Electrician’s Mate Third Class Don Avery Blue, USNR
Don Blue is buried at Ft. Sam Houston National Cemetery in San Antonio. He is the only Worden casualty whose body was returned. The other thirteen were either lost or buried at sea.
Relatives of Don’s fellow Texan and Worden shipmate, Chief Machinist’s Mate George William Morby, visited the gravesite in 2009. They were Captain Russell F. Nunley of the Army Signal Corps, who is George’s grandson; Mrs. Jana E. Nunley, Russell’s wife; George’s great-grandson Jasper “Jack” D. Nunley, age 4; great-granddaughter Ella B. Nunley, age 2; Daphne S. Nunley, George’s daughter; and Norma W. Morby, George’s wife of 36 years.
