About
Eugene Richard Fay, the son of Earl and Mary (Gillespie) Fay, was born on June 30, 1922, in Schenectady, New York. He was a student at Nott Terrace High School.
Eugene enlisted in the United States Merchant Marine and held the rank of Merchant Seaman. When his ship was torpedoed on February 2, 1943, he was lost at sea. He is remembered at the Gerald B.H. Solomon Saratoga National Cemetery, Saratoga, New York.
Sources: The Schenectady Gazette, Find A Grave, Ancestry
Light Lie The Sea Upon Thee
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.
For the Fallen
Laurence Binyon