Boone, Richard Dale
Coast Guard Machinery technician 2

Richard Dale Boone, age 23, from Texas City, Texas, Galveston county.

Parents: Drannon and Joan Boone
Spouse: Teresa Boone
Children: Andrea and Terry Boone

Service era: Cold War

Date of death: Monday, January 28, 1980
Death details: Among the 23 who died when the Coast Guard Cutter Blackthorn collided with a tanker near the Sunshine Skyway Bridge in Tampa Bay in Florida.

Source: United State Coast Guard, Tampa Bay Times (1980), Modesto Bee (1980)