Daniel James Pfarr

Daniel J. Pfarr, 34, a Navy Corpsman decorated veteran of Operation Iraqi Freedom US Marine Corp and current college student passed away at his home in Crofton, MD on November 7, 2013. At the time of his death he was in the process of recovery from several major surgeries. Early life Dan was a longtime resident of Bowie, attending Saint Pius X regional school there and Archbishop Spalding High School thereafter. Dan was active in multiple sports while in Bowie. With both the Bowie Boys and Girls Club as well as Babe Ruth baseball teams his teams won county championships in every year they competed. He was additionally noted for accomplishments in both swimming and water polo competing in high school for both Spalding and the Naval Academy Juniors program. As a high school freshman his high school grabbed a third place team finish in the last ever MSA swimming championships. Dan was a multiple time Maryland All-Star at the individual championships as well as MD Gold Medal winner in the Maryland State games. In water polo, Dan traveled the country nationwide competing for the Navy program at the high school and sometimes men's open level in selected tournaments. Navy Career Dan entered the US Navy with a goal of moving toward a career in medicine and finished his initial milestone by graduating from Navy training as a corpsman at the Great Lakes facility in the spring of 2001. After 9-11 Dan moved to the USMC, 1/8 MEF based at Camp Leguene, NC., where he stayed until the start of Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2013. Dan was moved to the 2nd Marines, 2nd Tank Battalion who was deploying to Iraq where he served in combat through the latter part of July 2013. He and others in his unit received a Presidential Citation for becoming the first American military cross the Tigras river into Baghdad effectively completing the initial goal of the Iraqi plan. Dan spent the rest of his service commitment at Camp Leguene in the corpman role returning to Bowie in 2005. Since that time he had been pursuing his advanced education degree in the hopes of returning to medicine or work with Veterans affairs. Survivor include his family mother Blanche C. Pfarr of Crofton Father James C. Pfarr, of Bowie and sister Karen M. Pfarr of Baltimore Maryland. In memorial contributions may be made to Wounded Warrior Project in memory to Daniel James KC Pfarr.