Obituary: Nesbitt III
LCDR James Olver Nesbitt III 1921 - 2021 AUBURN - James Olver Nesbitt of Greene died May 15, 2021. He .
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Nesbitt III
LCDR James Olver Nesbitt III 1921 – 2021 AUBURN – James Olver Nesbitt of Greene died May 15, 2021. He was born July 5, 1921 in Bethlehem, Pa. to James O Nesbitt Jr b1889 and Dorothy Ryan Nesbitt, born Dora Mae Ryan, 1895. James O. grew up in the Pittsburg, Pa. area, graduating from Langley High in Sheraden, Pa. in 1937. He joined the Navy Air Force in 1943 as the FAA was going to pull his license to fly for doing loop-de-loops around the North bridge in Pittsburgh. On April 23, 1943 he married his high school classmate Phyllis Ruth Steele. They had five sons together; James Olver IV, Richard Steele, Alexander, Robert Stanley and Thomas Ryan. Phyllis Steele died suddenly in 1986 of an aneurism. Their second son Richard Steele died at sea in 1975 after returning from Vietnam, a paraplegic in 1970. James O’s naval career of 23 years
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