- Date Of Birth: April 15, 1930
- Date Of Death: June 3, 2019
- State: Mississippi
George Estock Jr., 89, died Monday, June 3, 2019 at Baptist Memorial Hospital – North Mississippi in Oxford, MS..M.. Ron Jenkins officiating…M. until 8:00 P.M. at the church.. George Estock Jr. was born in Birmingham, Alabama on April 15, 1930. He entered the United States Navy in 1948, married the love of his life Frances Simpson in 1949, and served honorably for 23 years, attaining the rank of Lieutenant Commander before retiring in June of 1971. He began service as an Aviation Radio Technician and crewman, flying on dirigibles based out of Lakehurst New Jersey. His weekends were often filled with hitchhiking trips from New Jersey to Alabama to see his new bride, while his weekdays were filled with anti-submarine patrols off the east coast. After 2 years at Lakehurst, he was promoted to Petty Officer Second Class and received orders to Elizabeth City, North Carolina, where he continued to fly as a crewmember and electronics operator. His next duty rotation took him to Pensacola Florida where he served as the Electronics Shop Supervisor, directing repair actions for inoperative and malfunctioning electronics in SNJ trainer aircraft. He then moved back to New Jersey, serving as an Aviation Electronics Technician First Class on a 365 foot dirigible patrolling the east coast for Russian bombers. It was during this tour, George was promoted to Chief Petty Officer, and subsequently reassigned to Advanced Electronics School in Memphis Tennessee, and while at that school was selected to attend Officer Candidate School. George’s career as an officer began with his assignment to the USS Fechteler, a radio picket destroyer based in Long Beach, California. He served as a Combat Information Center Officer, whose area of operations was the Western Pacific. After seven months in the Pacific, visiting Midway, the Philippines, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Okinawa, he returned home, was promoted to Lieutenant Junior Grade and received orders to the USS King, where he ultimately was promoted again and served as Operations Officer. Three years later George was ordered to the Navy Electronics Laboratory in San Diego, California, and while there was promoted and selected to command his own ship, a 215-foot long deep-sea diving and salvage ship with a crew of 112 men. With a move now to Hawaii behind him, George left his family for Vietnam, where he assumed command of his ship and ultimately returned to Pearl Harbor while serving 2 years as commander. After a short reprieve though, George was once again tasked to return to Vietnam.. With a second year in Vietnam under his belt, he returned to the states, where he finished his career as the first Project Officer of the Navy’s AEGIS system. This system allowed early detection, analysis, and countermeasure response to hostile aircraft and ships, with full integration capability between friendly assets. It is now the standard among the US Naval Fleet. And with that great achievement, serving during the Berlin Airlift and the Korean War, amassing over 5000 flight hours, and with 2 tours in Vietnam, George retired with 23 years of honorable service. Settling into civilian life, he worked as Scheduling Supervisor at Georgia Pacific in Oxford Mississippi for 20 years, where he retired in 1991.. He was an awesome father to four children, a loving husband, and an example for others to follow.. Always the one who knew just about everything about anything, his wisdom was called upon by many. George will be missed. But his legacy lives on. He was preceded in death by his parents, George and Althea McQueen Estock; wife, Frances Simpson Estock; son, Victor Warren Estock and daughter-in-law, Cecelia Young is survived by his daughter, Debra Shoemaker and her husband, Medford, of Oxford, MS; sons, Mike Estock of Oxford, MS and Steven Anthony “Tony” Estock and his wife, Karmyn, of Allons, TN; sister Ann Bowden of Tallahassee, FL; twelve grandchildren and twenty great grandchildren.. Estock’s memory may be made to The Gideon Memorial Bible Chairman, PO Box 140800, Nashville, TN 37214. In honor of Mr…234.7971 or visit .
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