 2015, Gil was proudly commissioned to be locomotives, Horace delivered passengers and freight safely and a Kentucky Colonel honoring his years of service to our country. efficiently to their destinations until his death in 1980. Gil passed unexpectedly a year ago the day after his and Ellen’s 49th wedding anniversary. 5 Specialist Shore Patrol 2nd Class John A. Colasanti, Captain Jon Roger Geer, USN 1945–1969 Aviator, gentleman, dedicated grandfather. USNR 1943–1946 For your guidance, love and devotion to family and country. A true patriot: loyal, ethical and fair. Truly one of the Greatest Generation. Your devoted family honors you. Capt. Jon Roger Geer, a native of Rule, Texas, retired from the Navy John Anthony Colasanti was one of ten children born to immigrant parents. after 27 years of service. A Naval aviator, he served in various Throughout his 84 years, he was a loving brother to eight sisters and one operational, staff and command assignments during World War II, brother. Today John would be known as the “go-to person” for his relatives the Korean War and the Vietnam War. Jon flew off of Intrepid as part and friends. He always found time to be there for anyone in need of his of fighter squadron VF-81, probably 1957 to 1958. He entered the help and guidance. He was one of the Greatest Generation. US Navy in 1945 as an ensign. As a fighter pilot, he served in a number of aircraft carriers in both the Pacific and Atlantic fleets In 1943, at the age of 31, John worked for a defense-oriented industry, and commanded Fleet Composite Squadron Eight at Roosevelt had an infant son and was exempt from the draft. Despite being exempt, Roads Naval Station in Puerto Rico. Jon attended the Navy General he and his wife Millie agreed that it was important he serve as a member of our military. Having no knowledge of what it meant to be a seaman, he Line School in Newport, RI, and the United Kingdom Joint Services volunteered to join the US Navy. At the time he joined, during his service Staff College in Latimer, England. He held a master’s degree in and throughout the rest of his life, he could not swim a stroke. aeronautical engineering from the University of Minnesota. After serving three years as a Shore patrolman, John returned home, After retiring from the Navy in 1969, Jon was employed by Harris joined the ranks of the employed and supported his family by working Corporation, until his retirement in 1989 as director, Eastern multiple jobs. While he was unable to pursue education beyond grammar Region, Norfolk. He was past president of the Hampton Roads school, he recognized the importance of a formal education and he and Squadron of the Association of Naval Aviation and a member of the Millie sacrificed to ensure that their children went to college. Their two Tailhook Association. Jon was also a senior member of the American sons graduated law school and their daughter received a teaching degree Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. He was a widower and at and taught at an inner-city school. the age of 61 married Patsy Jane Thompson. He instantly became Upon retirement, John and Millie were finally able to travel, their favorite a stepfather to two married children. Jon was a wonderful, involved trips being cruises to Caribbean islands. But their greatest enjoyment father, grandfather and great-grandfather. was visits with their family. John’s deteriorating health did not dim the sparkle from his pale green eyes nor his full-face smile when watching his children and grandchildren enjoying Sunday Italian dinners prepared by Millie, his lifelong partner and greatest admirer. 6 MM3 Francis A. Nugent, USN 1942–1945 PhM2/c Richard J. O’Brien, Sr., USN 1943–1944 In loving tribute to your service aboard the “Mighty I”. Honored and Brother, QM1 John P. “Jack” O’Brien. U.S.S. Terry KIA 3-1-1945. proud to be part of this legacy. You remain forever in our hearts. Richard J. “Dick” O’Brien, Sr. was born in 1923 and raised in Ardmore, Francis A. Nugent was born in New York City in 1925. He was 12 years Pennsylvania. He graduated from Waldron Academy in 1936 and old when he lost his dad and his mom was left a widow with 4 children from Philadelphia’s West Catholic High School four years later. Prior to during the Depression. Frank’s older brother Bob and his uncles enlisted enlisting in the Navy in November 1942, Dick attended Pierce Business to serve their country during WWII. Frank was only 17 and needed School, was a member of the Ocean City Beach Patrol and worked as his mother to sign him up. He persisted and eventually she gave in. a title clerk for Commonwealth Land Title Company. Frank was initially assigned to the USS Ranger. One day, his mom Aboard Intrepid, Dick was one of the ship’s photographers. arrived at work and noticed everyone acting strange around her. On October 29, 1944, a kamikaze struck a gun tub on Intrepid’s port The newspaper headlines had reported that the USS Ranger had side. Film of the attack, revealed that impact was not captured. been sunk, which thankfully turned out to be German propaganda. On November 25, 1944, the Fighting I’s darkest day, Dick filmed impact of one of the two kamikaze to strike the flight deck that day. Suffering Frank was reassigned to the USS Intrepid in 1943 when the ship was from third-degree burns and severe shrapnel wounds, he was triaged. commissioned. While on Intrepid, he served as a machinist’s mate. The following day, he was taken to sick bay when the ship’s chaplain He worked hard and was in the engine room when the ship was found him still alive. Dick was awarded the Bronze Star and torpedoed and hit by a kamikaze, was there when it ran aground Purple Heart medals. on the Panama Canal and when it fought in the Battle of Leyte Gulf. After his release from the Philadelphia Naval Hospital, Dick earned Frank always made the war sound like a big adventure – and talked a Pennsylvania realtor’s license and joined his father, William, in about the fun he had on liberty and his time in the South Pacific.
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