William Kneeland Gallagher 1940-2008: Burial at Sea

Tuesday, April 15, 2008

Burial at Sea

Our father was a sailor. It was clear to us that we should take him sailing one last time in one of the bays he loved. We placed his ashes in the water at 14:48 on April 11 2008.

Bill writes: We scattered him to the bay and committed his remains to the currents.
Bay currents carry water in and out of the bay daily and the currents outside the bay run down the coast and around the world. He would have loved the day and will now be forever traveling the world with the sea.

Robb Kane wrote down the GPS coordinates for us:
37 deg 50.132 min N
122 deg 22.799 min W

Nate found the coordinates on Google map:

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=37.835533333333,+-122.3799833333333&ie=UTF8&ll=37.839072,-122.396622&spn=0.26083,0.547943&z=11&iwloc=addr


Metric GPS:
37.83553333, -122.37998333

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