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MM2(SS) Terry 'Turk' Criswell • 1956 – 2011

TERRY CRISWELL, 54, Dacula, GA, died 01-03-2011.

Arrangements: Gendron Funeral & Cremation Services Inc..

Published in The News-Press on January 5, 2011

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Dottie Selander called and told Terry Fessner that MM2 Terry 'Turk' Criswell passed away from stomach cancer in early January this year (2011).   He was onboard the Bates in A-Gang from 1975-1981.

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Turk was at first glance the consummate A-Ganger...strong, bold, assertive...maybe even brash. Early on I regarded him as someone I didn't want to cross, mainly due to the size of his biceps. Toward the end of my career aboard BATES, however, I got to see a different side of the man when he roomed with my friend Frank Allen in an apartment in Bremerton. He was quiet and contemplative. It jolted me the first time I saw him with a cup of tea, which soon became a familiar sight. So, in all, he was an enigma to me, but definitely a friend...I still see him smiling and hear his voice. One of many characters aboard the Billy B, but an indelible one. Though I haven't seen him in 30 years, I miss him more now knowing he is no longer with us.
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Our shipmate has passed on before us.

Whether by enemy action, the remorseless sea, or the ravages of time and age,
we must accept that God has called you to where we cannot yet follow.

We commend your body to the deep, and your soul to God Almighty.

May God grant you fair winds and following seas.

 

Godspeed, shipmate.

 

We will miss you...

 

 

 

"All mankind is of one author, and is one volume; when one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language; and every chapter must be so translated. God employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice; but God's hand is in every translation, and his hand shall bind up all our scattered leaves again for that library where every book shall lie open to one another...

"No man is an island, entire of itself, every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main.

"Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee."

John Donne

Meditation XVII
Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions
Nunc lento sonitu dicunt, morieris.
Now this bell tolling softly for another, says to me, Thou must die.
1572 - 1631

 

 

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