Joseph M Walton
Kentucky Post, Tuesday, 29 April 1952, page 1
The Navy has called off the search for 176 missing servicemen, who were crew members of the destroyer Hobson, sunk Saturday night in a collision with the aircraft carrier Wasp in Atlantic maneuvers. Although the men were still listed officially as missing, Adm. Lynde d McCormick, commander in chief of the Atlantic fleet, said the search had been called off because “there was no possibility of any further survivors of the Hobson.”
Missing from northern Kentucky; Joseph M Walton, 22, son of Mr. and Mrs. Evan P Walton, 412 Hazen avenue, Bellevue. The Bellevue youth, machinist’s mate third class, had been transferred to the Hobson a month ago. He enlisted in the Navy four years ago after graduating from Bellevue High School.
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Kentucky Post, Thursday, 22 May 1952, page 18
Memorial Services for Joseph M Walton of Bellevue, who was lost at sea in the sinking of the destroyer Hobson last month, will be held at 2 pm Saturday at Trinity Lutheran Church, Bellevue. The destroyer sank with a loss of 176 lives when it collided with the aircraft carrier Wasp April 26 in the Atlantic Ocean. Mr. Walton, a machinist’s mate, had been in the Navy 4 ½ years.
He lived at 412 Hazen street, Bellevue, and formerly attended Bellevue High School. He leaves his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Evan Walton; five brothers, Evan, Southgate; John, Dayton; Pvt. Richard, US Army; Robert and Henry, Bellevue, and two sisters, Mrs. Dorothy Odell, Portsmouth O. and Mrs. Ruth Hubbard, Bellevue.