Master and Commander
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Location: NE Florida | Subject: Thursday Obits
https://www.facebook.com/ussvi.eternalpatrol/
The above link goes to the USSVI (United States Submarine Veterans, Inc.) Facebook page where their members who have gone on “Eternal Patrol” are noted.
I’ll keep my work here going, trying to get others who were not USSVI members. You’re encouraged to look there as well as here! Obviously, there’ll be some I miss and some I duplicate.
PELLUM .. .. .. Christian Samuel Pellum, 22, of Jacksonville, FL, met his Lord on October 9, 2025. He tragically ended his life late Thursday evening—much too soon for family and friends who knew him best and loved him most.
He was born May 23, 2003 to Nathan and Rachel Pellum in Jacksonville, FL, where he spent much of his life. Christian attended Sacred Heart Catholic School in Jacksonville and graduated from Ridgeview High School in Orange Park in 2021. Shortly after graduation, Christian joined the U.S. Navy, where he was assigned to the elite submarine service. He was stationed in Washington State as a submariner aboard the nuclear submarine USS Nevada. After the military, Christian obtained a job at NAS-JAX Naval Base, training as an aircraft mechanic for the future F-35 jet engines. To that end, he recently completed a technical training program at Florida State College, earning a certificate for Engineering Technology Support Specialist.
Christian was a man of action. He drove fast—whether on his one wheel, bikes, or cars. He loved most sports and excelled at many. Throughout his school years, Martial Arts and swimming topped the list. But as he grew, Christian embraced any sport of the moment with skill and passion, as long as it involved adventure: snowboarding, boating, tubing,and all water activities.
Among his favorite pastimes were hanging out with his friends and passing time with his parents. He always enjoyed the moment, savoring Mexican beers, Pho, and Mama’s home cooking. Some of his happiest times were spent out at the lake with his Paw Paw and his friends.
Christian will be remembered as an easy-going, hard-working, kind young man, who often stood up for the underdogs during his life. To his friends, he was loyal and supportive; to his parents, he was respectful and helpful. To his sisters, Christian was a “mostly accommodating big brother.
He is survived by his parents, four sisters, Kari, Charlotte, Betty, and Barbara Pellum; grandparents Stewart and Denise Robinson; grandfather Sonny Pellum; a multitude of aunts, uncles and cousins from both sides of the family; and dozens of close friends, who will all miss the sunshine of his smile. Christian is predeceased by his paternal grandmother Jackie Pellum and maternal grandmother Barbara Robinson.
DAVIS .. .. .. Davis, Pierre Wayne, died Oct. 11, 2025, of congestive heart failure. Pierre was born in Mena, Arkansas, on March 22, 1950. During the Vietnam era he served in the U.S. Navy as a missile launch technician on a Polaris submarine. After the Navy, he earned a BFA from Arkansas Technical University in Russellville, Arkansas, specializing in painting, philosophy and literature, and a master’s degree in English literature from the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville.
Pierre was an essayist, a fiction writer and a poet, who once supported himself as a portrait painter. More than that, he was a gifted and intuitive mechanic and electrician and welder, and a fairly decent plumber.
After moving to St. Louis, he directed the Learning Achievement Center at St. Louis Community College-Forest Park, and taught composition and rhetoric for Fontbonne, Webster, and Washington universities. For many years, he taught technical and business writing for the University of Missouri-St. Louis.
He was an avid reader with a near photographic memory, a fisherman, a hiker, and a fan of car and motorcycle races as well as Southern and Russian literature.
He is survived by his wife, Mary Troy; his sister, Katherine (Dale) Fontenot of Vidor, Texas; and by his sisters and brothers-in-law Anne Troy, John Troy, Sally Miller and Michael Story, all of St. Louis, and Mark and Mary Fran Troy of College Station, Texas. He will be missed by all including his cousins, his nieces and nephews, his cousins-in-law, his friends and former students.
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