Klier, Billy Max
Navy Engineman 1

Billy Max Klier, age 37, from Morton County Elkhart, Kansas .

Spouse: Mary C. Klier
Children: Charles, 3

Service era: Vietnam

Date of death: Wednesday, April 10, 1963
Death details: Killed aboard the atomic submarine Thresher when the ship went missing 220 miles East of Cape Cod, Massachusetts

Source: ussthresher.com, Associated Press (1963), oneternalpatrol.com, Independent (1963)