DUCKWORTH, Herbert Spencer: Died 1990

DUCKWORTH, SURFACE, KIDD, JOHNS

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Date: 1/23/2025 at 20:03:41

Deaths/Iowa
DM Reg.
1990 MY 31

Herbert S. Duckworth

JACKSONVILLE, FLA. (AP) - Services for retired Vice Adm. Herbert Spencer Duckworth, 90, who died Tuesday at St. Luke's Hospital in Jacksonville will be at 10:30 a.m. today to the chapel at Jacksonville Naval Air Station, where Admiral Duckworth served as commanding officer from 1947 t0 1948. Burial with Military honors will be at Arlington National Cemetery. Admiral Duckworth was born in Keosauqua, Ia., and graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1922. He was air officer on the aircraft carrier USS Lexington during the battle of the Coral Sea in 1942 and commanding officer of the aircraft carrier USS Cowpens in 1945. He was credited with flying the first U.S. flag over a Japanese air base after the U.S. occupation of Japan following World War II. Admiral Duckworth retired in 1952. Survivors include his wife Myrtle, of Jacksonville; two sons, John A. Duckworth of New Smyrna Beach, Fla., and J. Frank Surface of Jacksonville, and two daughters, Barbara S. Kidd and Jacquelyn S. Johns, both of Jacksonville.

Source: "Scrapbook 1989 - 1990", Pg. 700,
Keosauqua Public Library, Keosauqua, Van Buren Co., IA