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Posted on: Sunday, October 26, 2008

WWII ensign interred in Portland

Associated Press

PORTLAND, Ore. — With his sister looking on, the ashes of Eldon Wyman have been interred in Portland — nearly 67 years after he died at Pearl Harbor.

Wyman was an ensign on the USS Oklahoma the morning of Dec. 7, 1941. He was among 429 from the ship who died.

He had been buried in an unknown's grave in Hawai'i until his remains were identified through the DNA of his sister, Kathleen Wyman.

After his death, she joined the Navy WAVES and eventually retired as a lieutenant commander.

She's now 94 and was at the service Friday that included military honors for her brother.