Excerpts from obituary published in San Diego Union-Tribune on August 4, 1982:

Patrick Thomas Dooley was born on March 5, 1902, in Boston, Massachusetts.  He moved to San Diego, California, in 1919 where he joined the Navy.  He was discharged after serving eight years and returned to San Diego where he joined the office of the San Diego County District Attorney as a Junior Clerk.  He remained with this office for the next 40 years, retiring in 1967 as Principal Clerk.  During this employment he was also active in the Naval Reserve, was recalled to active duty during World War II and the Korean War, and served for several years as the senior chief petty officer in the District Intelligence Office, Eleventh Naval District.  In 1933 Dooley applied to the San Diego County Assessor for a veteran’s property tax exemption which was initially denied on the basis that World War I ended November 11, 1918, before Dooley joined the Navy.  Dooley filed suit in Superior Court and won on the grounds that a joint resolution of the U.S. Congress officially ended the war on July 12, 1921.  Dooley died in San Diego on August 2, 1982, and has been buried at Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery in San Diego where his gravestone carries the inscription:  YNC – US NAVY – WORLD WAR I & II - KOREA.

Submitted by CDR Roy A. Mosteller, USNR (Ret) – I had the pleasure of service with Chief Dooley who I found to be a loyal and outstanding Navy sailor in every way.