Ronie Mooney, ENCS, USN

Dad's Navy Days

2006-07-15T22:05:00.000-07:00

Navy Days

Gertrude

2006-07-15T21:57:00.000-07:00

Mother, Gertrude

Family Photograph

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Ronie's Family, Rosemond (Father), Gertrude (Mother) and sister Bobbie

Parents, Rosemond and Gertrude

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Ronie's Parents, Rosemond and Gertrude

Ronie's Mother-In-Law

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Mother-In-Law, Gertrude

Ronie's Grandparents

2006-07-15T21:27:00.000-07:00

Father and Mother of Rosemond Mooney... Marsden and Grandmary (Ronie Mooney's Grandparents)

San Diego, Navy

2006-07-15T21:23:00.000-07:00

San Diego, California, Dad in the Navy with Mom and Kids, Linda, David and Karen

Dad on his bike

2006-07-15T21:20:00.000-07:00

Ronie Mooney on a bike when he was a child

Ronie Mooney when he was a baby

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Ronie Mooney as a Baby - taken around 1932 or 1933.

Civil War Veteran

2006-07-15T21:01:00.000-07:00

Alexander Simmons - Grandfather of Rosemond Mooney
Civil War Veteran (Ronie Mooney's Great-Grandfather)

Alexander Simmons was born November 6, 1836 and died in 1923.
He was the husband on Drusilla Arnold-Simmons, and the father of Mary, Francis "Fanny", Dallas, Willard and Oliver Simmons.

"It is a Confederate Cross of HONOR pinned on his left lapel. His name should have been engraved on the cross. Alexander Simmons, 18th regiment co. A formed at camp Wyatt at Carolina Beach, muster men from Columbus, Roberson, Richmond, Bladen and New Hanover counties. They served well all except for the 18th North carolina troops are the ones that opened fire and killed General Stonewall Jackson.
The 18th NC was in Lanes's Brigade, well Branche's brigade at the battle of Sharpsburg (antietam) september 17 1862, that included my greatgreatgrandfather in the 7th NC, so your paw paw and mine were in the same brigade for sure, it was Lanes brigade thatopened fire on General Stonewall Jackson at Chancellorsville VA on May 2nd 1863. He died at guiney station on the 10th.

The United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC) are also the one who gave out the medal your great grandfather has on in that photograph!"

Brother in arms

2006-07-15T12:51:00.000-07:00

From: Ken
Sent: Monday, May 10, 2004 10:39 PM
Subject: My Condolences

Armed Forces/Veterans Ring

"Dago Te',
Please accept my condolences on the loss of your father.
As a Veteran, I salute him as a Brother in arms, as an American I Thank him for what he has given.
God Bless you and may he hold you strong in this time and all to come,
Ken Whitewolf"

Support Our Veterans

2006-07-15T12:50:00.000-07:00

From: Support Our Veterans
To: ronie-mooney-encs.us
Sent: Sunday, May 16, 2004 10:19 PM
Subject: Proud to Support Our Veterans

Sorry about your loss.

We are sure your Dad is very proud of the online tribute you have created for him.

Old Ships turned into Museum

2006-07-15T12:46:00.000-07:00

From: Steve Locks
To: ronie-mooney-encs.us
Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 2004 3:27 PM
Subject: Petition to save the MSOs

Hi Sharon,

I've signed your petition - that would be a very interesting museum in addition to the personal value for those with loved ones who served on such ships. I also continue to admire your dedication even more than your prolific technical ability!

Cheers!

Steve
======================================

http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~slocks/

SHARON: Thanks! but it's not my idea. Retired Naval officers designed the petition and pushing for signatures. My Dad was a big supporter of their work, because he worked on the Minesweepers in the Navy. Dad had a lot of sentimental attachments to those wooden ships... and I have a lot of sentimental attachments to my Dad.

Here's a pic of one he worked on (it was scrapped for raw materials):

From: "Mike Warren"
To: ronie-mooney-encs.us
Sent: Monday, May 17, 2004 1:33 PM
Subject: Re: [Navy MineSweepers]

Hello,

Your Dad's old MSO and he contributed the picture.

http://www.navsource.org/archives/11/02461.htm

Mike Warren

Condolensces

2006-07-15T11:55:00.000-07:00

Tuesday, May 11, 2004

Hi,
First off let me tell you how sorry I am to hear of your Fathers passing. I met him at the USS Adroit Reunion a couple years ago and was so taken in by his kindness. He will be missed by all of us and he will not be forgotten.

I would be honored to link your site from my sites.

I also am a HAM Radio operator W8MSO and knew your Father from that hobby.

If there is anything that I can do please let me know.

Please pass my condolences to your Mother and the rest of the Family.

God Bless your Father and your Family, these are hard times, but never forget and let your children and grandchildren know about your Father.

You may not be aware but we are in the process of bringing back one of the last MSO's to Miami as a museum ship. When that day happens we would be honored to have you and your family to be there.

Regards,
Rick Szpyrka NMSOA President

Rick Szpyrka
http://www.mso426.com
USS Conflict MSO-426 1968-1970

http://www.NMSOA.org
NMSOA

http://www.petitiononline.com/samforce/petition.html
Save an MSO for a Floating Museum Ship
(Please sign this petition)
Bloomfield Hills, Michigan

From: ronie-mooney-encs.us
To: Rick Szpyrka
Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 2004 10:34 PM
Subject: Re: My Father, Ronie Mooney

Dear Mr. Szpyrka,

Thank you sincerely, for the kind words about my father. The entire family is feeling the loss of Dad, he was a very special man. We will all miss him.

...and my gratitude if you will link to Dad's site. In the coming days and weeks, perhaps my Mama will feel more up to finding photos, and contributing thoughts about Dad's life... and we'll add more pages to the web site. Dad lived a very interesting life, so there is a lot that can be said about him.

Again, thank you,

Sharon Mooney

From: Rick Szpyrka
To: ronie-mooney-encs.us
Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 2004 10:42 PM
Subject: Re: My Father, Ronie Mooney

Hi Sharon,

Please call me Rick, we are all Brothers and Sisters that served on MSO's and one special thing about MSO Sailors and the Officers, we always used our first names, we are different because of the small crews and being on wooden ships, that made us very close as a family.

I have another link for you and that is our TAPs site and I have your Dad listed and there is a poem that follows the names of those listed and it still brings a tear to my eyes everytime I read it. The site is at:
http://www.minesweep.org/tsd.htm

Plus I can give you our main web site URL which is all MSO related, this is at:
http://www.minesweep.org/chainlocker.htm

Regards,
Rick

http://www.mso426.com
USS Conflict MSO-426
1968-1970

http://www.NMSOA.org
NMSOA

http://www.petitiononline.com/samforce/petition.html
Save an MSO for a Floating Museum Ship
(Please sign this petition)
Bloomfield Hills, Michigan

MSO Sailors and the Officers

2006-07-14T20:35:00.000-07:00

Tuesday, May 11, 2004

Hi,
First off let me tell you how sorry I am to hear of your Fathers passing. I met him at the USS Adroit Reunion a couple years ago and was so taken in by his kindness. He will be missed by all of us and he will not be forgotten.

I would be honored to link your site from my sites.

I also am a HAM Radio operator W8MSO and knew your Father from that hobby.

If there is anything that I can do please let me know.

Please pass my condolences to your Mother and the rest of the Family.

God Bless your Father and your Family, these are hard times, but never forget and let your children and grandchildren know about your Father.

You may not be aware but we are in the process of bringing back one of the last MSO's to Miami as a museum ship. When that day happens we would be honored to have you and your family to be there.

Regards,
Rick Szpyrka NMSOA President

Rick Szpyrka

http://www.mso426.com/

http://www.NMSOA.org/

http://www.petitiononline.com/samforce/petition.html
Save an MSO for a Floating Museum Ship
(Please sign this petition)
Bloomfield Hills, Michigan

ronie-mooney-encs.us
To: Rick Szpyrka
Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 2004 10:34 PM
Subject: Re: My Father, Ronie Mooney

Dear Mr. Szpyrka,

Thank you sincerely, for the kind words about my father. The entire family is feeling the loss of Dad, he was a very special man. We will all miss him.

...and my gratitude if you will link to Dad's site. In the coming days and weeks, perhaps my Mama will feel more up to finding photos, and contributing thoughts about Dad's life... and we'll add more pages to the web site. Dad lived a very interesting life, so there is a lot that can be said about him.

Again, thank you,

Sharon Mooney

From: Rick Szpyrka
To: ronie-mooney-encs.us
Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 2004 10:42 PM
Subject: Re: My Father, Ronie Mooney

Hi Sharon,

Please call me Rick, we are all Brothers and Sisters that served on MSO's and one special thing about MSO Sailors and the Officers, we always used our first names, we are different because of the small crews and being on wooden ships, that made us very close as a family.

I have another link for you and that is our TAPs site and I have your Dad listed and there is a poem that follows the names of those listed and it still brings a tear to my eyes everytime I read it. The site is at:
http://www.minesweep.org/tsd.htm

Plus I can give you our main web site URL which is all MSO related, this is at:
http://www.minesweep.org/chainlocker.htm

Regards,
Rick

http://www.mso426.com/
USS Conflict MSO-426 1968-1970

http://www.NMSOA.org/
NMSOA

http://www.petitiononline.com/samforce/petition.html
Save an MSO for a Floating Museum Ship
(Please sign this petition)
Bloomfield Hills, Michigan

USS Jason

2006-07-14T20:30:00.000-07:00

From: SAILORBOY
To: ronie-mooney-encs.us
Sent: Thursday, May 27, 2004 1:57 AM
Subject: Ronie Mooney

Hello Sharon,

My name is Nick Napzok and I am a former sailor on the USS Jason like your father Ronie was. Please allow me to extend my sincere condolences on his passing which I just heard about. I was very saddened to hear about it.
Your dad was one of the biggest photo contributors to my Navy website at:
http://www.mrnapo.com and I will be forever grateful for all the fine Jason photos he sent my way. Many sailors have seen his photos and have enjoyed them like I have. Your father was a fine man and he will be missed greatly by all his shipmates. Again please accept my deepest sympathies and may God bless your dad's soul.

Fair winds and following seas to you and yours.

Nick Napzok
USS Jason
12/1964 to 9/1965
http://www.mrnapo.com/

Save an MSO

2006-07-14T20:27:00.000-07:00

From: Save an MSO Foundation
To: ronie-mooney-encs.us
Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 2004 10:28 AM
Subject: Ronie our MSO Brother

Your Dad would be very proud of what you have done.

My best to you and your family.

Ronie was very special to us as a friend and supporter of the Save an MSO Foundation and the Navy MSO Association.

Mike Warren
Founder & Director, Save an MSO Foundation
Co-Founder & Vice President, Navy MSO Association

WOODEN SHIPS, IRON MEN.

They don't deserve to be remembered,
they earned the right to be ...............

The memory of my ship is a debt of
honor to my shipmates and every
Iron Man that ever served onboard a
Wooden Ship owes that debt ..........

http://www.nmsoa.org/samforce

http://MineSweep.org/SAMFORCE-Donations

http://www.petitiononline.com/samforce/petition.html
Save an MSO for a Floating Museum Ship

( Please sign this petition )

USS Adroit Reunion

2006-07-14T20:16:00.000-07:00

From: Larry K. Fugh
To: ronie-mooney-encs.us
Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 2004 11:01 PM
Subject: Pic of your Dad

Met your Dad at the USS Adroit Reunion in 2001 in Wilmington. He was surely a warm and friendly individual and had a great sense of humor also. We then enjoyed his postings on our minesweep group. He's with God now and may he rest in peace.

Larry K. Fugh, Ex EM2
Mindiv 71 and 72
Long Beach, CA (1956-62)
Navy MSO Association
2005 Iron Man Reunion Chairman
MSO's Inflict, Fortify and Esteem

Minesweepers

2006-07-14T20:12:00.000-07:00

From: Joseph Marturano 3rd
To: ronie-mooney-encs.us
Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 2004 11:29 PM
Subject: Website

Thank you so much for sharing this website with Ronies friends and the MSO community and Brotherhood. We will miss Ronie, His friendly and respectful nature, I fondly recall a year or so back when he wrote me to ask for some items from New York for a report for one of the children, Later I received a card from the young lady thanking me for what I sent..But for Ronie, I would have sent anything I could. May God bless you all and help you find peace thru this loss, We will pray for you all. I lost my father in law the Day before Ronie passed, It was a very sad weekend for me.

Joe Marturano 3rd
EX-RM2 1979 - 1985
U.S. Navy Cold War Veteran
Webmaster/USS DETECTOR (MSO-429)
http://web.a-znet.com/delta4s/Detector429.html
USS DETECTOR MSO-429 Decommissioning Crew
NMSOA Membership Director
NMSOA Ships Store Director
http://www.nmsoa.org/portal.html
The Empire State-NY " Home of the Brave"
"We Don't Stop Playing Because we get Old......
We Get Old Because We Stop Playing ! ! "
http://www.petitiononline.com/samforce/petition.html
Save an MSO for a Floating Museum Ship
( Please sign this petition ).

Shipmates USS Vance

2006-07-14T20:07:00.000-07:00

Tuesday, May 11, 2004

Comment: Many Naval Officers knew and served with my father Ronie A. Mooney, ENCS (Retired Senior Chief Engineman). Dad passed away this past May 7, 2004. I am currently going through all I can find on Google, that my father left behind for messages and photographs to link to them on his website. I would appreciate hearing from any of his buddies, that may know of something to add for Dad.

http://www.ussvance.com/Vance/gestbook.htm

I am deeply sorry to hear of Ronnie's passing.
He sure did use Vance's site to find shipmates, and I hope he made contact with more than one.

I will enter this entry soon and fix the url to go to his series of listed entries.

Joe Betters
Webmaster
http://www.ussvance.com/Vance/gestidx_L_Z.htm#mooney

Chief Mooney

2006-07-14T16:45:00.000-07:00

From: George W Dean
To: ronie-mooney-encs.us
Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 2004 10:52 PM
Subject: Chief Mooney

Please permit my to offer my condolences in the loss of your father. The brotherhood of sweep sailors, always a comparatively small group, deeply feel the loss of one of our own. Your father was admired and respected by all who knew him.

George W Dean, Ex RD1
USS Bulwark MSO-425
Cuyahoga Falls, OH

The Vance

2006-07-14T16:43:00.000-07:00

Tuesday, May 11, 2004

You have my sincere condolences on the loss of your father. I did not know him, but I had heard of his name before. I know how you are grieving. I lost my wife, Miyo, just about three years ago.

I also served on the Vance in the same job of your father, Senior Chief Engineman.

I served in 1968 to 1969 and put her out of commission for the last time.........
I am planning to attend the 2004 Vance reunion to be held in Memphis......
I hope many of your father's shipmates contact you......
I wish you and your family all the best.........
Duane S Baumgartner ENCS USN-RET
Gold Hill, Oregon

---------------

I wish you and your entire family a Navy wish that I'm sure your father was familiar with: *I wish you Fair Winds and Following Seas*............
Duane

Bless Our Veterans

2006-07-14T16:42:00.000-07:00

Tuesday, May 11, 2004

I have just visited your site after approving it to my Webring, Bless Our Veterans. I was truly touched by the photos and their captions. My Grandfather served in the Navy and died while studying to be an electronics engineer. His highest rank was Chief Petty Officer in Radar according to my Grandmother who still misses him to this day.

Again, I was touched, and thank you.

Danielle

Honoring Ronie Mooney

2006-07-14T16:26:00.000-07:00

From: Bob Gladwin
To: ronie-mooney-encs.us
Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 2004 3:27 PM
Subject: Honoring Ronie Mooney

Margie and Family,

Please accept my condolences on the loss of your husband and father. He is free from pain and suffering and in a better place.

He will be missed by all of us as he was easy to talk to and could talk for hours.

Sincerely,

Bob Gladwin ex-RD3
Mechanicsburg, PA
Foundation Advisory Board Member
Save an MSO Foundation
NMSOA SECRETARY
POINTMAN FOR PA MSO GROUP
POINTMAN FOR USS LOYALTY MSO-457

http://www.nmsoa.org

http://www.nmsoa.org/samforce

http://www.minesweep.org/chainlocker

http://SAMFORCE-Donations.gotosite.biz/

http://www.petitiononline.com/samforce/petition.html

http://www.nmsoa.org/nmsoastores/

Senior Chief Mooney

2006-07-14T16:19:00.000-07:00

From: Barry Watt
To: ronie-mooney-encs.us
Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 2004 11:23 PM
Subject: Senior Chief Mooney

Please accept the condoleces of the Watt family for your loss ENCS Mooney was a brother to me as are all minesweep sailors

Hand Salute BGWATTMSC USN RET

From: ronie-mooney-encs.us
To: Barry Watt
Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 2004 8:52 PM
Subject: Re: Senior Chief Mooney

Thank you,

You Navy guys are wonderful.

From: Barry Watt
To: ronie-mooney-encs.us
Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 2004 1:36 PM
Subject: Re: Senior Chief Mooney

Your Dad was wonderful also as you well know

BGWatt USN RET

Your Dad

2006-07-14T15:57:00.000-07:00

From: ahmso509
To: ronie-mooney-encs.us
Sent: Thursday, May 13, 2004
Subject: Your Dad

I met Ronie about 4 years ago when he had a little stay in the hospital. He was such a great guy!

Your Dad attended the ADROIT reunion and made some instant friends who will always cherish the memories.

I have a couple of images of your Dad and Mom on my website if you would like to visit it.

I'm also attaching an image with this e-mail.

Also, you can view the reunion with all the images of him and his friends at:
http://www.mso509.com/reunion.html

I'm so proud I knew him.

Warmest regards,

Al Hines

Webmaster

USS ADROIT MSO 509
http://www.mso509.com/
THE RUNNER