Walter Sargent

Marriage of Miss Mary Irving Hendershot and Walter Shepherd Sargent
Wilkes-Barre Times Leader, the Evening News, Oct 23 1926, P. 3, Col. 3

"The wedding of Miss Mary Irving Hendershot, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. I. S. Hendershot, 43 Academy Street, Plymouth [PA], to Walter Shepherd Sargent son of Mr. and Mrs. D. C. Sargent, Quincy, Mass. took place today in the Church of Transfiguration, the Little Church Around the Corner, New York City. Rev. Randolf Jackson Ray officiated. Only immediate members and friends of both families were present.
  Miss Jennie Thomas, Nanticoke and John Avery. Summerville, Mass., were the attendants.
  The bride is a graduate of Plymouth High School and Drexel Institute. She also completed a post graduate course at Pennsylvania Hospital, Philadelphia.
  She was chief dietician at the Frankford Hospital, Philadelphia and for some time held the same position at Wyoming Valley Homeopathic Hospital.
  Mr. Sargent Is a graduate of Columbla Preparatory School, Washington, D.C., and the United States Naval Academy, at Annapolis. For some time he served as ensign in the navy but retired to private life. At the present time, he is engaged with his father as a road contractor at Quincy. Mass.
  Following a wedding trip to the New England States, they will reside at 12 Park lane. Quincy, Mass."

Obituary for Walter S. Sargent. Rear Adm. Walter Sargent Of Quincy Succumbs At 57
The Patriot Ledger [Quincy, MA], Sep 14 1959, P. 1, Cols. 5-6, with photo

"Rear Adm. Walter S. Sargent, 57, (ret.) of 149 Putnam Street, Quincy, died yesterday in the Veterans Hospital, Jamaica Plain, following a long illness.
  == World War II Veteran ==
  A U.S. Naval Reserve officer, he received the Bronze Star medal for meritorious service as executive officer of the USS Arkansas, during World War II's D-Day invasion in Europe.
  Admiral Sargent had been hospitalized for four years.
  He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Mary I. (Hendershot) Sargent; his father, Ezekiel C. Sargent, former Quincy public works commissioner, both of the home address. and a sister, Mrs. Olive Connell of Dean Street, Braintree.
  He is a nephew of Dr. Walter L. Sargent of Quincy.
  Admiral Sargent received his World War II citation in 1945, from Undersecretary of the Navy Ralph Bard.  He served aboard the Arkansas for four years at turret officer senior assistant engineer and chief engineer before being named the ship's executive officer. During the D-Day invasion, the Arkansas shelled German positions along the French coast.
  Admiral Sargent was a 1923 graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis, Md. He was a classmate of Admiral Arleigh Burke, present chief of Naval Operations.
  He later graduated from the 11th management course at Harvard University. He was a 1919 graduate of Quincy High School.
  Admiral Sargent resigned from the Navy in 1926, and joined a New York management engineering firm of Stevenson, Jordan and Harrison.
  Military funeral services will be at 2 o'clock Wednesday afternoon at the Wickens and Troupe Funeral Home, 26 Adams Street. The Rev. Frank J. Bauer, pastor of the Wollaston Lutheran Church and chaplain at the Jamaica Plain Veterans Hospital, will officiate. Burial will be in Mt. Wollaston Cemetery."

Walter S Sargent

DoB: 25 Sep 1901
Died: 13 Sep 1959
Buried: Mount Wollaston Cemetery, Quincy, Norfolk County, Massachusetts