John Yoho '29 in the Lucky Bag: "AT THE tender age of seventeen, honest John, the rambling derelict, cut loose from his Oregon anchorage, and sailed free and unhampered into the Severn, where he dropped the hooks to linger. Tall, blonde, and bland, and possessing that intangible appeal which has invariably caused the tidal waves of emotion to rise in the hearts of the eternal feminine, his romances have bidden fair to take him above the apprentice class. When the bludgeons of fate have fallen all around us, our cousin has always displayed the most unruffled and oblivious tranquility — undisturbed and unfettered by Executives, Academics, and other paltry matters."
John was commanding officer of Scouting Squadron (VS) 9 when his aircraft crashed near Norfolk, Virginia on January 6, 1943 -- 77 years ago today. His successor as commanding officer, Robert Donaldson '34, was lost the following month, and his younger brother, Jud Yoho '36, was killed in action in July of that year when USS Runner (SS 275) was sunk in the Pacific.
John was survived by his wife, stepson, and parents.
https://usnamemorialhall.org/index.php/JOHN_R._YOHO,_CDR,_USN
