Lt. Cmdr. Harry Seeber Mossman

A memorial service with military honors for Lt. Cmdr. Harry Seeber Mossman will be held at 11 a.m. Monday, Aug. 30, at Tahoma National Cemetery in Kent.

Lt. Cmdr. Mossman was a member of squadron VA-52 from Whidbey Island Naval Air Station. His A-6 was lost in Vietnam with pilot Roger Lester Aug. 20, 1972. Through efforts of the Navy and many people in the United States and Vietnam, remains were recovered in the fall of 2003 and a positive identification was made through DNA testing in the spring of 2004.

Lt. Cmdr. Mossman was born in Augusta, Maine, to Eleanor Seeber Mossman and Julian Mossman. He was a standout student and athlete at Manhassett High School in New York. He attended Bates College where he met his wife, Rocky Karen Wild. He played football and ran track at Bates and was an English major, graduating in 1965.

His family includes widow Rocky Harvey of Bellevue; sons Tom Moore of Capitola, Calif., and Bill Moore of Yakima and grandsons Hunter and Harrison Moore of Yakima.

Lt. Cmdr. Mossman enjoyed his family, sports, chess, reading and writing. He left a letter to his children. In it, he tried to sum up the fatherly advice he wanted to give his sons when they grew older. He wrote about his beliefs and values and emotions that are common to everyone, and he wrote that it was the best he could do at the moment.

“Many people have learned things from the dead individual, whether by example of his deeds or the conscious attempts he made to teach his family and friends to accept life, or chance words that struck home. In some small way, living people share parts of his sould, conscious or otherwise.”

Arrangements by Tuell-McKee Funeral Home, Tacoma.