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CDR Fred Milton Perkins

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CDR Fred Milton Perkins

Birth
Salem, Marion County, Oregon, USA
Death
22 Dec 1924 (aged 37)
San Diego, San Diego County, California, USA
Burial
Portland, Multnomah County, Oregon, USA Add to Map
Plot
Sec 14, Lot 62, Grave 1
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Perkins Funeral Set – Services to Be Held Tomorrow at Holman Chapel.

Funeral services for Commander Fred M. Perkins, U.S.N., gunnery officer of the Pacific fleet, who died in San Diego Monday following an airplane crash December 15 at San Pedro, will be held at the Holman funeral chapel tomorrow at 10:30 A.M., his father, William T. Perkins, 263 Montgomery street, announced last night.

In accordance with the expressed wish of his son, the funeral and the interment, which will be at the Riverview cemetery, will be private, Mr. Perkins said. Dr. B. Earle Parker and Rev. William Wallace Youngson will officiate.

Commander Perkins' body will arrive today at 3:30 o'clock at the Union station. Accompanying the body are his widow, Mrs. Margaret Perkins, and his son Sutherland and his two brothers, William H. of Klamath Falls, Or., and Phillip B. of Portland, both of whom were in San Diego with their brother at the time of death.

[The Oregonian, 26 Dec 1924, p20]

PERKINS – At San Diego, Cal., Dec. 22, 1924, Commander Fred Milton Perkins, husband of Margaret S. Perkins, father of Sutherland and Peggy Perkins, son of Mr. and Mrs. William T. Perkins, brother of Mrs. Mildred Claire Yantis, Mrs. Dorothy Gail Perkins, William H. and Phillip B. Perkins. Funeral services will be held at the chapel of Edward Holman & Son, 828 Hawthorne ave., at 27th, at 10:30 A.M. Interment in River View cemetery. Services and interment private.

[The Oregonian, 26 Dec 1924, p21]

Navy Cross Citation
The President of the United States of America takes pleasure in presenting the Navy Cross to Commander Fred Milton Perkins, United States Navy, for distinguished service in the line of his profession as Force Engineer and later as Secretary of Cruises and Transport Force and temporarily as Chief of Staff during World War I.

Contributor: BarryC (47806468)
Perkins Funeral Set – Services to Be Held Tomorrow at Holman Chapel.

Funeral services for Commander Fred M. Perkins, U.S.N., gunnery officer of the Pacific fleet, who died in San Diego Monday following an airplane crash December 15 at San Pedro, will be held at the Holman funeral chapel tomorrow at 10:30 A.M., his father, William T. Perkins, 263 Montgomery street, announced last night.

In accordance with the expressed wish of his son, the funeral and the interment, which will be at the Riverview cemetery, will be private, Mr. Perkins said. Dr. B. Earle Parker and Rev. William Wallace Youngson will officiate.

Commander Perkins' body will arrive today at 3:30 o'clock at the Union station. Accompanying the body are his widow, Mrs. Margaret Perkins, and his son Sutherland and his two brothers, William H. of Klamath Falls, Or., and Phillip B. of Portland, both of whom were in San Diego with their brother at the time of death.

[The Oregonian, 26 Dec 1924, p20]

PERKINS – At San Diego, Cal., Dec. 22, 1924, Commander Fred Milton Perkins, husband of Margaret S. Perkins, father of Sutherland and Peggy Perkins, son of Mr. and Mrs. William T. Perkins, brother of Mrs. Mildred Claire Yantis, Mrs. Dorothy Gail Perkins, William H. and Phillip B. Perkins. Funeral services will be held at the chapel of Edward Holman & Son, 828 Hawthorne ave., at 27th, at 10:30 A.M. Interment in River View cemetery. Services and interment private.

[The Oregonian, 26 Dec 1924, p21]

Navy Cross Citation
The President of the United States of America takes pleasure in presenting the Navy Cross to Commander Fred Milton Perkins, United States Navy, for distinguished service in the line of his profession as Force Engineer and later as Secretary of Cruises and Transport Force and temporarily as Chief of Staff during World War I.

Contributor: BarryC (47806468)

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