The posted excerpt is from the middle of Lieutenant Commander Nash’s story. Everyone should read the complete story at the Naval History site.
She was engaged to a naval ensign from USS Penguin, with the wedding date unfortunately set for Feb 1942. It never happened. The story doesn’t follow up on her fiance.
I was able to find records that USS Penguin was damaged and scuttled at Guam. Ensign Edwin A. Wood Jr. survived and was repatriated from captivity. That’s all I could find. I don’t know if Nash and Wood ever met again.