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Posted 2025-07-08 3:10 PM (#105520)

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Subject: Tuesday 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.

STRAHAN .. .. .. Gary Francis Strahan, age 85, passed away on June 30, 2025. Gary was born in 1940 to Bus and Maxine Strahan in Wayne, Nebraska. Even after moving to California with his family, Gary always thought of Nebraska as his home. From the age of fourteen, he would take the bus back every summer from California to Nebraska to help his grandmother with the family farm in Albion, Nebraska. After graduating high school, Gary attended the local college for a year and then decided to join the Navy.
He spent 9 years in the Navy and served on the first US submarine to surface at the North Pole. He was stationed in New London, Connecticut, where he met and married the love of his life, Joanne Klimanowski, in 1963. His oldest son, Joseph was born in 1964, followed by Kimberly in 1965, and Christopher in 1967.
After discharging from the Navy in 1967, he took a job with Honeywell and moved to Albuquerque, New Mexico. His youngest daughter, Mary-Sue, was born in 1971.
Gary spent the next several years raising his family and working for Honeywell, then Prime Computers, and finally the Bureau of Land Management, where he retired after a successful career.
Gary enjoyed hunting with his family and friends and spending time outdoors hiking, fishing, hunting, and camping. He also got his private pilot's license and loved his time flying for the Civil Air Patrol. He also loved spending time with his family and friends skiing and riding his bicycle.
Gary is survived by his loving wife of 62 years, Joanne, their four children, nine grandchildren: Dan, Juliette, Sophia, Alex, Kira, Max, Zeke, Zech and Derek, and one great-grandson, Gino. He is also survived by his four siblings, Mary Susan, Patricia, Timothy, and Daniel.

REEP .. .. .. If you listen closely, you can hear laughter echoing from heaven. Chances are, Benton Wayne Reep is telling a corny joke to entertain the angels. He joined the community of saints on July 4th peacefully and with “his girls” by his side—Sharon, his wife of 54 years, and Cyndi and Teresa, his twin daughters. Thanks to the week the family always spent together for Independence Day, his son-in-law, Eric, and grandchildren Emma and Grayson, were also with him.
Many in Arab will remember “Rooster” from Roosters Coffee Barn, owned and operated by him and Sharon from June 2006 to December 2012. Maybe he told you a joke while you waited for your “flapaccino” or prepared your lunch. He quietly served others through kindness, compassion, and a helpful spirit.
It is fitting that Ben departed for his heavenly home on Independence Day. He loved his country, having proudly served twenty years in the U.S. Navy, retiring as Chief Hospital Corpsman, Submarine Service in 1988. He’d also joke that, this way, fireworks would forever mark his triumphant departure!
Ben loved bass fishing, testing new recipes, woodworking, reading (from Westerns to romances), and shopping on Amazon. He was a guy’s guy who teared up talking about his faith and family. He wasn’t a man of many words, but what he did say mattered. He’d want us to end this—to him an unnecessary tribute—with the line he’d become famous for amongst family and friends. “God loves you, and so do I.”
Ben is survived by his wife, Sharon Reep; his daughter Cyndi Browning and grandson Grayson Browning; his daughter Teresa Tysinger, her husband Eric and Ben’s granddaughter Emma; as well as many nieces, nephews, and extended family from coast to coast who loved him. He is preceded in death by his parents Isaac and Wella Reep; siblings Elsie Webb, VaRue Midgette, David Reep, and Linda Reep; and nephews Ricky Midgette and Louie Webb.

DUKE .. .. .. Lisbon - Charles Allen Duke, "Duke" as he was known, 93, of Lisbon died Sunday evening at Lawrence + Memorial Hospital in New London.

He was born in Birmingham, Ala., March 12, 1932, to Oliver and Esther Vickers Duke. Soon after birth his family moved to Texas, then to North Dakota, and finally to New Hampshire and graduated from Dow Academy in 1951.

After graduation he enlisted in the U.S. Navy and served on many ships and submarines and is a veteran of the Korean and Vietnam Wars, retiring in 1965 and then worked at alter Kiddie as an electrical technician. He then worked at Uncas-on-Thames Hospital from 1975 until he retired in 1997.

Duke was a member of many Masonic Lodges, the Sphinx Shriners Hospital, the Valley of Norwich Scottish Rite Masons, It was early in his Masonic life he started "clowning round" and became known as Duke the Clown. He was a balloon artist, performed card tricks and magic and marched in parades, visited hospitals and children's homes for more than 25 years. He still found time to be active with Boy Scouts, Webster Scout Camp and Rainbow for Girls.

Over the years R.W. Brother C.A. Duke has served as a Master of Somerset Lodge, A.F. and A.M, and a member of National Sojourners, Order of Eastern Star, a Heros of 76 and numerous camping organizations. He was appointed by the Grand Lodge of Connecticut to serve as the Associate Grand Marshall for Masonic District 8-A and later as the District Deputy. Duke received countless awards for his time, service and generosity and in recognition he was awarded the high honor of Pierpoint Edwards Medal of Bronze from the Grand Lodge of Connecticut.

He is survived by his three daughters, Pamela Lehman and Kinberly Kendall both of Wisconsin and Patricia Timmons of Texas; a son, Chris Duke of Caldwell, Idaho and six grandchildren.

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