Lou Conter, the last survivor of the USS Arizona, died Monday morning at his home in Grass Valley, Calif., at the age of 102.“Both my brothers and I were here all night with him and this morning when he passed peacefully,” his daughter Louann Daley said Monday.
Daley said that the family had been preparing — Conter had been experiencing heart problems and other ailments that sent him to the hospital on February 16, spending 10 days there before returning home and
going into hospice care.
“We’ve been able to spend a month and a half with him at home, on hospice,” Daley told the Honolulu Star-Advertiser. “We’re just blessed that it was peaceful, he wasn’t in any pain. We were expecting it. But of course, when reality set in this morning, it was very, very hard.”
“Lou Conter epitomized what it meant to be a member of the Greatest Generation, Americans whose collective courage, accomplishments and sacrifices saved our country from tyranny,” said Aileen Utterdyke, president and CEO of Pacific Historic Parks, an organization dedicated to preserving historical military sites in the Pacific. “He had an exemplary career in the Navy and was steadfast in imploring the schools, parents and everyday Americans to always remember Pearl Harbor.”
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