MILITARY SPOTLIGHT
Kay Khrone Knows Only Navy Life By Linda L. Austin Kay Khrone is immersed in the Navy life, starting with her father, Captain Quinn, who began Saturdays with the white glove inspection of her bedroom looking for a dust spot she may have missed. After a circuitous route, she joined the Navy, married Ted Khrone, and raised two sons who were in the Navy. One room of her Coronado home is decorated with each wall dedicated to the plaques and awards of the four Khrones. As a child, she looked at the moves as, “Well, I thought it was an adventure, meeting new people.” The family lived in Japan, Hawaii, Washington, DC, and she graduated from Granby High School in Norfolk, VA. Khrone retained her outlook through her college years starting at George Washington University before the family moved to Hawaii. “And at the last minute, I said, “Oh, well, maybe I need to go, and so I went with them across country. We took the SS Lurline to Hawaii. Yes, the five-day luxury cruise back then. That’s how they got you there if you were a senior officer. My dad by then was a captain, and that was great. Then I spent a semester at the University of Hawaii. I came back and graduated from George Washington, all in Not so good with Dad, however, who
full. With her mind geared to go military,
From college, she joined the family in
reminded her with the waitress job, “You
she switched to the Navy who had an im-
Boston and “got a great job as a cocktail
haven’t picked a career with much upward
mediate opening.
waitress in Framingham, Mass. And I
mobility.” Not wanting to be under the
Khrone has funny stories about her start
was very happy doing that because I was
influence of her father, she decided to join
in the Navy. When she saw her first room,
making good money, and… I had a lot of
the Air Force, but when the date to report
sparse with a bunk bed, “My mother
social contacts. All was good.”
arrived, she was informed that the class was
comes in to see it and she says, ‘Oh look,
four years.” Her degree was in drama.
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