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LT Thomas Donald Shriver

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LT Thomas Donald Shriver

Birth
Waynesboro, Franklin County, Pennsylvania, USA
Death
16 Oct 1942 (aged 30)
Solomon Islands
Burial
Waynesboro, Franklin County, Pennsylvania, USA Add to Map
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The husband of Julia Blanca Arjona, and he the son of Edward Augustus Shriver and Mary Margaret Ripple.

Child: Margaret Isabel Shriver, died as a child.

Lieutenant gunnery officer Thomas Donald Shriver, graduated from the United States Naval Academy with the Class of 1935. While stationed at Caracus, Venezuela, he met Julia Blanca, daughter of Dr. Julio Arjona, the governor of Panama, whom he later married. During the Second World War served as lieutenant gunnery officer aboard the U.S.S. Meredith and was killed in action during the battle of the Solomon Islands. He was buried at sea, but a cenotaph was erected to his memory on the Shriver-Ripple plot on Burns Hill.

Child: Margaret Isabel Shriver, died as a child.
The husband of Julia Blanca Arjona, and he the son of Edward Augustus Shriver and Mary Margaret Ripple.

Child: Margaret Isabel Shriver, died as a child.

Lieutenant gunnery officer Thomas Donald Shriver, graduated from the United States Naval Academy with the Class of 1935. While stationed at Caracus, Venezuela, he met Julia Blanca, daughter of Dr. Julio Arjona, the governor of Panama, whom he later married. During the Second World War served as lieutenant gunnery officer aboard the U.S.S. Meredith and was killed in action during the battle of the Solomon Islands. He was buried at sea, but a cenotaph was erected to his memory on the Shriver-Ripple plot on Burns Hill.

Child: Margaret Isabel Shriver, died as a child.


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