The U.S. Navy fireman was died on board the USS Oklahoma during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941. He was laid to rest almost 80 years later in his hometown cemetery.
80 years after he died at Pearl Harbor, Minnesota hero is finally laid to rest at home
Neal Todd came home to be buried Saturday, July 10, in Akeley, after nearly 80 years on the Missing in Action list. 3:30 pm, Jul. 13, 2021 ×
Six U.S. Navy sailors pull Neal Todd s casket off the back of a horse-drawn funeral caisson for his burial with full military honors Saturday at the Akeley Cemetery. (Robin Fish/Enterprise, July 10, 2021)
AKELEY, Minn. If Neal Kenneth Todd had died last week, he would have been 101 years old.
Instead, the remains laid to rest Saturday, July 10, at the Akeley Cemetery were those of a 22-year-old U.S. Navy fireman who gave his life on Dec. 7, 1941, during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.