World War II Honoree

John Lawrence Morrow

Branch of Service

U.S. Navy

Hometown

Mack, Colorado

Honored By

Orville L. Kline

Rank: Aviation Pilot Second Class. He was inducted into the United States Navy August 5, 1940 at Denver, Colorado, with recruit training at the U.S. Naval Training Station San Diego, California. Upon his graduation from boot camp, he was selected to attend the Flight Aviation Training Program at the Naval Air Station, Corpus Christi, Texas. After completing his initial flight training program, he was transferred to the U.S. Naval Air Station at Pearl Harbor, Territory of Hawaii. Reported missing in action, lost at sea during a flight training exercise, April 8, 1943. In remembrance of the brave, his name is permanently inscribed in the tablets of the missing, memorialized at the Honolulu National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific ‘Punchbowl’ Hawaii. In his Memory and Honor, a cenotaph memorial has been placed at the Elmwood Cemetery in Fruita, Colorado.