As reported in the Santa Barbara News-Press, LTC George Anton (Retired), KA6NBA, passed away after a lengthy illness on 6 November 2002 in Santa Barbara.

Having served in the Signal Corps in WW-II, he has long been an advocate of Amateur Radio, and his last overseas asignment was providing communictions for General McArthur near Tokyo, Japan, during the occupation of Japan....

Further details of his life are in his Obituary in the Tuesday, 12 November 2002, issue of the News-Press...he was 84 years old.

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