From the January 4, 2017, Pensacola (Florida) News Journal "Funeral service set for sailor killed at Pearl Harbor."
A service will be held at 11 a.m. Friday, January 6, at the Pensacola Naval Air Station Chapel for Walter Sollie who was in the USS Oklahoma's boiler room December 7, 1941. He died at age 37.
His DNA in bones was discovered to match a surviving niece, Betty (Tom) Tumipseed of Milton.
Mr. Solle was born in Myrtlewood, Alabama and grew up in Atmore. He enlisted in 1923. Service was aboard the USS Pruitt, Huron, Northampton, Maryland and lastly, the Oklahoma.
His remains will be buried at 12:30 p.m., Friday, at Barrancas National Cemetery.
Walter Solle was a Water Tender 1st Class.
Sixteen million served in the U.S. military during World War II. More than 400,000 died in the service of their country, including Mr. Sollie. There are still 73,104 unaccounted for, of which he was one until recently.
--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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