page_title: Charles D. Griffin
section_title: Personal life
hierarchical_section_title: Charles D. Griffin / Personal life
caption_attribution_description: English: Tombstone of Admiral Charles Griffin in section 2 of Arlington National Cemetery.
context_page_description: Admiral Charles Donald Griffin was a four-star admiral in the United States Navy who served as commander in chief of United States Naval Forces Europe from 1963 to 1965 and as commander in chief of Allied Forces Southern Europe from 1965 to 1968.
context_section_description: Griffin married Camilla Yvonne Ganteaume on September 14, 1935; after her death at the age of 49 on August 10, 1963, he remarried to Marion Hopkins Schaefer on November 21, 1964. He and his first wife had two children: Linda Louise Griffin, and navy officer Charles Donald Griffin, Jr.
  After retiring from the navy, Griffin resided in Washington D.C., where he was a vestryman at St. Alban's Episcopal Church and a member of the Army and Navy Club and the Chevy Chase Club. He died of a heart attack at the age of 90 while playing golf at his summer residence, Bald Peak Colony Club, in Melvin Village, New Hampshire.
caption: Admiral Griffin rests in Arlington National Cemetery.
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