Former Lexingtonian Killed On St. Paul
Commie Eugene Price Jr., 22, seaman in the United States Navy and former resident of Lexington, was killed in the powder blast on the USS St. Paul Monday.
Miss Juanita Shanks, 142 East Virginia avenue, a friend, was notified of his death yesterday.
The blast occurred in a gun turret while the heavy cruiser stood off the Korean coast pounding Red targets.
Price, a native of Somerset, attended Picadome and Lafayette schools here before entering the Navy about three years ago.
He is survived by his mother, Mrs. Floyd A. Ogborn, Tallahassee, Fla.; a brother, Charles Price, member of the National Guard at Tallahassee, and a sister, Mrs. G. S. West, also of Tallahassee.
Source: Herald Leader, Lexington, Kentucky, Sunday, April 27, 1952
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Seaman Commie Eugene Price was killed in action on April 21, 1952, aboard the USS St. Paul, a heavy cruiser deployed during the Korean War. While the St. Paul was providing fire support off of the coast of Korea, a gunpowder explosion rocked one of the turret guns. Price and 29 fellow sailors lost their lives. At the time it was the worst Naval disaster of the Korean War.
He was laid to rest at Oakland Cemetery on March 27, 1953.
He was survived by his mother, brother Charlie Price and fiancee Barbara Marlet.
Commie Eugene Price Jr., 22, seaman in the United States Navy and former resident of Lexington, was killed in the powder blast on the USS St. Paul Monday.
Miss Juanita Shanks, 142 East Virginia avenue, a friend, was notified of his death yesterday.
The blast occurred in a gun turret while the heavy cruiser stood off the Korean coast pounding Red targets.
Price, a native of Somerset, attended Picadome and Lafayette schools here before entering the Navy about three years ago.
He is survived by his mother, Mrs. Floyd A. Ogborn, Tallahassee, Fla.; a brother, Charles Price, member of the National Guard at Tallahassee, and a sister, Mrs. G. S. West, also of Tallahassee.
Source: Herald Leader, Lexington, Kentucky, Sunday, April 27, 1952
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Seaman Commie Eugene Price was killed in action on April 21, 1952, aboard the USS St. Paul, a heavy cruiser deployed during the Korean War. While the St. Paul was providing fire support off of the coast of Korea, a gunpowder explosion rocked one of the turret guns. Price and 29 fellow sailors lost their lives. At the time it was the worst Naval disaster of the Korean War.
He was laid to rest at Oakland Cemetery on March 27, 1953.
He was survived by his mother, brother Charlie Price and fiancee Barbara Marlet.
Former Lexingtonian Killed On St. Paul
Commie Eugene Price Jr., 22, seaman in the United States Navy and former resident of Lexington, was killed in the powder blast on the USS St. Paul Monday.
Miss Juanita Shanks, 142 East Virginia avenue, a friend, was notified of his death yesterday.
The blast occurred in a gun turret while the heavy cruiser stood off the Korean coast pounding Red targets.
Price, a native of Somerset, attended Picadome and Lafayette schools here before entering the Navy about three years ago.
He is survived by his mother, Mrs. Floyd A. Ogborn, Tallahassee, Fla.; a brother, Charles Price, member of the National Guard at Tallahassee, and a sister, Mrs. G. S. West, also of Tallahassee.
Source: Herald Leader, Lexington, Kentucky, Sunday, April 27, 1952
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Seaman Commie Eugene Price was killed in action on April 21, 1952, aboard the USS St. Paul, a heavy cruiser deployed during the Korean War. While the St. Paul was providing fire support off of the coast of Korea, a gunpowder explosion rocked one of the turret guns. Price and 29 fellow sailors lost their lives. At the time it was the worst Naval disaster of the Korean War.
He was laid to rest at Oakland Cemetery on March 27, 1953.
He was survived by his mother, brother Charlie Price and fiancee Barbara Marlet.
Commie Eugene Price Jr., 22, seaman in the United States Navy and former resident of Lexington, was killed in the powder blast on the USS St. Paul Monday.
Miss Juanita Shanks, 142 East Virginia avenue, a friend, was notified of his death yesterday.
The blast occurred in a gun turret while the heavy cruiser stood off the Korean coast pounding Red targets.
Price, a native of Somerset, attended Picadome and Lafayette schools here before entering the Navy about three years ago.
He is survived by his mother, Mrs. Floyd A. Ogborn, Tallahassee, Fla.; a brother, Charles Price, member of the National Guard at Tallahassee, and a sister, Mrs. G. S. West, also of Tallahassee.
Source: Herald Leader, Lexington, Kentucky, Sunday, April 27, 1952
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Seaman Commie Eugene Price was killed in action on April 21, 1952, aboard the USS St. Paul, a heavy cruiser deployed during the Korean War. While the St. Paul was providing fire support off of the coast of Korea, a gunpowder explosion rocked one of the turret guns. Price and 29 fellow sailors lost their lives. At the time it was the worst Naval disaster of the Korean War.
He was laid to rest at Oakland Cemetery on March 27, 1953.
He was survived by his mother, brother Charlie Price and fiancee Barbara Marlet.
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Here he lies, where he longed to be,
Home is the Sailor, home from the sea.
He was not ours, he was only loaned to us
for so short a time.
And now the Lord has taken what was His.
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