- Date Of Birth: June 3, 1927
- Date Of Death: July 24, 2014
- State: Colorado
Lawrence Charles “Larry” Warren, 87, passed away July 24, 2014 in Canon City, CO. He was born June 3, 1927, in rural Fremont, Michigan, to Clarence and Pauline (Charles) Warren. His father died three weeks before his birth, of Bright’s Disease, and his mother moved back to her parents’ home, where Larry grew up with 11 aunts and uncles. He described himself as “An Only Child in a Large Family”. He attended school in rural Fremont as well as Lansing, where his mother had taken a position as secretary to the Michigan Secretary of Agriculture. He was sworn into the Navy on May 31, 1945, and graduated from Fremont High School the same day. Selected for Flight Training, he completed two years of college, then Flight training and received his Navy Wings at Pensacola, Florida in December 1947. He served nearly 14 years in Naval Aviation and was selected for Lieutenant Commander before resigning in 1959 due to declining eyesight, which limited his flying. His career was marked by being an early jet pilot, flying off numerous aircraft carriers, staging a solo jet airshow before 100,000 people at the first Armed Forces Day in 1950, penetrating hurricanes from the top in pioneering photojet reconnaissance missions, and being the only Aviator to qualify at Officer-of-the-Deck Underway on the USS Coral Sea in 1954. He made three cruises to the Mediterranean during the “Cold War” period. He was united in marriage to Elizabeth Jane Moore in Simsbury, Connecticut on October 13, 1951.
