After Ozzie put away his seabag in November of 1945, he and Violet settled in Connecticut, where he built their family home on farmland that had been owned by Violet’s father. They raised two daughters, Claudia and Marcia who gave him three grandchildren.  Ozzie worked as a salesman and service technician for a company in Portland, Connecticut that made custom machines for packaging.  Ozzie traveled all over the world setting up packaging systems and training factory workers.  He also worked as a machinist and in the 1950s he was co-owner of a tavern in East Hampton called “The Purple Cow.”  He played on baseball leagues for years and later took up golf.

In a 1988 letter to Pequot sailor Jim Hudlow, Quartermaster Bob Livingston wrote, “Ozzie was a lot of fun and certainly enjoyed life more than anyone I know.”  Ozzie made several attempts to organize a Pequot crew reunion but it never came to be. He passed away at 62 years of age in February of 1984.  His daughter Claudia remembers that he was a funny, smart, and kind father.  “One of my fondest memories is putting together a plastic model of a Navy ship, and my Dad would point out how it was similar to, and different from, the Pequot!”