August 7, 1902 - February 20, 2005
Edna is buried beside her first husband Jacob Hayward Long (September 6, 1896 – March 1, 1962) at Cedarvale Cemetery. Their son Gunners Mate Third Class William Frank "Billy" Long (July 8, 1925 – February 11, 1944) United States Navy was stationed aboard the USS Pennsylvania (BB-38) and was in the Marshall Islands at the time of his death. He died when a powder tank exploded while being loaded into Turret #1 on the ship during battle. He was first buried on the Island of Bikini. In 1945, in preparation to secretly test the atomic bomb on the islands of Bikini and Enewetak, he was moved to Mausoleum #1, Scofield Barracks, Hawaii. He was reinterred at Cedarvale Cemetery in Section 6, Row 19 on November 6, 1947 near his maternal grandfather William Henry Mangum who died in 1944. At the time of Billy's death his family was living in Dickinson, Texas.
August 7, 1902 - February 20, 2005
Edna is buried beside her first husband Jacob Hayward Long (September 6, 1896 – March 1, 1962) at Cedarvale Cemetery. Their son Gunners Mate Third Class William Frank "Billy" Long (July 8, 1925 – February 11, 1944) United States Navy was stationed aboard the USS Pennsylvania (BB-38) and was in the Marshall Islands at the time of his death. He died when a powder tank exploded while being loaded into Turret #1 on the ship during battle. He was first buried on the Island of Bikini. In 1945, in preparation to secretly test the atomic bomb on the islands of Bikini and Enewetak, he was moved to Mausoleum #1, Scofield Barracks, Hawaii. He was reinterred at Cedarvale Cemetery in Section 6, Row 19 on November 6, 1947 near his maternal grandfather William Henry Mangum who died in 1944. At the time of Billy's death his family was living in Dickinson, Texas.
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