Served aboard USS Arizona. Son of Grace Ellen Traynor of Grand Junction. Enlisted on September 9, 1938. Transferred to USS Arizona on December 31, 1938. Tranferred to USS Colorado for temporary duty in AA Battery Gunnery School on June 16, 1940. Returned to USS Arizona on July 29, 1940 and promoted to Coxswain. Listed upon Courts of the Missing. Awarded Purple Heart.