VFW Memorial: Remembering the life, death and legacy of Genaro Ochoa
BOSWELL, Okla. - Genaro "Jerry" Ochoa, age 90, of Boswell, died March 3, 2014 in Denison, Texas. Genaro Vargas Ochoa was born on January 24, 1924 in Jerome, Arizona. He lived there till the age of six, then his family moved to Hanford, California. He lived in Hanford until he joined the Navy in 1942 at the age of seventeen. He was first stationed in Barnstaple, England, Normandy in 1944, then in the South of France. He remained in Okinawa until the end of the war in Japan occupation duty...
