HomeTownAnnapolis.com April 7, 2007

James Stone

Retired Navy Cmdr. James M. Stone, 79, a longtime Silver Spring
resident, died of cancer March 31 at Brooke Grove Rehabilitation
Center in Sandy Spring.

Born on April 18, 1927, in Westbury, N.Y., Cmdr. Stone enlisted
in the Navy in 1945. He witnessed the atomic bomb tests at Bikini
Atoll in the Pacific and later received a fleet appointment to
the Naval Academy from which he graduated in 1952. While he was a
plebe, his first classman ordered him to escort a young woman
from New York City on a date. He married Audrey Stone six months
after his graduation.

After an initial tour on a destroyer he entered the submarine
service and was on five submarines. He became commanding officer
of the diesel submarine USS Cubera in 1966 and later served
overseas at NATO headquarters on the Mediterranean island nation
of Malta.

He moved to Silver Spring in 1970, retiring in 1977. Subsequently
he went on to work for the Vitro Corp., retiring again in 1990.

Cmdr. Stone attended St. John the Baptist Catholic Church in
Silver Spring and was an active member of the Knights of
Columbus.

In addition to his wife of 54 years, he is survived by five
children, Kevin Stone of Arnold, Ken Stone of St. Paul, Minn.,
Gary Stone of Albuquerque, N.M., Rick Wellbeloved-Stone of
Charlottesville, Va., and Tracy Stone-Manning of Missoula, Mont.;
and nine grandchildren.

Visitation will be from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. June 12 at Collins
Funeral Home, 500 University Blvd. West, Silver Spring. Services
will be at noon June 13 at St. John the Baptist Church, 12319 New
Hampshire Ave., Silver Spring. Burial will follow at 3 p.m. in
Arlington National Cemetery.