October 12, 2016, Danbury News Times "Remains of sailor killed at Pearl Harbor returning home" by Michael Casey, AP.
Navy Fireman 3rd Class Edwin Hopkins of Keene, New Hampshire was one of 429 who died on the USS Oklahoma that day. He was just 19 years old.
His remains arrived Thursday in Boston and then he was flown to Dillant-Hopkins Airport in Keene (named in his honor) Visitation will be Friday and he will be buried Saturday at Woodland Cemetery in Keene, next to his parents Frank Hopkins Sr. and Alice Hopkins.
He was one of the 388 USS Oklahoma sailors whose remains were disinterred in 2015. So far about 30 have been identified.
Another one, Navy Seaman 2nd Class James M. Phipps of Ranier, Oregon, also has been identified and will be buried October 17 in Portland, Oregon.
Edwin Hopkins quit high school to join the military to learn a trade. He served on the Oklahoma with his brother Frank, who survived the attack but was also aboard the USS Hornet and USS Princeton later in the war. Both of these ships were also sunk by the Japanese.
Edwin was from Swanzey, not Keene.
So Great They Are Identifying Them. --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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