Commander Calvin F. Bonawitz - Reading, PA - Occupational/Hobby Grave Stones on Waymarking.com

From doing some research on the life of Commander Calvin Bonawitz, it appears that he had a life long love of the sea. His tombstone bears the initials of the US Naval Reserves, the US Coast Guard and the US Merchant Marines, right below a picture of a schooner. Several articles from around 1950, show that the Commander had the courage to stand up for what he believed in as he testified before the Senate Merchant Marine subcommittee about some questionable cargo that his Merchant Marine ship, the SS Flying Cloud, was carrying to Red China after the start of the Korean War. Per an article from the Daily Courier from McConnellsville, PA, "The young Reading, PA., engineer, now a naval reserve lieutenant (j.g.) was the first witness to testify in public on the incident which was revealed when Sen. Warren G. Magnuson, D., Wash., read the Senate a letter charging that oil, gasoline, tools and armor plate were being run through the Chinese Nationaist Blockade to Red China."

I could find no other information on the outcome of this hearing nor about the life of the commander but he lived a long life and ended up in the town of his birth, Reading, PA.

Is Gravestone Showing Occupation or Hobby?: Occupation What is depicted occupation or hobby?: Ship Date of birth: 06/13/1921 Date of death: 02/13/2010 Access hours and days: Dawn to dusk

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