Remains of Saratoga County man killed in Korean War identified after 70 years | The Daily Gazette
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Photograph of late Walter Alvin Smead, surrounded by his Purple Heart and Ambassador for Peace medals and missing in action letters addressed to family members at his brother Doug Smead s home in Corinth on Tuesday, March 30, 2021. Smead s remains were recently discovered after he went missing in December of 1950 at Chosin Reservoir while serving in the Army.
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CORINTH – Douglas Smead has spent 70 years wondering about the fate of his oldest brother, a U.S. Army private who went missing during savage fighting in bitter cold weather around the Chosin Reservoir, in what is now North Korea, in the early months of the Korean War.
By STEPHEN WILLIAMS | The Daily Gazette | Published: April 4, 2021 CORINTH, N.Y. (Tribune News Service) Douglas Smead has spent 70 years wondering about the fate of his oldest brother, a U.S. Army private who went missing during savage fighting in bitter cold weather around the Chosin Reservoir, in what is now North Korea, in the early months of the Korean War. Walter A. Smead disappeared while his artillery unit was holding a hill, covering the retreat of other forces and then itself falling back. He was listed as missing in action. After three years, the military declared him presumed killed but his body was never found, and his fate in some sense remained unknown.
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Mildred R. Larson
Mildred R. Larson (Midge), age 91, formerly of Coburg Village Way, died peacefully with family at her side on Feb. 5, 2021 at Kingsway Arms Nursing Home after a long battle with dementia.
She was born on June 9, 1929, in McKeesport, Pa., and was the daughter of the late Clifford E. Karnes and the late Bernice A. Coleman Karnes.
She was predeceased by her husband C. Herbert Larson Jr. who passed Sept 20, 2011 and is interred at Saratoga National Cemetery (SNC).
Midge is survived by her son Gregg Larson with his wife Amy and their two daughters who live in Sonoma Calif., and her other son, Brett Larson with his wife Lori who live in Glenville, N.Y.
Remains of fallen National Guard members escorted through Watertown Hearses containing the remains of 2 members of the National Guard members were escorted by police and firefighters along Arsenal Street (Source: WWNY) By 7 News Staff | January 26, 2021 at 2:29 PM EST - Updated January 26 at 4:22 PM
WATERTOWN, N.Y. (WWNY) - A somber procession made its way through Watertown Tuesday.
Hearses containing the remains of 2 members of the New York Army National Guard were escorted by police and firefighters along Arsenal Street.
The remains of Chief Warrant Officer 5 Steven Skoda and Chief Warrant Officer 2 Daniel Prial were being taken to Watertown’s Hart & Bruce Funeral Home, which is contracted by the Army to prepare the deceased for final interment.