USS Oklahoma Sailor Finally Comes Home-- Part 1

From the April 7, 2016, Hudson (Wis) Star-Observer "A sailor comes home, Duff Gordon laid to rest" by Randy Hanson.

Duff Gordon was buried March 30 at Willow River Cemetery in Hudson.  he was one of the 429 who died December 7, 1941, on the USS Oklahoma at Pearl Harbor.  He was 52 at the time, one of the oldest to die that day.

Many of the Oklahoma's sailors had only been in the Navy a year or less, and many still in their teens, but Mr. Gordon had already had a twenty-year Navy career and had also been in World War I.  After retirement, he entered the Naval Reserves and was in the 1940 call-up of all reservists.

On April 28, 1914, he was already 24 years and five months old when he enlisted in Minneapolis.  He had been born in Hudson on November 28, 1889 and grew up there.

Welcome Home, Sailor.  --GreGen