Last survivor of USS Arizona, dead at 102, is recalled for commitment to country, strong faith
Posted on April 22, 2024, by Loretto Community
Originally posted by the Detroit Catholic, April 19, 2024
By any measure, Louis Anthony “Lou” Conter, a Catholic hero of World War II who died April 1 at his home in Grass Valley, California, at age 102, led a celebrated life.
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As a quartermaster on the battleship USS Arizona in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, Conter was one of only 335 crewmen and officers aboard to survive the assault by Japanese fighter pilots, bombers and torpedo planes that sank it on Dec. 7, 1941, launching the United States into World War II.
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He sometimes credited his survival that day to the prayers of his older sister Mary Margaret, who, as Sr. Mary Esther, joined the Sisters of Loretto in 1940 and made her final vows in 1946.
Read the entire remembrance here.
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