Huron County MI Archives Obituaries.....Kavanagh, John S. September 13, 1944
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Military Honors for Bad Axe Sailor who Died in Florida
  Bad Axe, Sept 16 -- Military honors here Monday morning by Sherman Elvin post 
#96 American Legion, will be accorded John S. Kavanagh, 25, chief radio 
technician, who died Wed. in a Pensacola, FL naval hospital.  Rev Charles A. 
Roard will officiate at funeral services at 9:30 a.m. Monday in Sacred Heart 
Cath Ch. Burial will be in Colfax cemetery.  The remains arrived her Sat. From 
Pensacola accompanied by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. John R. Kavanagh, this city, 
who had gone to Pensacola a week ago and his brother, Martin, photographer's 
mate 3/c, serving as official Navy escort.  Martin Kavanagh, who is stationed on 
Terminal Island at San Pedro, CA flew to Pensacola when notified of his 
brother's critical condition. After his brother's death, Martin was designated 
by the Navy as official escort.

While John S. Kavanagh was ill in the hospital, he received his commission as an 
ensign in the Navy, subject to a physical examination, which he was to have had 
as soon as he recovered.  His parents, six sisters, Sister Marie Edith, O.P. 
Toledo, Mrs. J Harold Steffes, Berkley, MI; Mrs. Jerome Kladzyk, Bad Axe; 
and Misses Patricia, Jean and Alice Kavanagh, all at home; and two brothers, 
Corp James Kavanagh, New Guinea, and Martin Kavanagh survive.

Born March 2, 1919, in Bad Axe, he attended Sacred Heart grade school and Bad 
Axe High school.  He engaged in electrical work here several years before 
enlisting 2 1/2 years ago.  He received boot training in Great Lakes, IL and 
served later at the Naval armory in Chicago, Treasure Island at San Francisco, 
Little Rock, Ark, and Panama City, FL where he was taken ill.  He was an 
instructor in radar.  Stores in the business district closed for one hour this 
morning and flags throughout Bad Axe were flown at half mast.


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