Only a few months later, Chief Carpenter’s Mate (CCM) Ted McKinley Furr died aboard USS Oklahoma when Japan launched an attack on Pearl Harbor. Furr was 39. Now, after more than 80 years ...

Only 17, he had grown up in San Jose and quit school after eighth grade ... country’s last survivors of the infamous attack on Pearl Harbor, Fernandez died Wednesday in Lodi, Calif.

He enlisted in the Navy after he turned 18 ... With Conter’s death, there are now 19 survivors of the Pearl Harbor attack still living, according to Kathleen Farley, the California state ...

In January, Fernandez was hospitalized after a ... Fernandez enlisted in the U.S. Navy in 1941 and was a seaman first class assigned to the USS Curtiss AV-4 at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.