Rash's Surname Index
Notes for Aubrey III VANDEVER
Son of Aubrey Vandever Jr., and Margaret V. Braunstein.
Husband of Helen May (Hanby) Vandever.
As a child, he lived in Wilmington. In his adolescence his family lived in Baltimore, Denver, Ponca City, Okla., and Davenport, Iowa.
He was a 1936 graduate of Davenport High School.
After his family returned to Wilmington, he met his future wife, Helen May Hanby. They married on March 31, 1945.
Mr. Vandever enlisted in the U.S. Navy on Dec. 8, 1941, the day after Pearl Harbor, and was sent to Quonset Point, R.I. In late January 1942, he sailed on the U.S.S. Tyler, Operation BOBCAT, for the defense of the Society Islands and Australia. He also participated in the campaigns of the Solomon Islands, Gilbert Islands and Marshall Islands. In late 1944, he was sent to U.S. Naval Hospital in Portsmouth, Va. He was going back to the Pacific for the invasion of Japan when the country surrendered. He returned to Norfolk, Va., and was honorably discharged from the Navy on Dec. 26, 1947.
Mr. Vandever had begun work with the DuPont Co. at the Chambers Works, Deepwater, N.J., in 1940. After serving in the Navy, he returned to the DuPont Co., and retired in January 1977.
Mr. Vandever was a member of First Church of Christ, Scientist, Wilmington. He was a member of the Joseph Stahl American Legion Post 30, Wilmington Manor, in the 1950s, and also from 1975 to 1991.
He was a life member of Wilmington Manor Volunteer Fire Co., Oak Orchard-Riverdale American Legion Post 28 and the Rehoboth Beach Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 7447.
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