Here is additional information relating to Ensign Raymond W. Kimm:
An excerpt from a letter sent by a relative to Ensign Kimm "I am sending you some pictures of him, [Ens. Kimm] and a copy of a newspaper story that was printed shortly thereafter. My mother is Ray's older sister, a woman who is now 95 years old. She believes that this news story was printed in the Bulletin Journal, the small town newspaper of Independence, Iowa. As you can see the the story is based on a letter Ray wrote to another sister, my aunt Kathryn. [One paragraph omitted]
Uncle Ray was born March 5, 1915 and died young at the young age of 48, years, December 16, 1964 of a heart attack. He is buried at Oakhill Cemetery in Parkersburg, Iowa, the hometown of his wife, Virginia Wilson Kimm who also was a Navy Officer. Ray and Virgie had one child, a son, Brice. Sad to say, the entire family is deceased. Ray was a 21 year veteran of the Navy Reserve and according to my mother, saw 7 1/2 years of active duty during World War II and the Korean War. He went in as an Ensign and worked to to being a Commander."
Signed Sharon Wayson Herman
