George Moss

Lieutenant Commander

USN SeaBee Retired

Born: 15 MAR 1926  Died: 6 Mar 2002

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N0EFH

MCB 10

MOSS, George

LCDR George Moss, US Navy (Ret.), 77, of Summerville, husband of Eunice Mae Cooke Moss died Wednesday morning in a North Charleston hospital.

Funeral service for LCDR Moss will be held Monday, March 11, 2002 at 11 o'clock in St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Summerville. Burial will be in the church cemetery.

Friends may call at James A. Dyal Funeral Home, Summerville from 6 until 8 o'clock this Sunday evening.

In lieu of flowers memorials may be made to: The Palmetto House, 821 Central Ave., Summerville, S.C. 29483.

Mr. Moss was born on March 15, 1924, in Newport News, Virginia, a son of the late Thomas Humphrey Moss and Helen Offensandt Moss.  He graduated from the University of New Haven in Connecticut where he received his Bachelor of Science Degree. LCDR Moss served in the Navy during the Korean Conflict and served two tours in the Vietnam War., where he received the Purple Heart. In February 1956 LCDR Moss was a part of Operation Deep Freeze in Antarctica, where he and six other Navy personnel were involved in an aircraft crash. While returning to their home base from a mission, they were presumed missing. A recovery mission was launched and the wreckage was located seven days later and all had survived. LCDR Moss was the last survivor of this accident and Operation Deep Freeze.

Following his retirement from the U.S. Navy, he worked as a Computer Aided Drafting Instructor with the Dorchester County Career School.

He was an active member of St. Paul's Episcopal Church.

Surviving are his wife; sons, Jonathan Paul Moss of Summerville, George W. Moss of Wilbraham, Mass.; daughters, Susan Moss of Boca Raton, Fla., Terry Drum of Buffalo, N.Y.; 6 grandchildren; brothers, Harry Moss of Cocoa Beach, Fla., Tom Moss, Jr. of Camden, N.J.

Arrangements by JAMES A. DYAL FUNERAL HOME, 303 SOUTH MAIN STREET, SUMMERVILLE, S.C.