About
World War II (1939-1945)
Stanley George Parkinson was born in Cheyenne, Wyoming, on May 21, 1905. By the age of five, he was living with his family in California. He lived in the city of Schenectady following his marriage, and his wife, Virginia, had spent the majority of her life there.
Stanley enlisted in the United States Navy in 1923. He was a boatswain mate first class and was assigned to the USS Jacob Jones (DD130) in 1942. On February 28, 1942, Stanley went missing when the submarine U-578 torpedoed the USS Jacob Jones off Cape May, New Jersey; 138 crew members died that day. He is remembered at the Tablets of the Missing, East Coast Memorial in Manhattan, New York and St. Mary's Cemetery in Schenectady, New York.
Sources: The Schenectady Gazette, Find A Grave, Ancestry