ForeverMissed
Large image
His Life

LT. Walter (Steve) Howdyshell (Pilot)

May 31, 2018

When Walter Steven Howdyshell was born on December 7, 1947, in Gallipolis, Ohio, his father, Walter, was 21 and his mother, Dorothy, was 19. He married Tamy L Danison on December 14, 1968, in New Lexington, Ohio. They had three children during their marriage. He died as a young father on June 24, 1977, at the age of 29, and was buried in New Lexington Cemetery, in New Lexington, Ohio.

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/60915078/walter-steven-howdyshell

SH-2F Accident Report

August 10, 2018

I have obtained the Official Accident Report from the Dept. of the Navy Naval Safety Center in Norfolk, VA. If you`re interested in finding more about this tragic day, please feel free to contact me. A donation is required to help pay for a Memoral Monument planned to be set up in there in there honor at the NAS Patuxent River Muesum.  https://www.gofundme.com/in-memory-of-vx1-shipmate

LT. Rick A. Creighton (Copilot)

May 25, 2018

Lt. Rick A. Creighton following graduation went to Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, in the Master’s program in electrical engineering. In February 1971, Rick and Carol Addriene were married and moved to Pacific Grove. In the summer of 1971, Rick began flight school, receiving his wings in 1972. His first assignment was to HSL-33, Naval Air Station Imperial Beach, California. In 1975 Rick went to Patuxent River NAS to VX-1. In April 1977 Rick and Carol joyfully welcomed a son, Benjamin Vance Creighton, into the world and in June they lost Rick in a helicopter accident. Benjamin, Rick son was only two months old when his dad perished. Rick was laid to rest at Fort Rosecrans Military National Cemetery in San Diego, CA in Section H  Site 

 https://usnamemorialhall.org/index.php/RICHARD_A.

AW-2 Robert M.Emery Jr. (Air Crewman)

May 26, 2018

The picture is of Bob Emery and his wife Christine Bengston Emery. They were married in March 1976, about 15 months before Bob died tragically. Christine was also in the Navy with them both stationed at NAS Patuxent River, MD. Bob was laid to rest in his hometown at the Hillcrest Memoral Park Cemetery of Grant Pass, Oregon.

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/154368918/robert-melvin-emery