ASA TAPS: � 2002
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Jerry Logue (2002)

Submitted by Warren Noble

Jerry Logue, a friend and ex-ASA pilot, passed away recently. He lived in North Fort Myers, FL. Jerry used to fly Beaver aircraft in Germany. He was COL McFadden's pilot when he was Chief ASA Europe. Jerry also flew RDF missions in Vietnam and Udorn Thailand during the mid-60s. Jerry was a retired Major.

Michael Paul Slater (January 2002)

From The ASA Interceptor Newsletter

M. Paul Slater (Scheyern 52-53) passed away in his sleep on January 13, 2002. Paul, who had been living in Sarasota, Florida, was moved to Pennsylvania where, under the care of his sisters and nieces, he passed away.

Don Gaskill (January 2002)

Rich Sekella reports: On January 5, 2002, Don Gaskill, from Georgia, passed away due to a dissected aorta. Don served with the 76th USASA SOU, Shu Linkow Taiwan, in 1963.

James Irving Hunter Jr. (January 2002)

James Irving Hunter Jr., 74, of Carthage, Mo. died at his home early Sunday morning, January 20, 2002. He was born on December 22, 1927 in Carthage, Mo. to James Irving and LuVerne Hunter and he resided in Carthage all of his life. He graduated from Carthage High School in 1945, where he was a member of the ROTC, and he attended Joplin Junior College after completing his service in the Army Security Agency of the United States Army. In 1948, he went into business with his father, Irv, at B&W Tire and Battery in Carthage. Later, he and his father formed Hunter Tire Company where he worked with his two sons until his retirement in 1993. The business he and his father built continues to be owned and operated by his family. He married Patricia Jean Phillips on January 28, 1949 in Carthage, Mo. where they enjoyed 53 years of marriage, raised two children and had seven grandchildren. He cherished his family, friends and his community, which has been home to the Hunter family for six generations. He was a life-long member of the First United Methodist Church and, as part of his work for the church, he served as Cub Scout Master for several years. He loved to work with children and was a strong supporter of youth activity programs. He coached, and later managed, Little League and Farm League baseball teams for many years. He was an avid art collector and was very active in supporting local artists. He also enjoyed collecting coins and was a coin dealer for several years.

He is survived by his wife, Jean. Also surviving are his two sons, James Irving Hunter IV of Carthage, his wife, Cheral, and Phillip Martin Hunter of Carthage, and his wife, Kim; his grandchildren, Kelly Hunter Burch and her husband Lynn Burch, Alyssa Anne Hunter, Christopher James Hunter, Stephanie Marie Colln, Laura Adelle Hunter, Kirby Lynn Hunter, and Chase Edward Colln; his brother, Elliot Hunter of Carthage; and his sister, Sally Dorris and her husband Gary of Miami, Okla.

Alfred H. Savary (Janaury 2002)

Warren Noble reports: Alfred H. Savary, 73, of North Port Florida, passed away January 24, 2002. Al served with the ASA and moved to Florida in 1980 from Arlington VA. During his 23 years of service he served in WWII and the Korean War.

C. Earl Hagood (January 2002)

Giff Kucsma reports that C. Earl Hagood passed away of a heart attack on January 19, 2002. Earl served in the 319th ASA Bn in Rothwesten during the early 60s. Earl is survived by his wife Judy, 112 Hillside Drive, Lafayette, LA 70503.

Perry M. Stromberg (January 2002)

Perry M. Stromberg passed away on January 23, 2002 from lung and stomach cancer. Perry was an NCO, and had served several outstation tours with Detachment V and other ASA organizations during his career.

William O. Wood (January 2002)

WOOD, William O., 73, of St. Petersburg, died Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2002 at Northside Hospital. Born in Tampa, he was a lifelong resident of this area. He retired in 1987 from GTE Data Services, Tampa. Prior to GTE, he was employed for 15 years by the American Can Company, Tampa and had been employed by the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency) and the ASA (Army Security Agency, now called the Nation al Security Agency). He was a member of Holy Family Catholic Church, and was a veteran of the Army, serving during the Korean Conflict. Survivors include his wife of 48 years, Doris J. Wood of St. Petersburg; two daughters, Cynthia Lee O'Donnell of Topeka, Kan., and Lorraine Doris Tuccio of St. Petersburg; two sons, William Darby Wood of St. Petersburg, and Jeffrey Joseph Wood of Pinellas Park; th ree grand- children, Melissa Mae Tuccio of St. Petersburg, Taylor Zachary Wood of Pinellas Park, and Matthew Anthony Tuccio of St. Petersburg. Additional information is available at www.blountcurrytoel.com where friends are invited to sign the family's online guestbook.

Marie S. Pankey (January 2002)

Marie S. Pankey died at 1:10 p.m. Wednesday (Jan. 16, 2002) at the Wesley Homes Health Center, Des Moines, Wash. Mrs. Pankey was born May 7, 1904, in Minonk, a daughter of Martin and Catherine Cleary Stack. She married Lindal Henry Pankey on July 31, 1933, in Peoria. He died May 31, 1970. She is survived by one son, Quentin "Gary" Pankey, Renton, Wash.

In the late 1940s, she was an employee of the Army Security Agency (later NSA) and worked on Project Venona, the successful decryption of Soviet diplomatic communications. These efforts led to the arrest and conviction of Soviet atomic spies in the U.S. Her later work as an adjudicator in the Passport Office of the U.S. State Department instilled in her a love of international travel. She retired in 1975.

Robert Boyd Hulick (January 2002)

Robert Boyd Hulick passed away peacefully January 21, 2002 in Salt Lake City, UT. at St. Mark's Hospital due to complications related to diabetes.

The son of Albert (Gus) and Evelyn Hulick, he was born on June 14, 1935, in Provo, Utah. Married Jill Smith on July 2, 1967.

He attended BYU where he received a B.S. in Geology. He then served in the U.S. Army Security Agency from 1957-1960, in Hokkaido, Japan.

"Ed" Charles Joyner (January 2002)

"Ed" Joyner, 1SG, passed away Wednesday, 30 Jan 2002 in Shannon Hospital, San Angelo TX. He died from a heart attack. Ed was 60 years old. After retiring from the Army Security Agency, Ed became a Tom Green County Marshall, a job he clearly loved. He suffered the first heart attack about week prior to this death.

LTC David Becher (Ret) (February 2002)

David Becher pased away at the VA Home in Virginia Beach. He was in his mid-80s. After service in the Korea Conflict, Dave attended the Advance Course at Fort Devens and was assigned to Headquarters, ASA IG Section. Later he served at both Headquarters ASA-Europe and Headquarters, US Army Europe. Dave also served at NSA before his retirement.

William Schuetz (February 2002)

Chris Homeier reports: We lost a Herzo buddy, William "Willie" Schuetz on February 3, 2002. He had a full military funeral.

Roger Cannon (February 2002)

Submitted by Jim Ketchum

If any of you knew a 'duffy' by the name of Roger Cannon be advised that is a 'Silent Key' as of 25 February. Roger served with the 176th USASA in 1958/59.

Carl W.A. Carlson (February 2002)

Former American Numismatic Association (ANA) historian, numismatic researcher, cataloger and writer Carl W.A. Carlson died on February 12, 2002, in a hospice in Lee, Massachusetts. He was 59 years old. Diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease 10 years ago, he succumbed to pneumonia.

For several decades, Carlson was one of the numismatic world's premier researchers, according to colleague and friend David T. Alexander. A contributor to R.W. Julian's important reference Medals of the United States Mint: the First Century, 1792-1892, published in 1977, Carlson served as ANA historian from 1987 to 1991 and co-edited the ANA Centennial Anthology with Michael J. Hodder. Carlson also was a contributor to the ANA's monthly journal, The Numismatist, and was the recipient of several George Heath Literary Awards, including a 1982 first place award.

A 1963 graduate of Middlebury College in Vermont, Carlson received his master's degree in classics in 1965 from the University of Illinois and pursued advanced studies at the doctoral level at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Following his graduate studies, Carlson served with the U.S. Army Security Agency, where he was a specialist in cryptography.

Pursuing his lifelong attraction to numismatics, Carlson served as curator of the Garrett Family Collection for four years when it was housed at Evergreen House at The Johns Hopkins University. He next served as cataloger for Paramount International Coin Corporation before coming to New York, where he joined the newly organized Numismatic and Antiquarian Service Corporation of America (NASCA) as director of research. His work on NASCA's April 1981 Kessler-Spangenberger Collection catalog was a landmark, according to Alexander.

Carlson is survived by his wife, Pat; and daughters, Valerie, Melinda and Larissa.

Joseph Missey (March 2002)

Joseph Missey of Cadet MO passed away 3/11/02 from cancer. Joe was a tough old guy who refused to go softly into that dark night. He was ASA for 20 years and served at the 3rd Field Station Okinawa and in Vietnam. Joe was an 058. He was also a guard in the MO prison system. He later became a cross country truck driver with his son Chris Missey.

LTC (Ret) Jefferson M. Davis (March 2002)

Lieutenant Colonel Jefferson M. Davis, United States Army, Retired, died at age 73 at his home in Summerton, South Carolina, on Thursday, March 7, 2002. He was born in Summerton, South Carolina on May 11, 1928, the son of the late Washington B. and Ida Morrison Davis.

LTC Davis graduated from the Citadel in 1950. He entered the United States Army after graduation and thereafter rose to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. His military career spanned twenty-two years of distinguished service as a commissioned officer in the Army and Army Security Agency, and included a combat tour during the Korean Conflict.

After retiring from the Army, Lieutenant Colonel Davis returned home to Summerton and established the Davis Insurance Agency. In addition to his insurance business, Lieutenant Colonel Davis also served the citizens of his community for twenty-two years as an active volunteer fireman and was a recognized leader in his community, Lieutenant Colonel Jefferson Davis served sixteen years as a magistrate and judge, working hard in that capacity to provide equal justice and fair treatment to the citizens of Manning and the surrounding area.

Lieutenant Colonel Davis is survived by Faith Gibson Davis, his wife of fifty years, his son, Michael F. Davis and daughter-in-law, Cynthia, his brother, H. Morrison Davis, and his sister, May Davis Tindal, along with numerous nieces and nephews.

Capt. (Ret) Robert Morrison Sr. (March 2002)

AUGUSTA, Ga. - Captain Robert Gordon Morrison Sr., 63, of Monte Carlo Drive, Augusta, entered into rest Friday, March 15, 2002, at the Veterans Hospital. Cryptside services will be 2 p.m. Tuesday, March 19, 2002, at Westover Memorial Park Mausoleum with full military honors. Survivors are his wife, Keiko Kikuchi Morrison; two sons, Kenneth R. Morrison, and Robert G. Morrison Jr., all of Augusta; two brothers, Jerry Morrison of Tonto Basin, Arizona, Larry Morrison of Baton Rouge, La.; two sisters, Grace Parker of Long Beach, Calif., and Kathy Royal of Aqoura Hills, Calif.; one granddaughter, Makenzie Misako Morrison of Augusta. Mr. Morrison was a native of Fullerton, N.D., and was a member at the Lakewood Church of Houston, Texas. Mr. Morrison was in the first Special Forces Group in Okinawa Japan, Army Security Agency. In addition he served three tours in Vietnam during 1962, 1965 and 1968.

Paul Spivey (March 2002)

Dean Shideler reports that SMG (Ret) Paul Spivey passed away in his sleep on March 29, 2002. He took ill on the 16th and was taken to the hospital where they discovered that he had already had 3 heart attacks. Paul served in the ASA at Carlisle Barracks, Fort Devens, Asmara, Taiwan and Arlingotn Hall.

Thomas R. Louden (March 2002)

Thomas R. Louden, 72, Brainerd, formerly of Minneapolis, died Tuesday, March 19, 2002. Tom was a vetern of the 351st Comms Recon Company. Two of his friends from the 351st CRC, Pat Whalen and Jerry Fahney, were with him on the day of his death.

Survivors include a brother, Joe.

His parents, Joe and Devota, and a brother, Gorden, died earlier.

Pat Hubern Johnson (March 2002)

SFC (Ret) Pat Hubern Johnson, age 66, of Ward Arkansas passed away March 13, 2002 of a heart attack. Pat was born on January 19, 1936 and served 22 years in the Army. His ASA assignments included Sinop (61-62), Augsburg (71-72) and Shemya (72-73). Hi is survived by his wife of 42 years, Amelia Rosas Johnson, a daughter Dana Johnson of San Antonio, a son Pat Johnson II and his wife Sherry, and three grand children.

Spencer H. Whitney (May 2002)

Spencer H. Whitney, 59, of Deerfield Drive, died May 20, 2002 at his home. He was born August 16, 1942 in Melrose, Mass. the son of Clifton and Mary Elizabeth (Mosher) Whitney.

Spence graduated from Montpelier High School in the Class of 1961 and served as Class President. He received a B.A. in Industrial Arts from Keene State College in 1972 and a M.A. in Occupational Education from UVM in 1974. He later completed his education at U Conn in 1976 receiving a Certificate of Advanced Graduate Study in Vocational Administration.

Spence served in the US Army from October 31, 1961 to his discharge from service on September 11, 1964, he spent most of his tour with the Army Security Agency in Germany. He was a member of the Waterbury American Legion.

On March 28, 1967, he married the former Patricia Nicholson in Burlington, VT.

Spence worked as a teacher of industrial arts for Essex Jct. High School, Great Barrington (Mass.) Middle School, Green Mountain Union High School in Chester, VT and Spaulding High School, He later served as administrator for Minuteman Regional Voc-Tech School in Lexington, Mass. He was the Voc-Tec director and buildings trade instructor at Barre Voc-Tec Center.

He was a member of Northfield Beagle Club, Phi Delta Kappa, Montpelier Elks, Past President of the Montpelier Kiwanis Club, Mount Zion Commandery #9 Knights Templar, Olive Branch Lodge # 64 F& AM, Chester, VT, Barre Council # 22 R&SM, Barre, VT, King Solomon Chapter #7 R.A.M. of Montpelier. He was also a hunter safety instructor for the Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department.

He is survived by his wife- Patricia of Montpelier; daughter, Lynnette of Montpelier; and son- Gavin of East Montpelier.

Dale M. Kunkle (May 2002)

Dale M. Kunkle passed away Thursday, May 16 2002 at his home. He was 58 years old. Dale was born August 26, 1943, in Wahpeton, N.D., the third child of Sylvester (Bud) and Marie (Eisenbeiss) Kunkle. When Dale was a small child he and his family moved to Rosendale, Wisconsin. Dale enlisted in the Army after earning an associates degree in Residential Design at North Central Technical School in 1964. He was a member of the Army Security Agency. Dale served at Fort Devens, Thailand (during the Vietnam War), Florida and completed his enlistment at the NSA Headquarters.

Dale married Marsyl Ferch in 1967 then moved back to Rosendale after his military discharge.

Meredith Knox Gardner (August 2002)

Submitted by Bart Jones

Meredith Knox Gardner, 89, an Army Signal Intelligence Service code breaker whose work on encrypted KGB messages to and from Moscow during and after World War II led to the exposure of Soviet agents who spied on the U.S. atomic bomb project, died Aug. 9 at the ManorCare facility in Chevy Chase. He had Alzheimer's disease.

Mr. Gardner's work included the discovery of lists of code names in telegrams sent by the Soviet consulate in New York to Moscow from 1943 to 1945, and it led directly to the unmaskings of Klaus Fuchs, the German-born scientist convicted of spying for the Soviets; Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, who in 1953 were executed for espionage; and British intelligence officer Kim Philby, who after defecting to Moscow in 1963 said he had been a Soviet spy for two decades.

Within the intelligence community, Mr. Gardner was said to have been a living legend, and his work in penetrating Soviet codes is widely considered one of the great U.S. counterintelligence coups of the last half-century. But he remained unknown to the public for more than 50 years until 1996, when he emerged from anonymity to tell his story at a conference on the decrypting operation, which had its own code name, "Venona." At that conference, which was sponsored by the National Security Agency, the CIA and the Center for Democracy -- a Washington think tank -- Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D-N.Y.) introduced Mr. Gardner as an unsung hero of the Cold War. Describing his discovery of code names in the New York to Moscow Soviet cables during and after the war, Mr. Gardner told the Venona conference: "That smelled of espionage. Otherwise, why would you go to the trouble of using something other than someone's real name?" In December 1946, his suspicions were all but confirmed when he decrypted a New York to Moscow cable sent two years earlier containing the code names of several leading scientists working on the Manhattan Project, the U.S. effort to build an atomic bomb.

Mr. Gardner, a gifted linguist who was fluent in German, Old High German, Middle High German, Sanskrit, Latin, Greek, Lithuanian, Slavonic, Spanish, French, Italian, Russian and Japanese, came to Washington early in World War II to work as a civilian for the Army Signal Intelligence Service, a predecessor of the NSA.

A native of Okolona, Miss., he graduated from the University of Texas and received a master's degree in languages from the University of Wisconsin. Before World War II, he was a language teacher at the Universities of Akron, Texas and Wisconsin.

He spent his early years with the Army agency working on telegraphic messages involving Germany and Japan, especially communications between Japanese military attaches in Berlin and other enemy capitals and the Japanese general staff in Tokyo.

When the war ended, Mr. Gardner was reassigned to examine telegraphic traffic involving the Soviet Union, the wartime ally of the United States and Great Britain. With the end of hostilities against Germany and Japan, Soviet matters were now a top priority, and by 1946 from 500 to 600 people were assigned to decryption efforts on more than 35,000 pages of coded Soviet cables.

As senior linguist, it was Mr. Gardner's job to re-create a Russian code book and translate Russian messages into English. He told The Washington Post's Michael Dobbs in 1996 that he attributed his success to logic, his linguistic skills and "a sort of magpie attitude to facts, the habit of storing things away that did not seem to have any connection at all." A few months after decoding the message containing the names of scientists working on the atomic bomb, he came upon a reference to an agent with the code name of "Liberal" who had a 29-year-old wife named Ethel. They turned out to be Julius and Ethel Rosenberg.

As more Venona cables were decrypted, it became apparent that Moscow had recruited dozens of agents at various levels of government, and the FBI was directed to follow up leads. Robert Lamphere was the FBI agent named liaison officer with Venona, and with Mr. Gardner he developed a symbiotic relationship in which Mr. Gardner gave Lamphere lists of agents named in the Venona cables while Lamphere gave Mr. Gardner information that might be helpful in further decryption.

This led to a massive manhunt for spies in the late 1940s and early 1950s and is said to have contributed to the Communist-baiting excesses of Sen. Joseph McCarthy (R-Wis.). Among the other Soviet agents mentioned in the Venona documents were David Greenglass, the younger brother of Ethel Rosenberg who received a 15-year prison sentence for passing along information about the atomic bomb; and Theodore Alvin Hall, who was recruited as a 19-year-old Harvard student to work on the bomb and was then said to have passed along the vital secrets of this work to the Soviets. Hall was never formally charged. He died in Cambridge, England, in 1999. Information from the Venona operation also led to the exposure of Kim Philby's British comrades in espionage, Guy Burgess, Donald Maclean and Anthony Blunt.

From at least two sources, the Soviets learned that their U.S. espionage net had been discovered. One was Philby, the British intelligence officer and double agent. He was posted in Washington in 1949 and had a habit of dropping in on Mr. Gardner's Venona operation.

The other was Bill Weisband, a Russian emigre who was hired as a linguistic adviser for Venona. Mr. Gardner occasionally consulted him on points of Russian grammar. At the Venona conference, the National Security Agency declassified tapes of the confession of a Los Angeles aircraft worker who identified Weisband as his KGB handler. Weisband was fired from Venona and later served a one-year prison sentence for contempt of court for refusing to testify about Communist connections. He died in 1967. U.S. counterintelligence officials said they are convinced he was a Soviet spy.

In retirement, Mr. Gardner lived quietly in a modest condominium on Connecticut Avenue in Washington, where he traced his Scottish genealogy and did the daily crossword puzzle in the Times of London, which is reputed to be the most difficult in the world.

Survivors include his wife of 57 years, Blanche, of Washington; two children, Arthur H. Gardner of Milwaukee and Ann Martin of Annapolis; and 11 grandchildren.

Frank J. Ross (September 2002)

Submitted by Pat Testa

Frank J. Ross, 72 of Boynton Beach, Fl. passed away on September 4, 2002. He served in the U.S. Naval reserve and the U.S. Army during the Korean Conflict with the Army Security Agency.

Howard Gravitt (September 2002)

Submitted by Jim Hunter

Served at Vent Hill in WWII

Roy Turcotte (November 2002)

Submitted by Steve Zawacki

Roy C. Turcotte, age 57, a resident of Kingsville, Texas, passed away Saturday, November 9, 2002. Born September 5, 1945 in Kingsville to Andrew J. Turcotte and Denease Nix Turcotte, Mr. Turcotte was a self-employed attorney graduating from Texas A&I - Kingsville and St. Mary's Law School in San Antonio. He served several years as Kenedy County Attorney. Mr. Turcotte was a former member of the Kingsville Rotary Club and a member of the Kingsville Church of Christ, the National 4th Infantry (Ivy) Division Association and the Veterans of Foreign Wars. He was a U.S. Army veteran of the Vietnam Era. Roy was preceded in death by his father, Andy Turcotte; and sister, Ruanne Turcotte McKinney-Tidwell. He is survived by his wife, Zelda Turcotte of Kingsville; daughter, Stephanie (David) Becho of Kingsville; stepson, Michael Isaac Ruiz of Alice, Texas; mother, Denease Turcotte of Kingsville; grandson, Jacob Becho of Kingsville; and three nieces. Funeral service were held at 11:00 a.m. Tuesday, November 12, 2002 at the Turcotte-Piper Mortuary Chapel with Evangelist Tim Bennett officiating. Burial with military honors provided by the Veterans of Kleberg County Military Funeral Detail�followed in Kingsville at Chamberlain Cemetery. Memorials may be made to the Disabled American Veterans - Chapter 203, P.O. Box 650, Kingsville, Texas 78364, the American Cancer Society, 4101 South Alameda St., Corpus Christi, Texas 78411-1528 or to a charity of one's choice.