DATE: Sunday, July 20, 1997                 TAG: 9707200043

SECTION: LOCAL                   PAGE: B9   EDITION: FINAL 

DATELINE: CORONADO, CALIF.                  LENGTH:   37 lines

GLENN C. STOCK

Capt. Glenn C. Stock, 76, commander of one of the first ships that brought Marines to Da Nang at the outset of the Vietnam War and a Coronado resident for 25 years, died Thursday, July 10, 1997, at San Diego Naval Medical Center of a chronic pulmonary disease.

His helicopter transport, the Vancouver, was among three ships that took the first troops of the 9th Marine Expeditionary Brigade to Red Beach, just off Da Nang, South Vietnam, to begin their amphibious assault in 1965. Before the Marines landed, U.S. military forces had been there in an advisory role to help the South Vietnamese Army.

During his 30-year career in the Navy, Capt. Stock also took part in air-sea rescue missions during World War II in the Solomon Islands and Bismarck Archipelago. For more than a year in the early 1950s, he was executive office of the destroyer Sigourney, which was based in Long Beach. He served two assignments in the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations in Washington, D.C. His career also included an assignment in June of 1971 as commander of a naval mission in Columbia. He retired in 1973.

Born and raised in Chicago, Capt. Stock graduated in 1942 from Northwestern University. He was commissioned a Navy ensign in March 1943. He later studied at the U.S. Naval War College, the U.S. Navy Intelligence School and at George Washington University, where he earned a master's degree in international relations. He was an enthusiastic golfer and was active in the Retired Officers Association and Veterans of Foreign Wars.

His wife of more than 45 years, Marion McCall Stock, died five years ago. She was a native of Norfolk. Capt. Stock also lost a son, Glenn D. Stock to leukemia in the 1980s.

Survivors include N. Louise Moorman of Norfolk; A.J., Lisa and Kathryn Moorman of Chesapeake; John and Caroline Phillips and sons of Norfolk; Karen Perkins of Chicago, Ill. and Kris Perkins of Hermosa Beach, Calif. KEYWORDS: DEATH OBITUARY

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