The remains of Durell Wade, a World War II Navy sailor killed at Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, will be at Pryor Funeral Home in Calhoun City for a service at 11 a.m. Friday, Dec. 7 — 77 years after he was killed.
Burial will follow at the North Mississippi Veterans Memorial Cemetery in Kilmichael.
The procession is expected to leave the funeral home about 11:30 a.m.
Everyone living on or near Mississippi 9 from Calhoun City to Eupora and on U.S. 82 from Eupora to Kilmichael is encouraged to line the highways waving flags as the procession passes by.
Wade, who was raised in the Slate Springs area, was among 429 men killed on the USS Oklahoma when torpedoes from Japanese aircraft struck the battleship, which capsized. He was 24.
Wade’s surviving family received news a few years ago that his remains may have been recovered. They submitted DNA for testing and learned last spring the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency had identified their relative’s remains.
