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Stanley George Parkinson, the son of Herbert and Helen (Russell) Parkinson, was born on May 21, 1905, in Cheyenne, Wyoming. By the age of five, he was living with his family in California. Stanley lived in Schenectady following his marriage, and his wife, Virginia, had spent the majority of her life in Schenectady.
Stanley enlisted in the United States Navy in 1923. He held the rank of Boatswain's Mate First Class and was assigned to the USS Jacob Jones (DD130) in 1942. On February 28, 1942, Stanley went missing when the submarine U-578 torpedoed the USS Jacob Jones off Cape May, New Jersey. 138 crew members died that day. Stanley is remembered at the Tablets of the Missing, East Coast Memorial and St. Mary's Cemetery, Schenectady, New York.
Sources: The Schenectady Gazette, Find A Grave, Ancestry
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