Charles L Mcguire

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Ottawa, Kansas, US

United States Navy

USS America

Ottawa, US, 11/20/2001

Charles Lee McGuire was born March 17, 1949, in Kansas City, Kan., the son of Charles and Ruby McGuire. He graduated from Washington High School in 1967. He moved to Ottawa in 2000.

Mr. McGuire died Nov. 20, 2001.

Mr. McGuire had owned and operated a business in Olathe. He worked for animal control at the Olathe Police Department from 1981 until he retired in 1994. He was a U.S. Navy veteran and had worked on the flight deck of the USS America during the Vietnam War. He was a life member of Veterans of Foreign Wars Post No. 869 and a former member of the Teamsters union.

He married Candy Brown in 2000 in Hawaii. She survives of Ottawa. Other survivors include his parents, Kansas City, Kan.; and two sisters, Marsha Burgess and Nedra Thomas, both of Kansas City, Kan.

Charles’s portrait is also on Poster 5