Navy 3rd Class Commissaryman Stanley Howard Emond was born in Worcester, Massachusetts on June 2, 1929, the son of Joseph Harvey Emond (1895-1979) and Della Hazel Emerson (1896-1969). Joseph lived and worked in Massachusetts until WWII when he enlisted in the US Navy on October 23, 1942. He would serve aboard the destroyer DD-45 USS Andres as a coxswain. He would relocate to Pensacola around 1949 where he would spend the next 26-years working as a painter before moving to Ft. Lauderdale, Florida in 1975.
His son would follow in his father's footsteps by enlisting in the US Navy on June 4, 1946 as a commisaryman. He was stationed aboard the cruiser CL-119 USS Juneau in 1946 and later transferred to the destroyer DD-776 USS James C. Owens Jr. His ship was named after Lt. James C. Owens who was a member of the famous Torpedo 8 squadron that was wiped out during the Battle of Midway. In the meantime, he would marry Lois Louise Stevens (1935-) on January 19, 1952 in Grundy, Virginia.
Not long after the wedding Stanley's ship left for the Far East on January 22, 1952 as his wife moved in with his parents at 214 S. 8th Avenue. Stanley and his ship arrived in the Western Pacific on February 27th and was put to work conducting blockade and interdiction patrols along the Korean coast. While operating off Songjin on May 7th, she engaged a number of enemy shore batteries and were able to put several of them out of commission. However, in the fiery exchange she took six direct hits with one exploding a depth charge cannister. In the engagement, Stanley was killed along with two other sailors with five others wounded.
Several months later, Stanley's remains were shipped home and buried in Barrancas National Cemetery on August 25, 1952.
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