1. Catherine Vance "Kate" (22 February 1914, Brooklyn, NY – 14 January 2015) [18][19]
2. Chester William "Chet", Jr. (1915–2002 [18][20] )
3. Anna Elizabeth "Nancy" (1919–2003 [21][22] )
4. Mary Manson (1931–2006 [23][24] )
Catherine Vance graduated from the
University of California, Berkeley, in 1934, [25] became a music librarian with the Washington D.C. Public Library, [26] and married U.S. Navy Commander James Thomas Lay (1909–2001 [27] ), from St. Clair, Missouri, in Chester and Catherine's suite at the Fairfax Hotel in Washington, D.C., on March 9, 1945. [28] She had met Lay in the summer of 1934 while visiting her parents in Southeast Asia. [25]
Chester Nimitz, Jr. , graduated from the
U.S. Naval Academy in 1936 and served as a submariner in the Navy until his retirement in 1957, reaching the (post retirement) rank of rear admiral; he served as chairman of PerkinElmer from 1969–1980.
Anna Elizabeth ("Nancy") Nimitz was an expert on the Soviet economy at the
RAND Corporation from 1952 until her retirement in the 1980s.
Sister Mary Aquinas (Nimitz) became a sister in the Order of Preachers (Dominicans), working at the Dominican University of California . She taught biology for 16 years, and was academic dean for 11 years, acting president for one year, and vice president for institutional research for 13 years before becoming the university's emergency preparedness coordinator. She held this job until her death, due to cancer, on February 27, 2006.
Death
In late 1965, Nimitz suffered a stroke, complicated by pneumonia . In January 1966, he left the U.S. Naval Hospital (Oak Knoll) in Oakland to return home to his naval quarters. He died at home at age 80 on the evening of February 20 at Quarters One on Yerba Buena Island in
San Francisco Bay .[29] His funeral on February 24 was at the chapel of adjacent
Naval Station Treasure Island and Nimitz was buried with full military honors at
Golden Gate National Cemetery in San Bruno . [30][31][32][33][34] He lies alongside his wife and his long-term friends Admiral Raymond A. Spruance, Admiral Richmond K. Turner , and Admiral
Charles A. Lockwood and their wives, an arrangement made by all of them while living. [3
Nimitz married Catherine Vance Freeman (March 22, 1892 – February 1, 1979) on April 9, 1913, in Wollaston, Massachusetts. [8] Nimitz and his wife had four children:
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