Pearl Harbor Casualty Returns Home to Lake Charles After 85 Years - American Press

Pearl Harbor casualty returns home to Lake Charles after 85 years - American Press

Nearly 85 years after making the ultimate sacrifice at Pearl Harbor, Lake Charles native Joseph Ucline Conner is finally home. His remains arrived at Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston on Thursday and were escorted by police and an honor guard to Hixon Funeral Home on Ryan Street. Conner, a fireman 1st Class aboard the battleship USS Utah, was killed during Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, the event that drew the United Stat…

Lake Charles sailor killed in the attack on Pearl Harbor identified, returning home to Louisiana

Lake Charles native and United States Navy Fireman First Class Joseph Conner died at 26 yearsold while aboard the USS Utah during the Dec. 7.For decades, Joseph Conner was buried in among 13 other “unknowns” from the USS Utah at the at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in Hawaii.Now, after all of those years and years of work, Joseph Conner is coming back to Lake Charles and will be buried around noon on Saturday at Prien Memorial Pa…