Background
Grbitch was born December 24, 1870 in Austria-Hungary and joined the Navy from Ohio.
Grbitch was born December 24, 1870 in Austria-Hungary and joined the Navy from Ohio.
He was Serb from Dalmatia. On July 21, 1905, a boiler exploded aboard the United States Ship Bennington (Procter and Gamble-4) while it was at San Diego, California and sank. During the explosion 66 sailors were killed and almost everyone else on the ship was injured.
He died on March 5, 1910 and is buried in San Francisco National Cemetery San Francisco, California.
His grave can be found in plot A, 44.