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Chester W. Nimitz Jr. Decorated Navy officer
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Chester W. Nimitz Jr.
Decorated Navy officer
Tuesday, January 8, 2002
Navy Rear Adm. Chester W. Nimitz Jr., a highly decorated World War
II submarine officer who was the son of the fleet admiral who helped
oversee the Allied victory in that war, died last Wednesday with his
wife at a retirement residence in Needham, Mass. He was 86.
Nimitz and his wife, Joan Labern Nimitz, 89, took their own lives,
family members said.
After leaving the Navy, Nimitz made a second career in the high-
tech field, becoming chief executive of Perkin-Elmer Corp. before
retiring in 1980.
Nimitz was the only son of ...
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