"A Tribute To The Crew And Their Ship" by Ed Fournier given at the 2003 reunion 

Name	Highest Rank/Rate while serving on Surfbird	Years Served	Date of Death/            Email contact
Milfred "Bud" Hinek	MOMM3C	1944-45  PLANK OWNER	Deceased 5-26-1966   (Email link is to son)
Harold L. Dippre	S1C	1944-46 PLANK OWNER	Deceased 1-17-2003 (Email link is to daughter)
Tom Kirshner	S 1/C	1944-46   PLANK OWNER	Deceased 3-8-2001
Andrew (Andy) Kelly	EM2c	1944-46  PLANK OWNER	Deceased 9-14-1998   (Email link is to son)
Bill Bundy	MOMM2C	1944-46  PLANK OWNER	Deceased 4-7-2004   (Email link is to wife)
Virgil Dunkin	S 1/C	1944-46 PLANK OWNER	Deceased 12-26-2005 (Email link is to daughter)
Wilfred Emery	EMC	1944-45 PLANK OWNER	Deceased 9-16-2006   (Email link is to nephew)
Gustav (Gus) Busch	EM2	1944-46 PLANK OWNER	Deceased 4-5-2007   (Email link is to son-in-law)
Guy Albanese (Alby)	BM1/c	1944-46 PLANK OWNER	Deceased 1 -3-2010
Grover "Doby" Goins	F2C	1945-46	Deceased 10-26-1998   (Email link is to daughter)
Earl F. Jack	BM1	1951-56	Deceased 05-12-1987 (Email link is to son)
George W. Mitchell	LCDR(CO)	1955-56	Deceased 3-14-2004   (Email link is to daughter)
Albert M. Huntley	CS1	1956-58	Deceased 5-1-2009
Wes Chapman	BM2 (DV2)	1956-57	Deceased 1-6-2006
Louis Hambley	CDR	1958-60	Deceased 1-16-2005   (Email link is to daughter)
Edward Van Gallera	HMC	1958-61	Deceased 10-4-1997   (Email link is to son)
Lynn Mathews	RM2	1960-63	Deceased 4-16-2002
Jerry Humphries	EM2	1961-63	Deceased 1-1-1996
Ron Kuenle	SN	1961-63	Deceased 8-16-2007
Arthur Rush	EN3	1961-63	Deceased 3-26-2010
Dennis J. Kottke	EM1	1961-64	Deceased 11-20-1982
Clifford Dowling	EN3	1962-64	Deceased 7-27-1971       in Vietnam Virtual Wall Link
Stan Sowinski	CDR	1962-64	Deceased 1-8-2010   (Email link is to son-in-law)
Gilbert C. Markle	LTJG	1964-65	Deceased 11-23-1999   (Email link is to daughter)
Bob Vanover	EMFN	1965-67	Deceased 1-11-2010
Elmer H. Witherow	CWO4	1966-68	Deceased 9-13-1991 (Email link is to son)
Joseph (Jay) Kurator	HMC	1966-69	Deceased 11 -8-2009 (Email link is to daughter)
John W. Vaccaro	CWO	1968-70	Deceased Date unknown)
Neal O. Mills	LCDR	1969-70	Deceased (Date unknown)

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