 Henry Alton Strum U.S.S. Salt Lake City CA25 1942- |
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U.S.S. SLC...USN...Henry Alton Strum, MM2c, USN
Henry A. Strum passed away on Sept. 20, 2003
June 24th, 2019 My name is Christopher “Talyn” Strum and my grandfather was Henry Alton Strum MMR2c “A” Division. I found your page while searching for more information regarding my grandfather’s naval service in WWII. Firstly, I want to thank you for this page. My grandfather never really talked about his time in the Navy much, and to me only to mostly say that he saw a lot of fighting and to tell me a little about the passing of an officer. (Lt. Comdr Winsor Gale) I have found photos of him on your page that our family did not have before, for that I am grateful. I also found him in a photo that he’s not identified in. Group ID #115, Person #24, Henry A. Strum MMR2c. My grandfather, after leaving the Navy in ’45 (I believe), went back home to Castalia, NC and eventually ended up marrying Nancy Godwin, the daughter of a friend of the family and fellow sharecropper, in 1948. His first child (my father) was born in 1949 on their first wedding anniversary. Not long after he found a career with the Veteran’s Administration Hospital in Hampton, VA., doing much the same work he did aboard CA-25; refrigeration. Where from he retired in 1983. His second child (my aunt) was born in 1951. He served for almost 40 years as the steward of James River Rod and Gun Club, a hunting lodge in Charles City, VA. And he was a life long hunter and fisherman. A dedicated, yet silent, Mason. A consummate tinkerer and craftsman who taught me so much over the years, in his “second house”; the workshop that was in the backyard of the plot butting against the Hampton National Veteran’s Cemetery that he bought in the Phoebus section of Hampton, VA. in 1951. Where he resided for the rest of his days in the house he built on that plot, until his passing in 2003. He was a kind of silent and somewhat stoic man who could surprise you with a razor wit and sense of humor when you least expected it. Below you will find his Obituary: Henry 'Frosty' Alton Strum, 82, passed away Saturday, Sept. 20, 2003, at Sentara Careplex Hospital. A native of Nash County, N.C., he had been a Peninsula resident since 1951. Henry was a Navy veteran of WWII and retired from the VA Center Hospital as a refrigeration mechanic in 1983 with many years of service. He was a member of the Monitor Lodge #197, Phoebus. Preceded in death by his wife, Nancy May Godwin Strum, Henry is survived by one son, Alton Strum of Gloucester Point, Va.; his daughter, Patricia Ann Doughty of Galveston, Texas; four grandchildren, Christopher R. Strum, Ashley Strum Smith, Sean Doughty and Hope Doughty; two sisters, Shirley Burton of Hampton and Gretchen Edwards of Mississippi; two brothers, Neil Strum of Hampton and Herman Strum of North Carolina. Attached are a photo of him at work at the V.A. Center Hospital and one of him a few years before his passing. In gratitude, “Talyn” Christopher Strum #4 in picture with Shipmates #14 in "A" Division, 1944 #5 in Ice Machine Station, 1942-44 SLC Deck Log Nov. 1942 |
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