Military funeral services were held today at Pensacola, Fla., for V. Adm. Ralph E. Davison (Ret.), a former St. Louisan. Burial was in the National Cemetery at the Pensacola Naval Air Base.
Adm. Davison, 78 years old, died Tuesday of a heart attack. He was born in St. Louis and attended old Yeatman High School before his appointment to the Naval Academy. He was the son of the late Mr. and Mrs. G.W. Davison.
Adm. Davison, a 1916 graduate of Annapolis, had served on the battleship Oklahoma and as commander of a sub-chaser in Atlantic in War I. He later became a naval aviator, rising to assistant chief of the Bureau of Aeronautics.
Surviving are a son, Flight Comdr. David Davison, Norfolk, Va., and a daughter, Mrs. Eric Morrison, Lisbon, Portugal. Adm. Davison's wife, Elizabeth, was fatally burned November 25 in a fire that destroyed their home in Pensacola.
St. Louis Post0Dispatch, page 13A, Friday, February 19, 1972
Contributor: Deborah VanDeveer (48409315)
Adm. Davison, 78 years old, died Tuesday of a heart attack. He was born in St. Louis and attended old Yeatman High School before his appointment to the Naval Academy. He was the son of the late Mr. and Mrs. G.W. Davison.
Adm. Davison, a 1916 graduate of Annapolis, had served on the battleship Oklahoma and as commander of a sub-chaser in Atlantic in War I. He later became a naval aviator, rising to assistant chief of the Bureau of Aeronautics.
Surviving are a son, Flight Comdr. David Davison, Norfolk, Va., and a daughter, Mrs. Eric Morrison, Lisbon, Portugal. Adm. Davison's wife, Elizabeth, was fatally burned November 25 in a fire that destroyed their home in Pensacola.
St. Louis Post0Dispatch, page 13A, Friday, February 19, 1972
Contributor: Deborah VanDeveer (48409315)
Military funeral services were held today at Pensacola, Fla., for V. Adm. Ralph E. Davison (Ret.), a former St. Louisan. Burial was in the National Cemetery at the Pensacola Naval Air Base.
Adm. Davison, 78 years old, died Tuesday of a heart attack. He was born in St. Louis and attended old Yeatman High School before his appointment to the Naval Academy. He was the son of the late Mr. and Mrs. G.W. Davison.
Adm. Davison, a 1916 graduate of Annapolis, had served on the battleship Oklahoma and as commander of a sub-chaser in Atlantic in War I. He later became a naval aviator, rising to assistant chief of the Bureau of Aeronautics.
Surviving are a son, Flight Comdr. David Davison, Norfolk, Va., and a daughter, Mrs. Eric Morrison, Lisbon, Portugal. Adm. Davison's wife, Elizabeth, was fatally burned November 25 in a fire that destroyed their home in Pensacola.
St. Louis Post0Dispatch, page 13A, Friday, February 19, 1972
Contributor: Deborah VanDeveer (48409315)
Adm. Davison, 78 years old, died Tuesday of a heart attack. He was born in St. Louis and attended old Yeatman High School before his appointment to the Naval Academy. He was the son of the late Mr. and Mrs. G.W. Davison.
Adm. Davison, a 1916 graduate of Annapolis, had served on the battleship Oklahoma and as commander of a sub-chaser in Atlantic in War I. He later became a naval aviator, rising to assistant chief of the Bureau of Aeronautics.
Surviving are a son, Flight Comdr. David Davison, Norfolk, Va., and a daughter, Mrs. Eric Morrison, Lisbon, Portugal. Adm. Davison's wife, Elizabeth, was fatally burned November 25 in a fire that destroyed their home in Pensacola.
St. Louis Post0Dispatch, page 13A, Friday, February 19, 1972
Contributor: Deborah VanDeveer (48409315)
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