Soon after Amos Paul Pace was killed on the U.S.S. Arizona in the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, his widow, Connie E. Manning Pace, enlisted.
He was a boatswain's mate 1st class when he died on Dec. 7, 1941.
By February 1944 she was an aviation machinist's mate 2nd class and working in St. Louis. It isn't clear when her service ended.
They married Oct. 5, 1940, in Yuma, Arizona. She had been living in Los Angeles and he listed Long Beach as his permanent address. Yuma was a popular wedding spot for sailors whose ships had their home ports in California. Arizona had no waiting period between taking out a license and the marriage ceremony.
Mr. Pace was born Jan. 14, 1916, in Simsboro, Louisiana. His father, Amos G. Pace, was a farmer and his mother, Effie Pace, a homemaker. The son graduated from Ouachita Parish High School in Monroe, Louisiana, 1934. He also attended Southwest Junior College in Mississippi. He first enlisted in the Navy in 1935.
His widow was born Nov. 8, 1917 in Keenan, Oklahoma, and was a high school graduate. She died in 2003.
Sources: US Census, Arizona marriage license application, Monroe (Louisiana) Morning World, The Monroe News-Star; Defense Department; Veterans Administration. This profile was researched and written on behalf of the U.S.S. Arizona Mall Memorial at the University of Arizona.
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Entered the service from Louisiana.
He was a boatswain's mate 1st class when he died on Dec. 7, 1941.
By February 1944 she was an aviation machinist's mate 2nd class and working in St. Louis. It isn't clear when her service ended.
They married Oct. 5, 1940, in Yuma, Arizona. She had been living in Los Angeles and he listed Long Beach as his permanent address. Yuma was a popular wedding spot for sailors whose ships had their home ports in California. Arizona had no waiting period between taking out a license and the marriage ceremony.
Mr. Pace was born Jan. 14, 1916, in Simsboro, Louisiana. His father, Amos G. Pace, was a farmer and his mother, Effie Pace, a homemaker. The son graduated from Ouachita Parish High School in Monroe, Louisiana, 1934. He also attended Southwest Junior College in Mississippi. He first enlisted in the Navy in 1935.
His widow was born Nov. 8, 1917 in Keenan, Oklahoma, and was a high school graduate. She died in 2003.
Sources: US Census, Arizona marriage license application, Monroe (Louisiana) Morning World, The Monroe News-Star; Defense Department; Veterans Administration. This profile was researched and written on behalf of the U.S.S. Arizona Mall Memorial at the University of Arizona.
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Entered the service from Louisiana.
Soon after Amos Paul Pace was killed on the U.S.S. Arizona in the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, his widow, Connie E. Manning Pace, enlisted.
He was a boatswain's mate 1st class when he died on Dec. 7, 1941.
By February 1944 she was an aviation machinist's mate 2nd class and working in St. Louis. It isn't clear when her service ended.
They married Oct. 5, 1940, in Yuma, Arizona. She had been living in Los Angeles and he listed Long Beach as his permanent address. Yuma was a popular wedding spot for sailors whose ships had their home ports in California. Arizona had no waiting period between taking out a license and the marriage ceremony.
Mr. Pace was born Jan. 14, 1916, in Simsboro, Louisiana. His father, Amos G. Pace, was a farmer and his mother, Effie Pace, a homemaker. The son graduated from Ouachita Parish High School in Monroe, Louisiana, 1934. He also attended Southwest Junior College in Mississippi. He first enlisted in the Navy in 1935.
His widow was born Nov. 8, 1917 in Keenan, Oklahoma, and was a high school graduate. She died in 2003.
Sources: US Census, Arizona marriage license application, Monroe (Louisiana) Morning World, The Monroe News-Star; Defense Department; Veterans Administration. This profile was researched and written on behalf of the U.S.S. Arizona Mall Memorial at the University of Arizona.
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Entered the service from Louisiana.
He was a boatswain's mate 1st class when he died on Dec. 7, 1941.
By February 1944 she was an aviation machinist's mate 2nd class and working in St. Louis. It isn't clear when her service ended.
They married Oct. 5, 1940, in Yuma, Arizona. She had been living in Los Angeles and he listed Long Beach as his permanent address. Yuma was a popular wedding spot for sailors whose ships had their home ports in California. Arizona had no waiting period between taking out a license and the marriage ceremony.
Mr. Pace was born Jan. 14, 1916, in Simsboro, Louisiana. His father, Amos G. Pace, was a farmer and his mother, Effie Pace, a homemaker. The son graduated from Ouachita Parish High School in Monroe, Louisiana, 1934. He also attended Southwest Junior College in Mississippi. He first enlisted in the Navy in 1935.
His widow was born Nov. 8, 1917 in Keenan, Oklahoma, and was a high school graduate. She died in 2003.
Sources: US Census, Arizona marriage license application, Monroe (Louisiana) Morning World, The Monroe News-Star; Defense Department; Veterans Administration. This profile was researched and written on behalf of the U.S.S. Arizona Mall Memorial at the University of Arizona.
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Entered the service from Louisiana.
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