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- From the obituary: "During WW II, he served in the Navy aboard the light cruiser Savannah, and in England as a member of Fleet Air Wing 7, which was a B-24 squadron. He was employed locally as a lace weaver for 12 years before joining Electric Boat in Groton, CT, retiring in 1985 as Chief of Installation Planning for Outside Machinists. He spent years researching genealogy and was in the process of writing a Whitford Family History. He was a member of the Connecticut Society of Genealogists, the Rhode Island Genealogical Society, and was a former member of the Cornwall Family History Society and the Devon Family History Society, both of England, the Clwyd Family History Society of Wales, and the Tay Valley Family History Society of Scotland. He was also a member of the Disabled American Veterans."
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