He briefly considered a career as a mortician, but instead decided to enroll in Salinas Junior College, receiving his Associate's degree there in 1939.
•
In the Summer of 1947, Voris was attached to the Naval Bureau of Aeronautics in Washington, D.C. (where he spent the next two years); he also married his high school sweetheart, Thea.
•
Upon his retirement from the Navy, Captain Voris went to work for the Grumman Corporation in Bethpage, New York, assisting in the development of the Navy's F-14 Tomcat and NASA's Lunar Module.
There are pictures of 27 of the unit's Aces including Roy "Butch" Voris, later to become Blue Angel 1 in the original Blue Angels flight demonstration team, Connie Hargreaves, who became an Ace in a Day, and Wilbur "Spider" Webb, another Ace in a Day.
Roy Marlin Voris (1919–2005), American aviator and World War II flying ace
Roy Rogers | Roy Orbison | Roy Lichtenstein | Roy Thomas | Roy Haynes | Roy Clark | Arundhati Roy | Roy Jenkins | Roy Carr | Roy Dupuis | Rob Roy | Roy E. Disney | Roy Castle | Roy Barnes | Roy Jones, Jr. | Roy Harper | Roy Blunt | Siegfried & Roy | Roy Scheider | Roy Lassiter | Roy Hargrove | Roy Chapman Andrews | Roy Williams | Roy Thomas Baker | Roy of the Rovers | Roy Hattersley | Roy Emerson | Roy Acuff | Reena Roy | Roy Romer |