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At random: The first periscope used by the United States Navy was not built for a submarine. The ironclad monitor OSAGE utilized a periscope to discover a Confederate cavalry unit taking cover behind the high banks of the Red River in Arkansas.

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Posted 2025-11-14 1:18 PM (#105792)

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Location: NE Florida

Subject: Friday 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.

TARANTO .. .. .. Steven Taranto, 84, of Ponte Vedra, Florida passed away on Sunday, November 9th, 2025. Born in Palermo, Italy, he lived in Paramus and Elmwood Park before settling in Ponte Vedra, Florida for the past 5 years. He built several European repair shops in Brooklyn and in New Jersey before retiring. He served in the Italian Navy on the Submarine Leonardo Davinci. He was a former president and lifetime member of the Lions Club in Waldwick.
Beloved husband of the late Carmella (nee Cerami), loving mother of Steven Taranto & Sabrina Burke, her husband Jack, proud grandfather of John, Julia & Alaina, also survived by his dog, Bocce.

OUELLETTE .. .. .. Wilfred W. “Bill” Ouellette, 82, a resident of Easton, passed away on November 12, 2025 at the VA Boston Healthcare System in West Roxbury after a period of failing health. He was the loving husband of Rita F. (Tyler) Ouellette for 48 years.
Born in Rockland, a son of the late Albert J. and Bertha E. (Vincent) Ouellette, he was raised in Easton and was a 1961 graduate of Oliver Ames High School.
A veteran of the US Navy he served during the Vietnam War as an EN2(SS) on the USS Sabalo Submarine SS302 from 1961-1969 and was honorably discharged.
Bill began his work employment as an owner operator for commercial trucking which he operated for 6 years. Bill resided in California for 17 years and took a position with the Heavy Equipment Operating Engineers Local 12 in California.
Bill and his wife Rita moved back to Easton 30 years ago where he took a position with the Heavy Equipment Operating Engineers Local 4 and last worked for J.F. White of Stoughton.
Bill enjoyed traveling and visited all 50 states but mostly he appreciated time spent with his grandkids and his loving cats. An avid reader he also enjoyed looking for old clocks at yard sale and flee markets which he would tinker with and fix back to new.
In addition to his wife Rita, he is survived by his children, Jessi Rinehart Donovan and her husband John Donovan of Easton and Charles Ouellette and his wife Brenna Campbell of Cumberland, RI.; and two grandchildren, Mia A. Martz of Christiansburg, VA., and Jack Rinehart of Easton.

DINSMORE .. .. .. John "Jack" Patrick Dinsmore, 94, a resident of Devon, PA, passed away peacefully on November 10, 2025, at the age of 94 after a ten-year journey with Alzheimer's Disease.
He was preceded in death by his parents, nine brothers and sisters, and his loving wife of 44 years, Dulcine Dinsmore.
He is survived by his seven children, Dulcine Dinsmore, Susan Masciandaro (Michael), Theodore Dinsmore (Diane), Nancy Graham (Robert), Samuel Dinsmore, Daniel Dinsmore (Katharine), and Andrea Meals, and by his thirteen grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.
Jack grew up in Glenolden, Pennsylvania. Upon graduation from the former St. James High School for Boys, he joined the U.S. Navy and served in the Korean War. He was stationed on a submarine in the Sea of Japan. Recognized for his technical abilities, Jack had the opportunity to advance to the officer corps, but he chose to return home in the mid-1950s to begin a family. He married his beloved wife Dulcine in 1957, and he started a long and distinguished career as a technician with the Bell Telephone Company.
Jack dedicated his life to his family. He worked tirelessly to support his seven children, whether through picking up extra shifts and odd jobs, or early morning fishing trips on the weekends. He was also an inveterate builder and tinkerer, never contracting out a home improvement project that he could do himself or with his sons. He never bought anything he could make on his own.
Other than spending time with his family and (eventually) grandchildren, Jack enjoyed hosting family cookouts, tending his large garden, and chopping wood. He was a proud Scoutmaster for Great Valley Troop 206; father to three Eagle Scouts and grandfather to two. He received the Vigil Honor of the Order of the Arrow, and he was a dedicated Horseshoe Scout Reservation volunteer.
Jack will be remembered most as the patriarch of a large and close-knit family. His two homes, in Pennsylvania and Delaware, were always open, usually with the distinctive music of the Lawrence Welk Show radiating from whatever room Jack was occupying. He loved nothing more than for his family to come by – to enjoy the pool he carefully tended, tell stories, or simply spend time together. Down the shore, Jack enjoyed taking his family on all manner of marine activities – crabbing, clamming, boating, or whatever else came to mind.
The sudden death of his wife Dulcine in 2001 was a difficult blow for Jack, but he adapted and built a new routine with his characteristic nobility of spirit. It comforts his family in this difficult time to know that Jack is now reunited with Dulcine after these long 24 years.
The family is especially grateful to Jack's daughter, Nancy, for her unwavering dedication and loving care of Jack during his struggle with Alzheimer's. She provided him in his final years with the comfort and dignity that he so richly deserved.

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