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Navy Gold Star Program Information & Resource Site

Navy Gold Star is the Navy’s official program for providing long-term support to surviving families of Sailors who pass while on Active Duty. If you are visiting this page because you are a surviving family member of a deceased service member, please accept our most heartfelt sympathy and gratitude for your loved one’s service and sacrifice in defending our nation . . .

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U.S. Navy
PO2
Ryan Daniel Burris
21 May 2015

He was born on June 8, 1991 at Good Samaritan Hospital in Downers Grove, IL, Ryan grew up in Lisle, IL and graduated High School in 2009. In HS he was a 3 sport athlete: Football, Wrestling and Throws for Track and Field. He enjoyed wresting best and was part of their winning team 2009. He was active with Boy Scouts. His favorite memories were made while participating with the 1776 Venture Crew. With them, he reenacted as a Loyalist for the Queen’s Royal Army. He would jokingly say, “Well someone has to do it!” He enjoyed reenacting very much and looked forward to continue once he returned home.

As a child, Ryan always wanted to join the service. In 2012 his dream came true when he was accepted in the US Navy where he proudly served as an Electronics Technician for Seal Team 7 in San Diego, CA. He was called to his first deployment and left home April of 2015 where he joined Operation Inherent Resolve. He was temporarily assigned to the Crisis Response Element of Joint Special Operations Task Force-Arabian Peninsula, Special Operations Command Central, US Central Command. There he died on May 21, 2015. He was posthumously promoted to PO2.

He is dearly missed by his parents Daniel and Karen; sister and brother in law, Tamara and Brett Rotelli; sister, Audrey Burris; niece and nephew, Guiliana and Nello Rotelli.

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U.S. Navy
Captain
Edmund B. Taylor Jr.
08 May 1972

Captain Edmund B. Taylor Jr was assigned as a chief of staff of Flotilla 11, Commander Cruiser Destroyer Group 7th Fleet. On May 8, 1972, he was a passenger aboard a helicopter attempting to make a night landing on the fantail of the USS Providence (clg-6). The helicopter crashed and fell overboard. 

Captain Taylor,Admiral Robinson and LCDR Leaver were lost in the crash and their remains were never located. They are listed with honor among the missing in action because no remains were found.

 

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U.S. Navy
AO3
Deavon C. Frazier
30 May 2022

AO3 Naval Petty Officer Deavon Christopher Frazier was an outstanding service man, son and father who gave his life in a  drowning to save a child who was drowning while on a canoe . He was a gentle soul a thespian who loved acting dancing and most of all he loved family and people. Mommy will always cherish and love you. I am so proud of you. You gave so we could live. I, your siblings, family and friends will always love you.

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U.S. Navy
AO3
Dominic "Dom" Deross
26 Dec 2022

As a kid Dominic had always talked about joining the military and in 2020, he made that happen. He was excited to see the world and serve his country. He was stationed in Lemoore, CA as an AO3 (posthumously) and attached to the USS Abraham Lincoln San Diego. He deployed in January 2022 to August 2022. 
Dom loved life and lived it to the fullest. He had a smile that lit up a room and loved to make people laugh. Somehow, he was able to make people feel included and welcome. It may be the protective instinct he had. He had many interest especially hiking, fishing, golfing, bonfires, kayaking and playing ice hockey. He is very loved and will be missed and never forgotten.
“See you in Valhalla" 

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U.S. Navy
PO3
Terrence “TJ” Salat II
07 Nov 2020

Kind, sensitive & funny; proud Navy brother to many; proud sibling to his 3 brothers; proud husband; gone too soon and missed immensely every day by his broken-hearted Mom… "Love you so much my T”

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U.S. Navy
MCPO
Andrew Kaloz
09 Feb 2010
Andrew “Andy” Kaloz was born and raised in Lansing, MI, where he graduated from Waverly High School. He joined the navy in 1987 and became an aviation mechanic, specializing in the E2C Hawkeye. In his spare time, Andy loved to golf and fish. Always “a good guy,” Andy looked out for others all the time, said his mother, Claudia. He was hard on himself and wanted to do the best he could at all times. He was tall from the get go - growing to a 6'5" man and carried himself proudly, she said. “Andy has been gone for 10 years and we all miss him as if it were yesterday.” Andy is remembered by his wife, Jeanne, two daughters, Lindsay and Samantha, grandsons, Jason and AJ, his brother Michael Kaloz and his family, and his sisters Barbara Olszewski and Nicole McGrath and their families, and his mother and father, Claudia and William.
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