Howard Merton Coomber
Graduating
Class of 1921
Served in
World War II
Lieutenant
Howard Merton Coomber
Navy
Hometown
Kansas City, MO
Date of Birth
Location of Death
Okinawa, Japan
Date of Death
Location of Burial
Mount Moriah Cemetery, Kansas City, MO
More About Lieutenant Coomber
Lieutenant Howard Merton Coomber was born June 27, 1899, in Kansas City, Missouri. He enlisted and served in the US Naval Reserve during WWI.
In July of 1942, Coomber re-enlisted and spent a year-and-a-half as a customs officer in Samoa before being assigned as commander of the Yap Island group in modern-day Micronesia.
He took part in the Okinawa Gunto operations in the spring of 1945 and was killed on May 3, 1945, when the Marine Transport Vehicle he was on was hit by a bomb from a Japanese aircraft. Lieutenant Coomber is interred at Mount Moriah Cemetery in Kansas City, Missouri.
Mr. Coomber had been an attorney and operated the Coomber Realty & Investment Co., in Kansas City.