Charles W. Kimball

Charles Willis Kimball was born September 24, 1886, Woodman's Mills, New Hampshire. He was the son of Willis and Isabel (Chick) Kimball. He married Catherine Lucey, and had two daughters, Isabel and Gloria. He lived at 53 Stearns St., Malden, and worked as a railway fireman.
Kimball first enlisted in October, 1901; again in August, 1912, and for a final time in Boston, Mass., June, 1916. He served aboard the "Smith;" he was transferred June 5, 1917, to the "Ozark.; " in May 1918, he was assigned to the "Santa Rosalia." He died October 9, 1918, at the Naval Hospital in Norfolk, Virginia, of pneumonia. He was a machinist's mate, first class, in the United States Navy.