Kent Blake Fitzgerald was born March 1, 1922, in Richfield, Utah, to Walter Fitzgerald, a real estate agent, and Beatrice Blake Fitzgerald, a homemaker.
The boy was 10 when his mother died at age 46 a few weeks after the birth of another son.
His father remarried Vera Harding the next year.
Kent Fitzgerald attended elementary school in Richfield and in Salt Lake City. He graduated from West High in Salt Lake City and belonged to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.
Mr. Fitzgerald enlisted in the Marines in August 1940 and was a gunnery private on the U.S.S. Arizona when he was killed in the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Dec. 7, 1941.
Sources: the Salt Lake Tribune; the Deseret News of Salt Lake City; the Salt Lake City Telegram; Utah death record; Marine muster roll; Census. This profile was researched and written on behalf of the U.S.S. Arizona Mall Memorial at the University of Arizona.
Contributor: USS Arizona Mall Memorial at University of Arizona (50022871)
The boy was 10 when his mother died at age 46 a few weeks after the birth of another son.
His father remarried Vera Harding the next year.
Kent Fitzgerald attended elementary school in Richfield and in Salt Lake City. He graduated from West High in Salt Lake City and belonged to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.
Mr. Fitzgerald enlisted in the Marines in August 1940 and was a gunnery private on the U.S.S. Arizona when he was killed in the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Dec. 7, 1941.
Sources: the Salt Lake Tribune; the Deseret News of Salt Lake City; the Salt Lake City Telegram; Utah death record; Marine muster roll; Census. This profile was researched and written on behalf of the U.S.S. Arizona Mall Memorial at the University of Arizona.
Contributor: USS Arizona Mall Memorial at University of Arizona (50022871)
Kent Blake Fitzgerald was born March 1, 1922, in Richfield, Utah, to Walter Fitzgerald, a real estate agent, and Beatrice Blake Fitzgerald, a homemaker.
The boy was 10 when his mother died at age 46 a few weeks after the birth of another son.
His father remarried Vera Harding the next year.
Kent Fitzgerald attended elementary school in Richfield and in Salt Lake City. He graduated from West High in Salt Lake City and belonged to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.
Mr. Fitzgerald enlisted in the Marines in August 1940 and was a gunnery private on the U.S.S. Arizona when he was killed in the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Dec. 7, 1941.
Sources: the Salt Lake Tribune; the Deseret News of Salt Lake City; the Salt Lake City Telegram; Utah death record; Marine muster roll; Census. This profile was researched and written on behalf of the U.S.S. Arizona Mall Memorial at the University of Arizona.
Contributor: USS Arizona Mall Memorial at University of Arizona (50022871)
The boy was 10 when his mother died at age 46 a few weeks after the birth of another son.
His father remarried Vera Harding the next year.
Kent Fitzgerald attended elementary school in Richfield and in Salt Lake City. He graduated from West High in Salt Lake City and belonged to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.
Mr. Fitzgerald enlisted in the Marines in August 1940 and was a gunnery private on the U.S.S. Arizona when he was killed in the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Dec. 7, 1941.
Sources: the Salt Lake Tribune; the Deseret News of Salt Lake City; the Salt Lake City Telegram; Utah death record; Marine muster roll; Census. This profile was researched and written on behalf of the U.S.S. Arizona Mall Memorial at the University of Arizona.
Contributor: USS Arizona Mall Memorial at University of Arizona (50022871)
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