WORLD
WAR II
Frederick Halden Owen
S 2nd Cl -KIA-Pearl Harbor - 7 Dec 1941
USS ARIZONA (BB-29)
This ship became
the symbol of the Pearl
Harbor attack.
1,177 killed. For this reason, they
left the ship where it sank in the
shallow harbor.
They salvaged the top part that was
out of the water and built the Arizona
Memorial over it.
The Destroyed Arizona
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The Arizona Memorial  |
His
father died in 1969.
His mother died in 1973 and is buried
in Collinsville.
Her survivors were sons:Robert Owen,
Kenneth Owen.
Daughters; Mrs Nora Jarnagin, Mrs Pat
Ginnings, Mrs Robert Minnis
All of her Children lived in Denton.
His name is in the Book of Combat
Naval Casualties, with Lonnie L Owen
his father
His family is buried in the Collinsville
Cemetery
I have not found any articles about
him in newspapers,
except where they publish a list of
those who died on the Arizona, later
when the USS Arizona Memorial was
founded.
I found this
page about those who died on the
Arizona.
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Survivors
description of what happened on
board the Arizona
that Infamous day.
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His
body was not found,he is memorialized in the
Courts
of the Missing, National Memorial,
Cemetery of the Pacific
Honolulu,
Hawaii.
and in the USS ARIZONA Memorial
and a memorial in the Collinsville
Cemetery
Grayson
County Military Page
Susan
Hawkins
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