Roark, Donald B.
Navy Aviation electrian’s mate 2

Donald B. Roark, age 22, from Ellis County Waxahachie, Texas .

Service era: Vietnam

Date of death: Wednesday, January 30, 1963
Death details: He was aboard a new type of Navy plane, a submarine hunter, that was on a lengthy practice mission when it crashed into the Atlantic about 230 miles southeast of New York.

Source: Memorial marker, Minneapolis Star Tribune (1963) San Angelo Weekly Standard (1963)