- Rank: Chief Storekeeper
- Home Town: Hutchison, Kansas
- Date Of Birth: March 24, 1906
- Disposition:
- Family DNA on File:
CSKP Harold Lee Kagarice
Harold Lee Kagarice was a career Navy man.
Born at Hutchison, Kansas, on March 24, 1906, he joined the Navy on Dec. 22, 1924. He was a storekeeper and chief petty officer on the U.S.S. Arizona when he was killed in the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Dec. 7, 1941.
He was survived by his widow, Edith Ohler, whom he married in Oakland, California in 1932, and by a daughter, Shirley.
He was also survived by his mother, Grace Smith Kagarice, and six siblings. His father, Isaac, a farmer, died in 1928.
When he first enlisted he said he’d been working at Amarillo, Texas, since January 1923 as a laborer.
Sources: The Hutchinson (Kansas) News; Navy enlistment records; grave marker; Census records; marriage record; U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. This profile was researched and written on behalf of the U.S.S. Arizona Mall Memorial at the University of Arizona. Note: Navy enlistment records say he was born March 24, 1904, but a delayed birth certificate issued by the state of Kansas in 1938 says it was March 24, 1906. The 1910 Census said he was four.