A Holyoke sailor, one of 98 men of the battleship USS California killed in the Pearl Harbor attack Dec. 7, 1941, is returning having been identified through modern DNA technology.
It was a dozen years ago that the Navy asked for DNA samples from surviving relatives of WWII veteran Merle Hillman who was killed in the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. He had been one of 25 unknowns from the battleship USS California interred at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in Hawaii.
HILDA SUE HAYES, 84, began her celebration in the presence of her Lord on August 30, 2023. She was born on July 22, 1939, in Huntington, W.Va. She was the
Marie Magdelyn Drolshagen, age 95, passed away on Friday, August 25, 2023 and will be remembered as a hard worker, her love of travel and one who always put everyone