From September 19, 2016, Wichita Eagle (Kansas) by Beccy Tanner.
Nearly 75 years after Lewis Lowell Wagoner was declared missing following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, his remains have been identified.
He was one of those lost that day on the USS Oklahoma. Now, he will be coming home and buried next to his his brothers at the Whitewater cemetery. This thanks to DNA technology.
Lewis Wagner was born on Kansas Day -- Jan. 29-- 1921 in Missouri. Shortly afterwards, his family moved to Whitewater, Kansas, where he was the oldest of eight boys. He was 20 when he died.
Since Pearl Harbor, the family had become friends with two other Pearl Harbor survivors from the USS Oklahoma, Arthur Dunn and Paul Aschbrenner, both of whom have since passed away.
--GreGen
The USS North Carolina (BB-55) My all-time favorite warship. As an elementary school student in North Carolina, I donated nickels and dimes to save this ship back in the early sixties.
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