Editing Chester W. Nimitz (section)

==Personal life==
[[File:Chester Nimitz at National Portrait Gallery IMG 4591.JPG|thumb|Nimitz as he appears at the [[National Portrait Gallery (United States)|National Portrait Gallery]] in [[Washington, D.C.]]]]

Nimitz married Catherine Vance Freeman (22 March 1892 – 1 February 1979) on 9 April 1913, in [[Wollaston, Massachusetts]].<ref name="navy-ship-nimitz" /> Nimitz and his wife had four children:
# Catherine Vance "Kate" (22 February 1914, Brooklyn, NY – 14 January 2015)<ref name=Potter-p125>Potter. – p. 125.</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Catherine Nimitz Lay, 100|url=http://www.capecodtimes.com/article/20150117/OBITUARIES/150119546|website=[[Cape Cod Times]]|access-date=9 June 2017}}</ref>
# [[Chester Nimitz Jr.|Chester William "Chet" Jr.]] (1915–2002)<ref name=Potter-p125 /><ref>February 17, 1915 – January 3, 2002</ref>
# Anna Elizabeth "Nancy" (1919–2003)<ref>Potter. – p. 131.</ref><ref>September 13, 1919 – February 19, 2003.</ref>
# Mary Manson (1931–2006)<ref>Potter. – p. 150.</ref><ref>June 17, 1931 – February 27, 2006</ref>

Catherine Vance graduated from the [[University of California, Berkeley]], in 1934,<ref name=Potter-p159>Potter.  pp. 158–59.</ref> became a music librarian with the [[District of Columbia Public Library|Washington D.C. Public Library]],<ref>Potter. – p. 165.</ref> and married US Navy Commander James Thomas Lay (1909–2001<ref>January 6, 1909 – September 13, 2001.</ref>), from St. Clair, Missouri, in Chester and Catherine's suite at the Fairfax Hotel in Washington, D.C., on 9 March 1945.<ref>Potter.  p. 366.</ref> She had met Lay in the summer of 1934 while visiting her parents in Southeast Asia.<ref name=Potter-p159 />

[[Chester Nimitz Jr.]] graduated from the [[US Naval Academy]] in 1936 and served as a submariner in the Navy until his retirement in 1957, reaching the (post-retirement) rank of rear admiral; he served as chairman of [[PerkinElmer]] from 1969 to 1980.

Anna Elizabeth ("Nancy") Nimitz was an expert on the [[Economy of the Soviet Union|Soviet economy]] at the [[RAND Corporation]] from 1952 until her retirement in the 1980s.

Sister Mary Aquinas (Nimitz) joined the [https://sanrafaelop.org/ Dominican Sisters of San Rafael], working at the [[Dominican University of California]]. She taught biology for 16 years and was academic dean for 11 years, acting president for one year, and vice president for institutional research for 13 years before becoming the university's emergency preparedness coordinator. She held this job until her death, due to cancer, on 27 February 2006.

Nimitz was also a [[Freemasonry|Freemason]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=FAMOUS MASONS |url=http://www.mastermason.com/gsl383/famousmasons.htm |access-date=4 November 2024 |website=www.mastermason.com}}</ref>