But his name - along with the names of 21 others lost in World War II - is perpetually engraved in bronze on a monument in his hometown.
"We the people of Florence Township," it says, "dedicate this tablet as visible evidence of our lasting and eternal gratitude for these men who made the supreme sacrifice."
As the nation prepares to commemorate the 70th anniversary of Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, memorials such as this stand across America in mute remembrance of the 291,557 U.S. service members killed in battle in World War II.
In the First Ward of Marcus Hook, 40 miles down river from Florence, a bronze shield keeps alive the names of 15 men, including James Raoul, a ship's cook who went to sea three months after Pearl Harbor and never came back.
In Northeast Philadelphia, a memorial recalls 27 Burholme men from World War II, among them Thomas E. Jardel, whose Navy destroyer was torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine.
In each town, each neighborhood, there is usually someone who tends the markers. In Burholme, it's Boy Scout Troop 160.
"Before every Memorial Day, we go out there and make sure the place is cleaned up," scoutmaster Walt MacBride said. "Pick up trash. Cut the lawn. Trim the bushes. Plant flowers."
He said he tells his scouts to read the names, to really look at them.
"I think, wow - all those guys killed, and just from the Burholme community. We need to remember these people and what they did for us."
The Florence Township memorial stands at West Front and Broad Streets, across from the river park.
Like many war monuments, it was built in the 1920s to memorialize the dead from the First World War - a war so terrible, people said at the time, it would end all wars.
When an even bigger conflict came a generation later, more names had to be put on memorials. Many would later take on names from Korea and Vietnam.
